January, 2017

• 25 January

  SPD’s Martin Schulz to run against Angela Merkel in German election

  The former European Parliament president, Martin Schulz, is to be the candidate of the Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) in its bid to unseat Chancellor Angela Merkel in this year’s election. Schulz should be officially confirmed at a meeting on Sunday, after the party’s leader, Sigmar Gabriel decided to stand aside. The SPD has been in government with Merkel’s Christian …

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• 24 January

  “My general advice to Africans is to aim higher than doing odd jobs,” says Ibironke Ola-Oni (42) on being successful in Germany

  I am the daughter of the well-known Nigerian human rights activist Comrade Oladipo Ola-Oni. My family originated from Ibadan, Nigeria, and I have been living in Germany since 1992. In Nigeria I was motivated by the way my best friend spoke the German language. It fascinated me. I developed so much affection for it that my dad applied for me …

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• 23 January

  Gambia: No proof that Jammeh looted treasury before departing, says President Barrow’s spokesman

  There are no facts yet to back the widely circulated claims that Gambia’s ex-ruler Yahya Jammeh looted millions of dollars from the country’s treasury before leaving for exile, a spokesman of President Adama Barrow has revealed. Speaking on BBC Newsday late night programme on Sunday from Banjul, Halifa Sallah, the chief spokesman for Gambia’s new government, said no government institution …

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• 23 January

  Nigerian 12-year-old girl creates location app to help lost children

  It has not been the most positive of times in Nigeria considering the current economic climate, but every now and then a story will pop up and lift the spirits of the country. Tomisin Ogunnubi from Lagos has provided such a story for her nation in Answers Africa. The 12-year-old girl from Lagos has developed an app to solve a …

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• 23 January

  NPP Germany to celebrate Nana Akufo-Addo’s victory in Düsseldorf

  Members of the German chapter of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), which won Ghana’s presidential election in December, will celebrate their victory on Saturday, 11 February. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on his third attempt defeated incumbent President John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress at the 7 December election, marking the first time in Ghana’s history that a sitting president …

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• 23 January

  FULL TEXT: The Agreement that ex-Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh, signed with ECOWAS before agreeing to step down and leave the country

  Gambia’s former president, Yahya Jammeh, finally left Banjul, the country’s capital, Saturday (21 January) night into a new life in exile in Equatorial Guinea. Before agreeing to step down and leave the country to allow the new president, Adama Barrow, to take over, Jammeh signed a Joint Agreement with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), African Union (AU) …

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• 22 January

  New era begins in Gambia as Yahya Jammeh leaves for life in exile

  After a military standoff and a flurry of diplomatic activities following last month’s presidential election, former President Yahya Jammeh finally left The Gambia late Saturday for a new life in exile. To avoid military confrontation with Senegalese-led ECOWAS troops, he had agreed on Friday to step down and leave the country after two days of marathon negotiations with Presidents Alpha …

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• 21 January

  Gambian refugees in Germany react to crisis at home

  Gambian refugees across the world are following the political crisis in their home country with both apprehension and hope. DW’s Daniel Pelz met some of them in Germany’s capital Berlin. General’s hands were glued to his smartphone, even when he spoke. “I am so scared. I am always thinking about Gambia, about what’s happening next,” the 30-year-old refugee from The Gambia said in …

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• 21 January

  FULL SPEECH: Why I Stepped Down As President Of The Gambia, by Yahya Jammeh

  Fellow Gambians, my first preoccupation, as president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces and a patriot and the most sacred at that is to preserve at every instance and in every circumstance the lives of Gambians and this is a duty I hold sacrosanct. I have always pride for peace and security of our nation and Africa. During this entire …

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• 21 January

  BREAKING! Yahya Jammeh finally agrees to step down and leave Gambia

  “I have decided today in good conscience to relinquish the mantle of leadership of this great nation with infinite gratitude to all Gambians,” Yahya Jammeh said in a late night address on state television yesterday [Friday, 20 January]. The man who has ruled The Gambia for the past 22 years has finally agreed to give up power and leave the …

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