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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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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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