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[The Conversation Africa] Sub-Saharan Africa, home to 80% of the global population without electricity access, is unlikely to reach the United Nations' goal of access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030.
[ISS] Many of South Africa's community police forums need strengthening, but police can also use other means to build local relationships.
[Afrobarometer] Half of citizens say women are likely to be criticised, harassed, or shamed if they report assault.
[Norwegian Refugee Council] In Niger, the Ministry of Education has validated the six-month Accelerated Education Programme (AEP) developed by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
[Vanguard] The ad hoc committees set up by both the Senate and House of Representatives to probe alleged economic sabotage in the petroleum sector have settled for a joint investigation of the allegation.
[IPS] This week's United Nations General Assembly marks nearly 20 years since the body first resolved to restrict bottom trawling on the world's seamounts, submarine mountains that rise thousands of feet above the sea floor and comprise some of the most biologically rich marine ecosystems on the planet.
[Vanguard] The Borno Government says only N4.4bn is handy out of the N13.1bn donations and pledges made by groups and individuals for victims of the flood disaster.
[New Zimbabwe] Citizens Coalition for Change interim leader Jameson Timba and 64 of his supporters will remain in jail after Magistrate Collet Ncube denied them bail.
[New Zimbabwe] TWO Zanu PF Mashonaland West Youth League leaders are in the law's crosshairs after they sold two heifers donated under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's pass-on scheme.
[Foroyaa] Information received by Foroyaa on Friday, 20 September 2024 indicate that tidal flooding caused by recent heavy downpours, have destroyed rice fields in the Wuli East village of Sutukoba in Upper River Region of the Gambia.
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Russia has declined to support a UN blueprint aimed at bringing the world’s increasingly divided nations together to tackle 21st-century challenges from climate change and artificial intelligence to escalating conflicts and increasing inequality and poverty.
[Liberian Investigator] The news of an unauthorized aircraft landing in Sierra Leone, which originated from Liberia, has laid bare the vulnerabilities within our national security framework. The Liberian Civil Aviation Authority's startling admission of ignorance regarding the aircraft's origins and activities raises pressing questions about the robustness and effectiveness of our national security measures.
[ANGOP] Benguela -- The Government of the United States of America, through its Power Africa initiative, is organizing this Wednesday, a conference on the Coordination of Support to the Lobito Corridor, to be held in that railroad city.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Office romances between consenting employees are now protected from disciplinary action by employers, following a ruling by the Employment and Labour Relations Court.
[New Zimbabwe] OPPOSITION MPs were disgruntled last week after being out-voted by the ruling party Zanu PF legislators following a robust Finance Bill debate in Parliament on Thursday and Friday.
[New Zimbabwe] THE US ambassador to Zimbabwe Pamela Tremont says her government will continue supporting Zimbabwe ensuring there are strong democratic institutions.
[AI London] The Kenyan High Court is today hearing a case in which two Ethiopian citizens, Abrham Meareg and Fisseha Tekle, and Kenyan civil society organization The Katiba Institute are accusing Facebook's parent company Meta of promoting content that led to ethnic violence and killings during the armed conflict in northern Ethiopia from November 2020 to November 2022.
[Premium Times] The Federal lawmakers went on two months recess in July.
[Premium Times] A shootout ensued between EFCC operatives and security details of Kogi State Governor Usman Ododo and former Governor Yahaya Bello last Wednesday.
[Premium Times] The PDP also called on INEC to review the result of the poll.
[Premium Times] The University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital sustained significant water damage and was forced to suspend its operations for two weeks.
