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Eye on Africa - Nigeria's gasoline pump prices rise by 65%, highest in Africa

France24 · · 128 words · By Clémence WALLER; Antonia Cimini; Emily BOYLE; Bryan QUINN
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“Nigeria's gasoline pump prices rise by 65%, highest in Africa”
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Wikipedia entries about Nigeria provide general information about the country's geography, football team, and religion but contain no data about gasoline prices or price increases. No cross-references or web results were provided to corroborate the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of 923,769 …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Nigeria national football team represents Nigeria in international men's football. Governed by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), they are three-time Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) winners, wit…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Islam and Christianity are the two main religions practiced in Nigeria. The country is home to some of the world's largest Muslim and Christian populations, simultaneously. Nigeria is divided roughly …
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“the Democratic Republic of Congo's armed forces begin a disarmament push against the FDLR, a militia linked to the Rwandan genocide in 1994”
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Wikipedia entries about the FDLR, DRC history, and mining industry describe the group's existence and economic context but contain no information about ongoing disarmament campaigns by the DRC's armed forces.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (French: Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda, FDLR; Kinyarwanda: Ingabo za demokarasi zo kubohoza u Rwanda, IDKR) is an armed rebel group ac…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The earliest known human settlements in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo date back to the Middle Stone Age, approximately 90,000 years ago. The first 'states', such as the Kongo, the L…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The mining industry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: Industrie minière de la République Démocratique du Congo) is a major global supplier of minerals including cobalt, copper, diamonds…
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“a mine owner has reached an understanding with illegal miners, allowing them limited access to his property once formal operations end for the day”
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Wikipedia entries about South Africa and its demographics provide no information about mining agreements between legal and illegal miners. No cross-references or web results were provided to support this specific claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 miles) of coastline that stre…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — South African may relate to: The nation of South Africa South Africans South African Airways South African English South African people Languages of South Africa Southern Africa
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — White South Africans are South Africans of European descent. In linguistic, cultural, and historical terms, they are generally divided into the Afrikaans-speaking descendants of the Dutch East India C…
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