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LUSAKA. – Zambian President Edgar Lungu has allowed the army and two other defence wings to help the police in containing violence that has marred the run-up to the general elections.
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LONDON. – The British government has been criticised for failing to apologise and compensate members of two communities in western Kenya whose land was taken away during the colonial era.
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Kenya said it is extending a night-time curfew and banning public gatherings and in-person meetings to slow the spread of the coronavirus, warning that hospitals are becoming overwhelmed.
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In the freshwater swamp forest of Hlanzoun in southern Benin, majestic trees hum with chirping birds and playful monkeys.
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Johannesburg – Connie Ferguson’s husband, Shona, has passed away.
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A move by Uganda’s government to install digital tracking devices on vehicles to help fight rampant crime has been denounced as a way to monitor activists, government opponents and critics.
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South African banks said yesterday that replacing 1 400 automatic teller machines (ATMs) vandalised and looted during recent violent unrest could take about two months.
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The widow of former President Canaan Banana - Janet Banana - has died aged 83, the family has confirmed.
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ZIMBABWE’S sole representative in the men's golf event at the on-going 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, Scott Vincent, had an indifferent start in the opening round this morning as he finished on level-par at Kasumigaseki Country Club in Japan.
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Zimbabwe has pledged 304 soldiers to the SADC Standby Force Mission in Mozambique to train an infantry battalion size unit at a time, Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has said.
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The ethnic Shona community in Kenya, descendents from people who emigrated in the 1930s, and then in the 1960s as missionaries, will soon finally get certificates of citizenship following the decision at the end of last year by the Kenyan Government to recognize them as Kenyans.
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LUANDA. –The Angolan Parliament on Tuesday approved the integration of Angolan forces into the Southern African Development Community (SADC)’s mission for peace in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.
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JOHANNESBURG. – Prisons in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal are reporting that many inmates arrested for alleged looting and violence in the provinces two weeks ago have tested positive for Covid-19.
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NAIROBI. – Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan received her COVID-19 vaccine in public on Wednesday, in the most decisive signal yet of a break from the policies of her late predecessor who repeatedly dismissed the threat of the pandemic.
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LONDON. – The global economy is increasingly divided between vaccine haves and have nots, the world’s lender of last resort, the International Monetary Fund, said yesterday. The outlook for the UK economy has improved since April, but Britain and other wealthy economies are not immune from the economic toll the Covid-19 pandemic is taking elsewhere, […]