Ethiopia: Prime Minister accuses Oromo rebels of new massacre
A new massacre of civilians has taken place in Ethiopia’s largest and most populous region of Oromia, Prime Minister Abiy
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Ethiopian and Sudanese leaders meet in Nairobi
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Tuesday that he had met Sudan’s strongman General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane in Nairobi
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South Africa’s state capture investigator hopes probe report will spark change
Chief Justice Raymond Zondo’s welcoming and cheerful smile belies an uncompromising nature that saw the jailing of former South African
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Sierra Leone’s government backs move to decriminalise abortion
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio announced his government had unanimously backed a bill that would decriminalize abortion in the
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Ecowas lifts Mali sanctions, agrees on Burkina transition
West African leaders met in Ghana, Sunday, to review sanctions imposed on three neighbor countries. Ecowas heads of states lifted
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Sierra Leone slashes ‘zeros of shame’ from banknotes
Sierra Leone on Friday introduced a new family of banknotes, stripping three zeros off the leone, in a bid to
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Kenya in deal to set up East Africa’s first carbon offset exchange
Kenya on Monday opened the Nairobi International Financial Centre (NIFC), with a goal of attracting investment of more than $2
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Mali’s transition govt sets February 2024 for presidential election
The Malian government has adopted an electoral calendar for the transition three days before a summit of the Economic Community
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Tunisia unveils draft constitution that gives president wide-ranging powers
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday published a draft constitution that will be put to a referendum on July 25
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UN: Libya rival officials fail to agree on election terms
Libyan officials from the country’s rival camps failed to reach an agreement on a constitutional framework for national elections, in
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Health of Angola’s former president ‘worrying’, current leader says
On the fringes of a trip to Portugal, Angolan president Joao Lourenço mentioned the frail health of his predecessor. Lourenço
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AU urges restraint over ‘escalating’ Ethiopia-Sudan tensions
The head of the African Union Commission, HE Moussa Faki Mahamat has called on Sudan and Ethiopia to refrain from
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Angola, Mozambique seek answers to fossil fuel concerns at UN Ocean conference
The urgency decreed in Lisbon can only be overcome if humanity manages to resolve different contradictions. For example, the deep-sea
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Guinean Prime Minister meets political parties to ease tensions
Guinean Prime Minister Mohamed Béavogui has met with political parties to ease tensions after the National Front for the Defence
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Lumumba’s coffin displayed at his murder site for a wake in Katanga
Patrice Lumumba’s coffin arrived on Sunday in Haut-Katanga in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo where a wake
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