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Fifty days after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica, authorities are assessing the damage it left behind. The UN says it could cost the country up to $15 billion.

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[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Mulbah K. Morlu, chairman of the advocacy group Solidarity and Trust for a New Day (STAND), has condemned what he described as police brutality against peaceful protesters and criticized the Executive Mansion for rejecting a petition submitted by demonstrators. He vowed that the opposition's struggle against what he called "bad governance" will continue.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Regional law enforcement agencies have converged in Nairobi for a two day workshop aimed at strengthening the fight against pharmaceutical crime, a growing transnational threat that authorities say endangers public health and undermines legitimate supply chains across Africa.

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Beloved Jamaican reggae star Jimmy Cliff was celebrated at a memorial service in Kingston on Wednesday and thousands turned out to pay their respects.

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Reinforcements from the Central African Armed Forces (FACA) have been deployed in the Vakaga region with the support of the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSCA to help secure the elections.

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[ISS] African countries and their leaders must apply UN findings in comparable situations of violence, whether in Sudan, the DRC or elsewhere.

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[Shabelle] Mogadishu, Somalia -- Somalia's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Abdisalan Abdi Ali, met on Thursday with Ethiopia's ambassador to Somalia, Suleiman Dedefo Woshe, in Mogadishu in a bid to strengthen bilateral ties and regional cooperation.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Wednesday launched his sharpest attack yet on President William Ruto, accusing him of deceiving voters and presiding over what he described as "the greatest electoral fraud since independence," in remarks that deepen political fractures within the once-solid Mt Kenya voting bloc.

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[Vanguard] Nigeria's local fish production has increased to 1.4 million metric tonnes from 1.1 million metric tonnes this year, signalling renewed momentum in the Federal Government's drive to boost domestic output, cut imports and strengthen food security.

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[Vanguard] The Federal Government has confirmed the release of the Nigerian Air Force aircraft and 11 soldiers detained in Burkina Faso after a forced landing.

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[Liberian Observer] Three fire experts, who were part of a team from the United States that assessed the damages and investigated the cause of the fire that occurred on December 18, 2024, at the Capitol Building may likely be recalled sharing their findings with the jurors of Criminal Court 'A'.

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The rebel movement M23 has announced its exit from the strategically important city of Uvira in eastern DRC. This reportedly comes at the request of American mediators in the conflict between the M23 and the armed forces of the DR Congo.

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Rwanda is solidifying its reputation as a continental digital leader, leveraging technology as the core engine of its national transformation. From

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Diageo is set to exit East Africa after agreeing to sell its entire 65% stake in East African Breweries (EABL) for $2.3 billion. The buyer, Japan’s

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Uganda’s export earnings surged in October, nearly doubling from a year earlier as higher global prices lifted revenues from key commodities. According

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Israel has given final approval to a $37 billion deal to increase natural gas exports to Egypt. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the

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Manchester Museum has unveiled thousands of African artifacts while openly acknowledging it knows “little to nothing” about the origins of many of

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The ‘Mara’ sub-genre has quietly become one of the most kinetic forces shaping Afrobeats, rooted in the street cultures of Mainland Lagos, Nigeria.

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A tense diplomatic situation in West Africa has been resolved after Burkina Faso released 11 detained Nigerian Air Force personnel. The crew had

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President Donald Trump delivered a politically charged speech Wednesday carried live in prime time on network television, seeking to pin the blame for economic challenges on Democrats while also repeating his claim of having ended "eight wars" in ten months.

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