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7-day truce agreed between Mozambique’s opposition and ruling parties

 Afonso Dhlakama of the Mozambican Resistance Movement (RENAMO) speaking to the media after voting in Maputo in 2014. Photo Credit: Reuters The people of Mozambique...

Grace Mugabe settles Military Debt to China With 35 Elephants

Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe has reportedly been embroiled in yet another controversy after it emerged that she allegedly used the country's animals to...

One South African Soldier killed, two injured in Congo gun-battle

A South African soldier on a United Nations mission is reported to have been killed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday. Two...

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe confirmed by his party to run for president again in 2018

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was confirmed on Saturday as his party's sole candidate for the next presidential election in 2018, when he will be...

Tanzanian police charge Jamii Forums founder

Maxence Melo, a director of Jamii Forums message boards. Photo Credit: JAMII FORUMS The co-founder of a Tanzanian whistle-blowing website has been charged with obstructing an...

Ex-Guantanamo detainee in Uruguay flies to South Africa

A former Guantanamo prisoner who was resettled in Uruguay but has asked to leave flew to South Africa on Thursday as a tourist, a...

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe decries party indiscipline

President Robert Mugabe leaves after delivering his State Of the Nation address at Parliament in Harare, Zimbabwe on December 6, 2016. Photo Credit: Reuters.    Zimbabwean President...

U.N., Malawi to explore use of drones to deliver faster aid in crises

The U.N. children's agency and Malawi's government are teaming up to test whether drones could make aid delivery faster and more effective during humanitarian...

New glasses for Malawians for $1

Chilungamo Chisuse is a locally trained Malawian optician whose business has been transformed by a German NGO called One Dollar Glasses. As the name suggests, he now...

Troops and court needed fast to avert South Sudan genocide

Council-mandated Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan Yasmin Sooka. Photo Credit: Reuters.   World powers can stop a "Rwanda-like" genocide in South Sudan if they immediately...

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Nigerian High Commission apartments in Ghana demolished

Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers. The apartments have been constructed to...

Covid-19: Ghana records significant recovery numbers

Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered. The significant number of recoveries means the country now...

DR Congo: President’s ex-chief of staff jailed 20 years for corruption

The ex-chief of staff of the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been jailed 20 years by a high court. Vital Kamerhe was...

Covid-19: Zimbabwe’s health minister arrested, charged for graft

Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million. Moyo is accused of illegally...

Ghana’s new law that jails citizens not wearing facemask 10 years

Ghanaians who fail to wear the face masks in compliance with a presidential directive risk going to jail for ten years. They also face a...
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