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LAGOS, Nigeria – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a bailout of more than $2 billion for states to resolve a crisis that has left hundreds of thousands of workers unpaid for months. A government statement Tuesday says the money will come from $2.1 billion in dividends recently paid by the …

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run agency says Tahsin Sahinkaya, the last surviving member of a junta that led Turkey’s 1980 military coup, has died. He was 90. Anadolu says former air force commander Sahinkaya died at a military hospital in Istanbul on Thursday. The cause of death was not immediately …

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – An Ethiopian police official says police killed 30 armed people who tried to illegally enter the country’s territory from Eritrea. Assefa Abiyu of the Ethiopian Federal Police Commission told the state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporation that Ethiopian forces have taken measures against fighters believed to be trained …