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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 countries to…
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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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Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa, has resigned from office. He announced his "immediate resignation" on Wednesday after the ruling ANC party threatened to eject him from office via a parliamentary vote of no confidence.…
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The Government of Botswana has queried the Ambassador of United States of America to the country over comments attributed to Donald Trump, which described African countries as "shithole countries". According to a statement by…
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An outbreak of a ‘lethal virus’ - Marburg - clinically similar to Ebola with no known cure has broken out in Uganda, health chiefs have announced. The virus is one of the ‘most deadly’ pathogens in existence as it kills up to 88 per cent…
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The plague in Madagascar — "the deadliest and most rapid form of plague" — suspected by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be Pneumonic, could spread to nine other African countries: South Africa, Seychelles, La Reunion,…
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The Presidential election in Liberia is already under way, a poll that will see the country's first transfer of power from one democratically elected leader to another in over 70 years. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first…
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Seven Kenyan schoolgirls were killed after their school dormitory was engulfed by fire in the early hours of Saturday. According to Reuters, 10 other female students have been hospitalised as a result of the fire incident. Fred…
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