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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, […]
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Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi on Monday sent off troops to Mozambique as part of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Standby Force.
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Tunisia’s young democracy faced its worst crisis in a decade on yesterday after President Kais Saied ousted the government and suspended parliament with help from the army, a move denounced as a coup by the main parties including Islamists.
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South African police on Saturday re-arrested two Zimbabwean armed robbers and a local man who escaped from police custody on Wednesday last week.
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South Africa will return to a lighter level of lockdown today as the country’s third wave of Covid-19 shows signs of waning, with the adjusted alert Level 3 lockdown announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday. It has been a month since South Africa was placed under stricter lockdown restrictions aimed at reducing Covid-19 infections and […]
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JOHANNESBURG. – A week of deadly riots in South Africa could cost the country about R50 billion in lost output, while 150 000 jobs have been placed at risk, the Presidency said, citing estimates from the South African Property Owners Association. About 200 malls were targeted and some 3 000 shops were looted during the […]
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WINDHOEK. – Namibia is seeking measures to improve the management of lions and has paid farmers who are affected by human-wildlife conflict, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, Romeo Muyunda, said yesterday.
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NAIROBI. – Chinese-built ring roads are reducing traffic jams in Kenya’s capital city Nairobi through the development of a loop line around east Africa’s largest urban centre that provides alternative routes for moving around the area.
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JOHANNESBURG. – During the worst crisis to face post democratic South Africa, factional battles within the ANC have emerged as ministers and the party publicly contradict each other over the mayhem that engulfed parts of Kwa-Zulu Natal and Gauteng.
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JOHANNESBURG. – Former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke says local government elections scheduled for October 27 this year will not be free and fair under Covid-19 conditions.
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BAMAKO. – Two people tried to stab the president of the transition in Mali, Colonel Assimi Goïta, yesterday morning during the Muslim rite of Eid al-Adha, the feast of the Sacrifice, at the Grand Mosque of Bamako.