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Kenya lawmakers plan impeachment move against deputy president, majority leader says
NAIROBI - Kenyan lawmakers plan to launch impeachment proceedings against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, accusing him of undermining...
Oct 1, 20242 min read
Sudan's army launches push to retake ground in capital
DUBAI - Sudan's army launched artillery and airstrikes in Sudan's capital on Thursday in its biggest operation to regain ground there...
Sep 27, 20243 min read
Kenyan school blaze victims mourned at mass funeral
NYERI, Kenya - Grieving relatives and former classmates bid a solemn farewell on Thursday to 21 children who died in a boarding school...
Sep 27, 20242 min read
Kenyan police in plainclothes fired on Nairobi protesters, Amnesty says
NAIROBI - Kenyan police out of uniform and with no official identification fired live rounds at demonstrators at the country's parliament...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Cape Town's 'bicycle mayor' helps township girls embrace cycling
CAPE TOWN - As Sindile Mavundla guided young girls on their bikes through a street in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township, he said he had...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
US to donate 1 million mpox vaccine doses to halt outbreak in Africa
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday the donation of 1 million mpox vaccine doses and at least $500 million to...
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Analysis-West Africa becomes global terrorism hotspot as Western forces leave
DAKAR - Having slipped undetected into Mali's capital weeks ago, the jihadis struck just before dawn prayers. They killed dozens of...
Sep 24, 20245 min read
Tanzania briefly arrests opposition leaders to stop protests
NAIROBI - Tanzanian police arrested three opposition leaders again on Monday, their party and police said, to stop anti-government...
Sep 24, 20242 min read
Factbox-Countries with confirmed cases of new mpox strain
India became the third country outside of Africa to confirm a case of the clade Ib form of the mpox virus that has triggered global...
Sep 24, 20242 min read
Factbox-The racial divide in South Africa's economy
JOHANNESBURG - Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa's economy remains deeply divided by race, spurring political debate...
Sep 24, 20242 min read
UN advisory body makes seven recommendations for governing AI
STOCKHOLM - An artificial-intelligence advisory body at the United Nations on Thursday released its final report proposing seven...
Sep 20, 20242 min read
Nigeria's flood-hit residents lament expensive canoe rides
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - When floods swept through Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri last week, canoe owners volunteered to help move...
Sep 20, 20241 min read
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