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895AfricaCoups in Africa: Evidence of poor governance – experts
Agencies, (VOA): As Nigeria joined a growing number of nations criticizing Africa’s latest coup, this time in Gabon, experts said Thursday that...
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836AfricaZimbabwe Electoral Commission: President Mnangagwa Wins Reelection
Harare, (VOA): Zimbabwe’s Electoral Commission has declared President Emmerson Mnangagwa the winner of Wednesday’s general election with Nelson Chamisa, the leader of...
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686AfricaLIST: Iran, Saudi among six new countries joining BRICS bloc
Johannesburg, (VOA): The BRICS group of emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is admitting six new members, its leaders...
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1.2KWorld NewsUganda govt defends self as ICC begins receiving torture testimonies
Uganda's government is rejecting claims that top officials, including President Yoweri Museveni and his son, were responsible for the torture of political...
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528AfricaUN Calls for Effort to Push Sudan’s Warring Sides Toward Resolution
Fighting in Sudan’s capital worsened Wednesday, with witnesses reporting airstrikes, rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire in several neighborhoods.
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2.0KAfricaOver 200 dead, many more missing after floods in eastern DR Congo
Thomas Bakenge, administrator of Kalehe, the worst-hit territory, told reporters on the scene Saturday that 203 bodies had been recovered so far,...
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1.4KVideoCongolese student invents device that makes Science fiction a reality
A student in Congo has developed a tool that allows people to control or move objects using their brain signals.
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871CourtDominic Ongwen: ICC upholds 25-year jail term for LRA Commander
Led by fugitive warlord Joseph Kony, the LRA terrorized Ugandans for nearly 20 years as it fought President Yoweri Museveni's government from...
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636Big StoryMedia activists say new computer law targeting government critics
The law, which Museveni signed Thursday, bans the use of social media to publish, distribute or share information prohibited under the laws...
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1.0KAfrica20 Young People Die Mysteriously in South African Tavern
Siyanda Manana, a spokesperson for the Eastern Cape provincial health department, said the bodies were being transported to state mortuaries and autopsies...
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1.0KJust InMonkeypox outbreak tops 1,000 cases; WHO warns of ‘real’ risk
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the U.N. health agency was not recommending mass vaccination against the virus and added...
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526Latest NewsUgandan researchers develop low-cost sensors to track air pollution
Kampala, Uganda's capital home to two million people, ranks among the world's most polluted cities, with pollution levels up to seven times...
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1.2KAfricaBiden approves plan to redeploy forces into Somalia
The New York Times reported that Biden also approved a plan to target about a dozen suspected leaders of al-Shabab.
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1.1KAfrica30 Burundian AU soldiers Killed in al-Shabaab attack in Somalia
A Burundian official told VOA Somali said what caught soldiers by surprise was the enormity of explosives detonated at the camp, adding...
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1.0KAfricaHigh-Ranking Police Officer Arrested for Alleged Drug Trafficking
A police statement Monday said the officers were arrested for tampering with narcotic evidence, corruption and unethical practices.
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960AfricaAfrica, EU to Meet After Rifts Over COVID Vaccines
Leaders from the two continents will meet in Brussels to discuss, among other things, the reaction to the pandemic and helping Africa...
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1.1KAfricaBurkina Faso President Kabore Detained by Mutinous Soldiers in Apparent Coup
The apparent coup in Burkina Faso is the third in West Africa in the last 18 months, following that of Mali and...
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714AfricaFire Reignites at South African Parliament
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA: A fire that severely damaged South Africa’s 130-year-old parliament building complex, including the parliament chamber, Sunday in Cape...
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1.2KAfricaKenya Bars Unvaccinated From Public Places Despite Court Order
NAIROBI, KENYA: Kenya’s Ministry of Health has announced it will enforce a rule requiring people to be vaccinated against COIVD-19 to access...
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1.1KAfricaNigeria Destroys One Million Nearly Expired COVID Vaccine Doses
LAGOS, NIGERIA: Nigeria destroyed more than one million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday after authorities said they could not be...
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1.1KAfricaUN Condemns Reports of Sexual Assaults on Peaceful Protesters in Sudan
GENEVA – U.N. human rights officials are calling on Sudanese authorities to investigate and bring to justice members of the security forces...
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1.2KAfricaMPs Exchange Blows Over Proposed Electronic Payment Tax
The government says the new tax would boost revenue for development, but parliament has been split over the idea and fights broke...
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846AfricaEthiopia detains three journalists for interviewing terror group
ADIS-ABABA, ETHIOPIA: A freelance video journalist accredited to the Associated Press and two other local journalists have been detained in Ethiopia, according...
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1.2KCOVID-19
High Court suspends govt mandatory COVID-19 vaccination order
High court judge Antony Mrima put a hold on a government directive that would have denied services to unvaccinated persons beginning next...