Around Africa

A GHANAIAN lawmaker, Kennedy Agyapong, has been accused of the murder of a journalist, Ahmed Hussein-Suale, who was shot dead by unknown gunmen on Wednesday night in Accra. Ahmed was an associate of Anas Aremeyaw, a Ghanaian investigative…
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PARTS of the Democratic Republic of Congo erupted in jubilation on Thursday following the emergence of Felix Tshisekedi, the candidate of the opposition Union for Democracy and Social Progress, as the winner of the country's presidential…
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PRESIDENT of the Africa Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, says Africa's economy would grow in leaps and bounds if the same resources invested in men were invested in women. Adesina, a former Minister of Agriculture in Nigeria,…
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THE finance minister of South Africa, Nhlanhla Nene, has resigned from office after admitting meeting the Gupta family members, who have been accused of corruption. The Guptas, a well-known business family in South Africa, were accused of…
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THE news of the demise of former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Anan, was broken by his family on Saturday, throwing the whole of Africa and the world in a state of mourning. "It is with immense sadness that the Annan family…
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TOP Ghanaian investigative reporter, Anas Aremeyaw, was nearly lynched by a mob in the Northern region of Malawi while investigating mysterious murders in an interior part of the southern African country. The investigation, titled …
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Zimbabwe has officially applied to rejoin the Commonwealth of Nations after 15 years of non-membership, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa also invites the organisation's member-states to send observers to its general elections in…
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China’s presence in the continent is creating an impression of a new saviour complex – the second largest economy in the world has come to uplift Africa from infrastructural poverty.  China seems to be willing to help African…
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Ugandans have begun a social media campaign calling for the resignation Onesimus Twinamasiko, a member of parliament who said there is nothing wrong if men beat their wives. Twinmasiko, representing Bugangaizi East constituency, made the…
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Two Burundi officials have been imprisoned after Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burndi, was allegedly "roughed up" in a football game, BBC reports. Nkurunziza is a 'born-again' Christian and loves to travel around Burundi with his own…
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