MALI RENAMES COLONIAL FRENCH STREET NAMES. (PHOTO).

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 Mali renames colonial French street names Mali followed Burkina Faso and Niger on Wednesday in renaming streets and squares in its capital to get rid of their French colonial names, AFP reported. Streets bearing the names of members of France's colonial administration have been rebaptised in Bamako, according to a decree by the junta chief. Cedeao Avenue (the French acronym for the Economic Community of West African States or ECOWAS) is also now named after a new strategic confederation that Mali has formed with Burkina Faso and Niger – the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). In all, nearly 25 names have been replaced, among them boulevards, streets, squares and public establishments. Niger and Burkina Faso have already made several changes to street and monument names in the last two years. In October, Niger renamed several historic sites in its capital Niamey which previously bore references to old colonial master France. Mali has been ruled by the military since back-to-back coups ...

KWARA STATE ANNOUNCES MASS BURIAL FOR UNCLAIMED CORPSES, GIVES TWO-WEEK NOTICE. (PHOTO).


 Kwara State Announces Mass Burial for Unclaimed Corpses, Gives Two-Week Notice


The Kwara State government has announced plans to conduct a mass burial for all unclaimed bodies currently stored at the Kwara State University Teaching Hospital in Ilorin. 


Due to overcrowding in the hospital's morgue, the state has issued a two-week notice to the public, urging families to claim their deceased relatives. After this period, the hospital will proceed with a mass burial to decongest the facility. The bodies, some of which have been there for over a decade, were primarily brought in from robbery scenes and traffic accidents.

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