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Refugee girls train during a session at the football pitch in the Minawao Refugee camp in Maroua. The girls, ranging in age from 15 to 20, fled with their families to Cameroon years ago, as Boko Haram jihadists wreaked havoc in their country. At a refugee camp in Minawao, in Cameroon’s Far North region, the girls took up football, forming a team with whatever equipment came to hand. — AFP photos

‘Incredible’: Refugee girls Join Africa football fiesta
IKOYI, Nigeria: Rescue workers search for survivors still trapped under the rubble at the site of the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos yesterday. - AFP n

Relatives desperate for news after Lagos building collapse
GUSAU, Nigeria: A group of girls previously kidnapped from their boarding school in northern Nigeria arrived yesterday at the Government House in Gusau, Zamfara State upon their release.-AFP n

All 279 kidnapped Nigerian girls freed
Nine Nigerian states in the oil region rake in trillions of naira (billions of dollars) every year thanks to huge payments mandated from the central government and oil majors.

Nigerian oil agency under scrutiny
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KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah takes a group photo with senior officials and dignitaries during the Fourth Dushanbe Conference. - KUNA
Kuwait urges nations to unite against terrorism, extremism
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ALMORA: This handout photo shows people at the site of a bus accident, after it fell into a gorge at Almora district in India’s Uttarakhand state. - AFP
36 die as bus crash in Indian Himalayas
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Singapore Airlines Airbus A350-900 lands in Singapore International Changi airport on March 3, 2016. --AFP
Singapore Airlines to spend $800m to retrofit planes
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Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah
Kuwait calls for systematic plan to nip terrorism in bud
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J Sudhakar, a leader and husband of a local councillor, distributes sweets after offering prayers for Kamala Harris at the Sri Dharmasastha temple in her ancestral village Thulasendrapuram in Tamil Nadu. -- AFP
Harris’ ancestral village in India to pray for her victory