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[New Zimbabwe] President Emmerson Mnangagwa walked out of the New Parliament Building in darkness, a significant highlight of the country's ongoing electricity crisis.

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[RFI] President Bola Tinubu's state visit to France brings a delegation of Nigerian business leaders seeking new investment in Africa's largest economy. It also reflects growing efforts to strengthen economic links between Nigeria and France.

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[SciDev.Net] Africa must protect its agricultural biodiversity to build a food-secure future, writes Joyce Maru, Africa director at the International Potato Center.

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[GroundUp] About 150 shacks at Kenville informal settlement were gutted on Wednesday afternoon

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[GroundUp] SARS closes a loophole in import duties

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[VOA] Gaborone, Botswana -- Botswana has been added as a second center, in addition to Belgium, to verify the origin of rough diamonds meant for export to the Group of Seven leading industrialized countries, the nation's presidency announced Thursday.

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[Dabanga] El Fasher / Dubai / Abu Dhabi / Benghazi / Bogotá -- At least 300 Colombian ex-soldiers are reportedly fighting in Sudan, according to an investigative report by Colombian news site, La Silla Vacía, published on Tuesday. The report alleges that the soldiers were drawn into the ongoing conflict through a cross-border operation involving four countries, chiefly spearheaded by the United Arab Emirates.

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[The Conversation Africa] The Kenyan government is using technology to improve governance, service delivery and national security. The progress, while welcome, has brought with it concerns about state surveillance, data protection, and violations of fundamental rights and freedoms. Following anti-government protests in Kenya that began in June 2024, for instance, there were several reports of state-led abductions and arbitrary arrests. With Kenyans' personal data being collected at an unprecedented scale, the balance between

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[The Conversation Africa] Traffic in Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, is congested and chaotic. About 1.8 million vehicles used Lagos roads in 2022. The city has 226 vehicles per kilometre. The global average is 11 cars per km and the Nigerian national average is 16.

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With his two-goal performance against Nice, has Hamza Igamane pushed himself to the front of the queue to start up front for Rangers?

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For the first time in 24 years, a Nigerian President began a state visit to France on Thursday to boost economic ties and attract foreign investments.

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This week: the lifting of the diamond embargo in CAR, a turning point for the economy, the GIMPay project reinventing payments in Nigeria, and the challenges of circular textiles in Ghana.

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In a report released Thursday, the group revealed that police killed at least 24 people between August 1 and 10 in six states: Borno, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, and Niger.

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This week: the lifting of the diamond embargo in CAR, a turning point for the economy, the GIMPay project reinventing payments in Nigeria, and the challenges of circular textiles in Ghana.

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Zimbabwe has faced daily 12-hour power cuts due to a drought affecting power supply at the Kariba Dam.

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At least 15 people have died and 113 others are missing after landslides buried homes in six villages in eastern Uganda, police said Thursday.

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Prince Johnson, a former Liberian warlord who later became an influential senator, has died at the age of 72. Johnson was a prominent militia leader in Liberia's civil wars from 1989 to 2003.

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Prince Johnson oversaw the torture and killing of the then-president but was later elected to the senate.

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The UK and US are among several countries imploring Mozambique's government to look into reports of disproportionate use of force in post-election protests. Since October, more than a dozen protesters and several police officers have been killed the unrest.

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Bulldozers in Nabatiyeh city in southern Lebanon on Thursday started to remove the debris from the old souk of the city a day after the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

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Madrid has lost three of its last five games overall, sitting in 24th place this season. The club's head coach Carlo Ancelotti stated that Mbappé was in need of "support."