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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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Kenya murder: Army chief 'appalled' at claims British soldiers were involved in Agnes Wanjiru killing
Image:A post-mortem examination found Agnes Wanjiru died as a result of stab wounds/Courtesy Sky News The body of 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru was found in a septic tank at the Lions...
Burundians and Rwandans find friends - and friendly competition - at community soccer match
Jeannot Ndayishimiye, center, celebrates after scoring a goal for Burundi in the final minutes of Saturday's match. Photo Ari Snider/Maine Public Barely fifteen minutes into a recent soccer match between...
Pandemic leads to surge of child mothers in Uganda
Photo via New African When the Ugandan government closed schools in March 2020, soon after the first case of Covid-19 was cited in the country, no one imagined at the...
Kenyan president warns Africa's GDP may fall 30% due to climate change
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. Photo Anadolu Agency President Uhuru Kenyatta said Tuesday that in the absence of urgent climate change adaptation action, Africa's GDP risks contracting by up to 30%...
Save the Children: $30million urgently required to address South Sudan’s worsening humanitarian situation
The children's charity, Save the Children and partners have scaled up coordinated humanitarian response in South Sudan as floods, conflicts, and persistent economic challenges continue to impact children and the...
Researchers in Uganda Start Trials for HIV Injectable Drug
A health worker counts antiretroviral drug tablets for a patient at The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) in the capital Kampala, Uganda, July 12, 2012. Photo AP KAMPALA, UGANDA — Uganda...
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Kenya murder: Army chief 'appalled' at claims British soldiers were involved in Agnes Wanjiru killing
Image:A post-mortem examination found Agnes Wanjiru died as a result of stab wounds/Courtesy Sky News The body of 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru was found in a septic tank at the Lions...
Airtel Africa Q2 results: Net profit more than doubles to $192 million
Airtel Africa’s profit for the first half ended September 2021 more than doubled on-year to $335 million, while revenue for the same period rose 25 per cent YoY to $2.27...
Burundians and Rwandans find friends - and friendly competition - at community soccer match
Jeannot Ndayishimiye, center, celebrates after scoring a goal for Burundi in the final minutes of Saturday's match. Photo Ari Snider/Maine Public Barely fifteen minutes into a recent soccer match between...
Pandemic leads to surge of child mothers in Uganda
Photo via New African When the Ugandan government closed schools in March 2020, soon after the first case of Covid-19 was cited in the country, no one imagined at the...
Agnes Wanjiru murder: Kenya family's anger over UK army 'cover-up'
Photo Courtesy BBC The family of a Kenyan woman allegedly killed by a British soldier in 2012 have told the BBC of their anger and despair that no-one has yet...
Raila Takes Break, Jets Out to Dubai
An undated photo of ODM leader Raila Odinga inside an aeroplane FILE Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga took a break from campaigns and jetted out of the Country...
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An international team of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists has discovered a large collection of two million years old stone tools, fossilized bones, and plant materials at the Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania. N...
UK travel ban extended to...
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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...
NAIROBI, March 4 (Xinhua) -- For the last two months, a government worker George Agutu, who works in Mombasa, Kenya's coastal city, has traveled to the capital Nairobi every weekend to be with his family. However, befor...
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Pandemic leads to surge of chi...
Photo via New African When the Ugandan government closed schools in March 2020, soon after the first case of Covid-19 was cited in the country, no one imagined at the time that the virus would fu...
Researchers in Uganda Start Tr...
A health worker counts antiretroviral drug tablets for a patient at The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) in the capital Kampala, Uganda, July 12, 2012. Photo AP KAMPALA, UGANDA — Uganda has kicks...
Burundi rolls out Covid jabs,...
Burundi's Minister of Health Dr Thaddee Ndikumana, centre, Minister of Interior Gervais Ndirakobuca, right, and China's ambassador to Burundi Zhao Jiangping, left, mark the arrival of the first C...
Burundi Gets First Covid-19 Va...
(Bloomberg) -- Burundi received 500,000 doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines on Thursday, in a Chinese donation valued at $3 million, according to Health Minister Thaddée Ndikumana. “We have rec...
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