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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- County governors have formally requested urgent talks with the Senate leadership to ease rising tensions over parliamentary oversight, warning that the current climate could undermine collaboration between the two institutions responsible for safeguarding devolution.

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[Scrolla] WaterCAN says Johannesburg residents already live in Day Zero conditions, with areas experiencing outages lasting close to 20 days. The group calls on the government to declare Johannesburg a national disaster area and demands daily updates from Johannesburg Water.

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[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- A tweet from the chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Jim Risch to Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Chief of Defence Forces, cast the spotlight on US-Uganda diplomatic relations in the wake of a contentious presidential election where President Yoweri Museveni was elected for a seventh term.

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[IPS] Mandera, Kenya, -- Every morning before sunrise, 10-year-old Amina Adan walks away from school and toward a shrinking water pan on the outskirts of Rhamu, Mandera County. By the time her classmates would be opening exercise books, Amina was already balancing a yellow jerrycan almost half her size.

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Angola’s President João Lourenço and representatives of the African Union have called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Congo.

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Unrest broke out at Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in the capital Dakar on Monday, according to a statement by a government spokeswoman, who said a second-year medical student, Abdoulaye Ba, died as a result

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In a vibrant prelude to Carnival, followers of Afro-Brazilian religions performed a sweeping cleansing ritual at Rio de Janeiro’s Sambadrome on Saturday, invoking peace and ancestral protection for the festivities ahead.

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Heavy "automatic gunfire" rang out near the central prison in Guinea's capital early on Tuesday in Kaloum, Conakry's administrative centre where the presidential palace is located,

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Nairobi says it has shut down illegal recruiters and will urge Moscow to sign a deal banning conscription.

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[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa's anti-poaching and anti-trafficking efforts have yielded a 16% overall decline in rhino poaching last year when compared to 2024.

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[This Day] Minna -- Following a recent series of attacks, kidnappings, and killings in Borgu and Agwara Local Government Areas of Niger State, the Inspector General of Police (IG), Kayode Egbetokun, has deployed a police armed tactical squad to communities in the two LGAs to help restore peace, law,w and order in the areas.

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Mogadishu, long associated with war and militant attacks, is embracing a new pastime: bowling.
Somalia’s first modern bowling alley has opened in the capital, reflecting a cautious return to everyday life.

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Eswatini says the talks were part of regional diplomacy and not an attempt to interfere.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The High Court has slotted a March 5 mention for a petition seeking to block alleged unchecked access to State House by controversial Zimbabwean businessman and ZANU-PF baron Wicknell Chivayo.

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[Shabelle] Riyadh -- Somalia's interior security minister Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail, known as Fartaag, met Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Ayyaf in Riyadh to discuss strengthening security cooperation between the two countries, Somali officials said.

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[Shabelle] Saakow, Somalia -- Somalia's National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), working with international partners, has killed a senior Al-Shabaab commander in an operation carried out outside the town of Saakow in the Middle Juba region, security officials said.

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[GroundUp] Following a landmark appeal case, dozens more community associations have come forward to demand compensation that the Lesotho Highlands Water Project was meant to pay in 2013.

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[Liberian Investigator] MONROVIA -- West African economic policymakers, central bank officials, and regional financial experts on Monday convened in Monrovia for the second ordinary meeting of key technical committees of Economic Community of West African States and the West African Monetary Agency, as part of regional meetings running from Feb. 4 to 13 focused on advancing plans for a proposed ECOWAS single currency.

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[Premium Times] The ranking places Nigeria behind 33 other African countries, spotlighting persistent governance challenges in Africa's most populous nation.

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Mastercard has welcomed its 2026 Youth Employment Service (YES) cohort, reinforcing its commitment to unlocking opportunity for young South Africans and

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Political party activities have been suspended in the Sahel country since the army seized power in 2022