AFRICA
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Tanzania President John Magufuli is dead
Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli is dead. In a televised address on wednesday night, Tanzania vice-president Samia Suluhu Hassan said…
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Mozambique militants ‘beheading children’
Aid agency Save the Children says Islamist militants are beheading children as young as 11 in Mozambique’s northern province of…
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COVID-19: ‘No evidence’ of AstraZeneca jab problems – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said there is no evidence that incidents involving blood clots are caused by the…
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Kenya opposition leader Raila Odinga contracts coronavirus
Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has been placed under quarantine after returning positive tests for coronavirus on Thursday evening. Mr.…
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Nigeria shuts all secondary schools in Niger state
Authorities in Nigeria’s Niger state have shut all public secondary schools for two weeks from Friday. Hajiya Hannatu Jibrin Salihu…
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Cote d’Ivoire PM Hamed Bakayoko dies at 56
Prime Minister of Cote d’Ivoire Hamed Bakayoko died at 56 in Germany on Wednesday (11 March), according to a government…
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UK “plans to cut millions in aid” to some African countries
The British government is planning to “slash hundreds of millions of pounds” to five individual African countries and the Sahel,…
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AfDB named world’s best multilateral financial institution for 2021
Global Finance has named the African Development Bank (AfDB) the best multilateral financial institution in the world, global recognition of…
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Zambia to probe Chinese man’s ‘racist’ trolley ride
The authorities in Zambia say they are considering deporting a Chinese national after a video shared online showed him riding…
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Kenya bans maize from neighbours over cancer fears
The authorities in Kenya have banned maize imports from neighbouring Uganda and Tanzania over safety concerns, media outlets in the…
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