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Family of Ugandan Weightlifter Says He Contemplated Suicide After Olympic Disqualification
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65 Kenyans taking Prep contract HIV, ministry says
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Rwanda extends lockdown measures against COVID-19 to consolidate gains
KIGALI, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Rwandan government on Sunday announced a five-day extension of the current lockdown measures that prohibit unnecessary…
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Rwanda’s Assault on YouTubers Puts Journalists in Crosshairs
KIGALI — There is nothing glamorous about being a YouTuber in Rwanda, says John Williams Ntwali, whose channel Pax TV is a year old. The pay is poor, the threats...
Tanzania inaugurates phase 1 of Egypt’s $35 million Elsewedy Industrial Complex
Tanzanian President Samia Hassan and Egypt s Housing Minister Assem El-Gazzar inaugurates Elsewedy Industrial Complex in Tanzania. Press photo Tanzanian President Samia Hassan inaugurated the first phase of Egypt’s Elsewedy...
Peta Credlin apologises for false South Sudanese claims
Sky News host Peta Credlin apologised for the second time in 18 months to Victoria’s South Sudanese community. Photo SKY NEWS Sky News host Peta Credlin has issued a lengthy...
Tanzania Commission To Donate 1.7 Million Naira To Charity
The Tanzania High Commission in Nigeria is set to donate N1.7m naira to charity in commemoration of Tanzania’s 60th Independent anniversary. The Tanzanian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr. Benson Bana...
NSO spyware said used to hack phones of State Department officials working in Uganda
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (right) and Uganda’s First Lady Janet Museveni (2nd from right) pose for photo with then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu at the State...
Kenyan footballer fails in bid to overturn five year visa ban to live in Ireland
Paul Kiongera, who is in a relationship with an Irish woman, brought a legal challenge. He brought the legal challenge against the Minister for Justice seeking to overturn a finding...
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Rwanda’s Assault on YouTubers Puts Journalists in Crosshairs
KIGALI — There is nothing glamorous about being a YouTuber in Rwanda, says John Williams Ntwali, whose channel Pax TV is a year old. The pay is poor, the threats...
At least 38 inmates killed in Burundi prison fire, dozens more injured
Security officers stand next to the burned prison in Gitega, Bujumbra, Burundi, on Dec. 7, 2021. Photo AFP/Getty Images At least 38 inmates were killed and dozens more injured Tuesday...
African immigrants in U.S. more religious than other Black Americans, and more likely to be Catholic
A parishioner who immigrated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo sings during Sunday service in Portland, Maine, in 2017. (Carl D. Walsh/Portland Portland Press Herald/Getty Images) In many ways,...
Kenyan "rogue" policeman kills six in rampage - police
NAIROBI (Reuters) -A Kenyan police officer shot dead six people in a rampage in a neighbourhood in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday and then shot and killed himself, police said....
I’m sorry I killed Hani, I now reject apartheid and have gone back to my Catholic roots, says Janusz Walus
Soldiers line the road outside Chris Hani's home in Dawn Park, Boksburg as a police van prepares to take the body of the SACP leader away on April 10,1993.Image: Herbert...
Tanzania inaugurates phase 1 of Egypt’s $35 million Elsewedy Industrial Complex
Tanzanian President Samia Hassan and Egypt s Housing Minister Assem El-Gazzar inaugurates Elsewedy Industrial Complex in Tanzania. Press photo Tanzanian President Samia Hassan inaugurated the first phase of Egypt’s Elsewedy...
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South Sudan suspends airl...
Photo Anadolu Agency South Sudan's president on Wednesday suspended the operation of South Supreme Airlines, the company owning the plane that crashed in the Pieri Town on Tuesday evening, an official statement said. “As...
Kenya's SGR night train u...
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Peta Credlin apologises for fa...
Sky News host Peta Credlin apologised for the second time in 18 months to Victoria’s South Sudanese community. Photo SKY NEWS Sky News host Peta Credlin has issued a lengthy on-air apology to Vic...
Rwanda reinstates quarantine r...
Kigali International Airport. Rwanda will effective Sunday, November 28, 2021 reinstate the mandatory 24-hour quarantine for all arriving passengers as officials move to control potential entry a...
South Sudan launches mandatory...
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