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[GroundUp] Documents were filed before the Thabo Bester revelations

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[SAnews.gov.za] Eskom says it will be ramping up its demand side management (DSM) initiatives in order to better manage the supply and demand of electricity in South Africa.

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[Namibian] The president of the African Development Bank Group, Akinwumi Adesina, has called for a significant increase in Japanese investment in Africa, saying the continent is the world's best investment destination now and in the future.

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Guinea-Bissau has become the first non-European country to join an international agreement on government accountability for human rights and the environment, the United Nations announced Tuesday.

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The Hague-based ICC issued an arrest warrant in March for Russian President Vladimir Putin for the war crime of "deporting" Ukrainian children.

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The U.N. refugee agency warned Tuesday of “further displacement” of people from Sudan after thousands streamed into neighboring Chad and South Sudan despite a tenuous cease-fire between the two warring Sudanese generals battling for control of the country

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The number of missing people in pastor Paul Mackenzie's Shakahola forest cult has risen to 212, according to the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS).

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Children with autism are referred to as "wizards", "bewitched" or "lost" in Congo-Brazzaville, where a school has been set up to promote their "socialization" and raise awareness of this neurodevelopmental disorder.

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"We have seen in the press.. that it is a new disease that has appeared, a mysterious disease, it's absolutely not. It is a chemical burn due to contact with a corrosive agent that appeared on the high seas, we do not know the origin of what happened but we are sure that it is corrosion of the skin

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[ISS] But with less than two months to go, the main political parties still haven't agreed on the electoral rules.

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[Crisis Group] A victim's relative is among those accusing Meta in a Kenyan court of failing to adequately police incendiary speech on Facebook during Ethiopia's civil war. Much greater effort from the company is warranted. But Meta's task is hardly straightforward.

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South Africa captain Siya Kolisi's Rugby World Cup in doubt after knee injury.

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Many Africans have been studying in Khartoum and are now looking to get out.

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[Scrolla] Get ready for a knock-out battle!

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[Capital FM] Malindi -- The Malindi Sub-County hospital morgue is full to capacity following the delivery of 78 bodies in pastor Paul Mackenzie's cult which have so far been exhumed.

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[ADAPT] African Vaccination Week is a crucial reminder of the life-saving power of vaccines. From COVID-19 to polio, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B, influenza, rotavirus, measles, and the human papillomavirus (HPV), vaccines offer protection against deadly diseases. With this week falling on the last week of April, there is no better time to prioritize vaccination.

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A new provisional death toll from the Marburg virus epidemic that has been raging for more than three months in Equatorial Guinea has risen to 12, according to a new health ministry report confirmed to AFP on Monday.

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Viola Davis was honored as the 48th Chaplin Award Gala recipient Monday (24 April 2023) in New York

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[Addis Standard] Addis Ababa -- The Council yesterday said it looks forward to "a normalization of relations with Ethiopia and stands ready to support further progress on its path towards lasting peace." However, the block said that it "will progressively return" to a full and strengthened strategic engagement with Ethiopia subject to "a sustained implementation" of the permanent Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (CoHA) signed between the federal government and the TPLF, and has once again reiterated "its full support for the agreement.

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The White House said Monday that the U.S. is helping from afar as thousands of Americans left behind in Sudan seek to escape fighting in the East African nation after the U.S. Embassy evacuated all of its diplomatic personnel over the weekend and shut down.

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The bodies of 34 illegal migrants who drowned while trying to reach Europe have been recovered from the coast of western Libya in five days, the Libyan Red Crescent (LRC) said Monday.