Africa
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285Africa’s youngest billionaire, Dewji, kidnapped in Tanzania
Reports have it that Africa’s youngest billionaire, Mohammed Dewji, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam....
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Sierra Leone cancels $400m China funded airport project
The government of Sierra Leone has cancelled a $400million (£304m) Chinese-funded project to build a new airport outside the country’s capital in...
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Zimbabwe fires entire revenue board
The Zimbabwean government has fired the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) board with immediate effect. The Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli...
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Tourism: Rwanda threatens to shut hotels, night clubs, restaurants, others, over non-compliance
The Rwanda Development Board (RBD) on Wednesday stated that tourism companies and establishments operating in the country risk getting shut down if...
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South Africa legalises use of marijuana in private
South Africa’s highest court on Tuesday legalised the use of marijuana by adults in private places. In a unanimous ruling, judges also legalised...
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Imprisoned Rwandan presidential aspirant, Victoire Ingabire, regains freedom
Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire has been freed from jail. Her unexpected release occurred on Saturday after President Paul Kagame approved a...
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Tanzania bans artificial nails, eyelashes for female lawmakers as President asks women to stop using birth control
Female lawmakers with artificial nails and false eyelashes have been banned from Tanzania’s parliament. Citizen Tanzania newspaper quoted Job Ndugai, the Speaker...
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Uganda deports American who founded NGO to help needy children
Uganda has deported an American national who is a co-founder of ShuleFoundation, a charity organisation that has been helping needy children access...
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19 killed as plane crashes into lake in South Sudan
Nineteen people were killed when a small passenger plane crashed into a lake as it tried to land in thick fog in...
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Mnangagwa appoints new ministers in Zimbabwe (SEE FULL LIST)
President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe on Friday appointed members of his cabinet. In a tweet, the president said he appointed a “diverse,...
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South Africa slips into recession
South Africa’s economy has officially slipped into a technical recession, a false start for President Cyrul Ramaphosa who has spent far less...
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Crocodile eats woman, 5-month-old baby in Uganda
A crocodile attacked and ate a woman and her 5-month-old baby, last Friday. The woman had gone to fetch water from a...
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White workers in South Africa to strike over share scheme offer to Black staff
Workers from South Africa’s mainly white solidarity union started a “go-slow” protest at petrochemicals firm Sasol over a share scheme offered exclusively...
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Miss Universe Zambia goes into hiding after stabbing white lover
Newly crowned Miss Universe Zambia, Melba Shakabozha, has been declared wanted by the police in Lusaka, for reportedly stabbing her white lover....
