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Addis Abeba -- Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) announced on Wednesday a major power outage impacting towns in eastern Ethiopia, the Ethio-Djibouti railway, and parts of Djibouti, caused by theft ...

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Nairobi -- Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja has reiterated the commitment of NPS to collaborate with the United Nations on matters touching on security.

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DISTURBED by the constant loss of income through devaluation of the local currency over the years, opposition MPs say it is high time the government addresses Zimbabwe's economic challenges.

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Nairobi Kenya -- The High Court has declined to stop Friday's public participation on the impeachment of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.

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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised to revamp the deteriorating health sector through the provision of essential drugs and equipment.

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Ignore fake 'Citizen TV' graphic that falsely quotes Kenyan governor blaming country's embattled deputy president for coffee woes

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Fact-checking president Tinubu's claims about Nigeria's economic successes in his Independence Day speech

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In a departure from her recent work, a children's book titled Mama's Sleeping Scarf, 'Dream Count' delves into the profound emotions of love and heartbreak women endure, inviting readers to empa...

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Amudat District, Uganda -- "My sister should not have passed away in the way she did," Josephine Telo told a group of women who had survived female genital mutilation. This was the practice - th...

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Beirut -- Last Minute Electoral Law Changes, Mass Arrests

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Khartoum -- In Khartoum, fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has intensified. The regular military appears to have gained control of important centers in the Su...

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The Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, which includes Kenya's Maasai Mara and Tanzania's Serengeti National Park, is one of the most famous and wildlife-rich areas in Africa.

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To ensure he wins Sunday's election, Tunisia's president has effectively eliminated his opponents before the first vote is cast.

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The Canadian province of Quebec will stop recruiting nurses from most African countries to avoid creating shortages of healthcare workers in their countries of origin.

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The South African music industry mourns the death of renowned gospel singer Solomon Molokoane, known as Solly Moholo, after he fell ill while on a music tour in Botswana last month.

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Senegal's Ministry of Sport decided not to renew Aliou Cissé's contract as head of the country's national soccer team. Cissé's contract expired at the end of August, in what is described as an...

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Liberia's former Finance and Development Planning Minister, Samuel D. Tweah, Jr., faces Police interrogation over the death of the Head of the Internal Auditing Agency Emmanuel Barthan Nyeswa da...

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Nairobi, Kenya -- Crop diversity presents an opportunity to address some of the most pressing issues Africa faces today, such as climate impacts, biodiversity loss, and land degradation.

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The Togolese authorities must immediately conduct an investigation into the serious violence that took place on 29 September during a conference organized by the opposition political party Conve...

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France's interior minister has ordered authorities in the French overseas department of Mayotte to arrange deportation flights for migrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo, as Paris seeks ...

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Abuja -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Gambian authorities to drop all charges against The Voice newspaper editors, Musa Sekou Sheriff and Momodou Justice Darboe, and to repeal S...

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In a statement, Kyagulanyi lauded the US government's decision, calling it a significant step toward achieving justice for victims of abuse in Uganda.

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More than 600 government intern doctors are still waiting to be paid for overtime work a year after the Labour Commission recognised them as state employees.

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Proposed changes threaten fair trial rights, empower abusive officials

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Armed individuals, reported by local residents to be "affiliated with Tigrayan forces," attacked a gathering of young people outside Midre-Genet Primary School in Alamata town yesterday, 01 Octo...

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Kampala, Uganda -- Dr. Isaac Ssewanyana was a teenager when the full force of Uganda's HIV epidemic struck home. A cousin - also a close friend - contracted HIV.

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The self-proclaimed Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) must reveal the fate and whereabouts of former Minister of Defence Al-Mahdi al-Barghathi and 18 of his relatives and supporters who were abduc...

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Juba -- The mainstream Sudan Liberation Movement under the leadership of Abdelwahid Mohamed Nur (SLM-AW) and the Sudan Liberation Forces (SLF) alliance led by El Tahir Hajar yesterday agreed on ...

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Lebanon is home to over 250,000 migrant domestic workers who come from African and Asian countries, most of them women, many of them from Ethiopia.

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The African Development Bank has made a strategic equity investment of $10 million in Dhamana Guarantee Company, a Nairobi-based provider of guarantees to support sustainable growth enterprises....

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The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved financing of 9.51 million euros to the Comoros for implementation of the Project to Support the Digitization of t...

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Around 1920, when new inventions and innovations were gathering momentum, the United States of America launched the Prohibition Law which banned the transportation of intoxicating liquors for be...

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