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[Daily Trust] President Samia Suluhu Hassan has taken a commanding early lead in Tanzania's controversial general elections, even as the country reels from violent protests, a nationwide lockdown, and mounting allegations of electoral fraud.

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[Premium Times] The conversation will explore AI's influence on democracy, information integrity, and electoral trust

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The Africa Tourism Investment Conference (ATIC), one of the continent’s leading gatherings for tourism investment, returns to Cape Town on 14 April 2026 as an

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The AfCFTA Secretariat, in partnership with the Black Star Experience (BSE) and Africa Tourism Partners (ATP), is proud to announce the inaugural Creatives

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Tramayne Monaghan, Chief Ventures Officer at NEXT176, asks what it really takes to build scalable startups in Africa.

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[New Times] Mutoni is 12 and full of wonder. She lives in a quiet village in Gakenke District, where the lights often flicker out and where girls are still told that science is not for them.

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[Spotlight Initiative] Muchinga Province -- Under the shade of a mango tree at the Isoka One-stop Centre, Jane Nakamba, 27, sat quietly with her child and reflected on her journey.

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[GroundUp] But there is a silver lining

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[CPJ] The Committee to Protect Journalists and 37 other media and human rights groups have written to the Angolan Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technologies, and Media, urging amendments to the draft law on the Dissemination of False Information on the Internet, to ensure it aligns with Angola's constitutional protections for freedom of expression and with the international and regional human rights treaties to which the country is a party.

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[Nyasa Times] In a move that has immediately drawn accusations of hypocrisy and political opportunism, His Excellency Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika today unveiled a 24-member cabinet that blatantly contradicts his own party's manifesto pledge to trim the executive to a lean 20 members.

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[Premium Times] "Capacity without character threatens institutional integrity," he cautioned,

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[Premium Times] Army spokesperson Appolonia Aneke announced the deployments in a Thursday statement.

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[GroundUp] The task team had begun exposing questionable state land allocations and widespread corruption

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[African Arguments] Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. It is edited and managed by the International African Institute, hosted at SOAS University of London, the owners of the book series of the same name.

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[ISS] Working collectively, companies can use their market power to drive corruption from their sectors and reap the financial rewards.

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12-Month Google AI Pro Plan Launched for Students in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe to Build Foundational AI Skills 

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[The Conversation Africa] Biologists often form deep bonds with the species they study. For some, that relationship begins early in their careers and shapes decades of research. The connection can be personal, even affectionate, but it can also create tensions when others set their sights on the same species.

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[The Conversation Africa] Despite international efforts to eliminate child marriage, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to have high rates of this harmful practice.

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[The Conversation Africa] For many African communities, the climate crisis is not a future scenario - it is a daily emergency. Irreversible losses, destroyed homes, failed harvests, vanishing ecosystems and lack of access to clean water are already happening.

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[The New Humanitarian] Nairobi -- Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.

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By Oceano Sanhá Tchongo