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Love, deception and the real lives of Nigeria's romance fraudsters

In tonight's edition, France pulls all of its diplomats out of Burkina Faso in a tit-for-tat move after Ougadougou cut ties with Paris last month. Also, in Tanzania, young people are planning on taking to the streets for an anti-government protest on Tuesday. And Lagos's Yahoo Boys are behind a lucrative but heartbreaking industry of online love scams: after his mother was sucked in, journalist Carlos Barragan uncovered a complex and uncomfortable web of loneliness, deceit, and betrayal.

06 Jul 2026, 20:28 UTCSource: France24Original source

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