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[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- A storm is brewing in the corridors of the Liberian Legislature as two prominent lawmakers -- Speaker J. Fonati Koffa and Representative Musa Hassan Bility -- have raised alarm over what they describe as a "corrupt and dangerous" oil agreement between the Government of Liberia and Atlas Oranto Petroleum, calling for its immediate rejection.

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[Namibian] China has expressed interest in importing up to 20 000 tonnes of beef from Namibia every month - more than double the country's current annual exports to the European Union, which stand at about 8 000 tonnes.

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Reigning champions Nigeria qualify for next year's tournament alongside Cape Verde and Malawi who will make their Women's Africa Cup of Nations debut.

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Polling stations opened across Tanzania on Wednesday for a national election overshadowed by concerns from human rights groups and the detention of opposition figures.

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[Health-e] For two years, Xolani Mngomezulu from Indlovu Village in Mtubatuba, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, took at least eight pills a day and endured painful kanamycin injections after being diagnosed with multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB, a hard-to-treat form of the disease.

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[Norwegian Refugee Council] Ahead of the Great Lakes Conference in Paris, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) urges donor countries to step up their support for displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).

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[The Conversation Africa] Digital authoritarianism is a new way governments are trying to control citizens using digital and information technology. It is a growing concern for advocacy groups and those interested in freedom and democracy. It is especially worrying for those who initially heralded digital and information technologies as liberating tools that would spread information more easily for citizens.

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[The Conversation Africa] How successful is luxury tourism in Africa? What happens if it fails to produce higher tourism revenues: can it be reversed? And does it depend on what kind of government is in place?

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[The Conversation Africa] Every year humanity produces nearly 300 million tonnes of plastic. Only a fraction ever gets recycled. Most ends up in rivers, oceans and soil, slowly breaking down into tiny, invisible microplastics that get into what we eat and drink.

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[Daily News] Dar es Salaam -- AS Tanzania decides in the General Election today, religious leaders have made a united call for peace, urging citizens to protect the country's long-cherished stability as both a national and spiritual duty.

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[RFI] Tanzanians are voting on Wednesday in a general election that looks set to keep President Samia Suluhu Hassan in power. But with opposition leaders jailed and political freedoms under pressure, the vote could mark another step back for democracy in one of East Africa's more stable nations.

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[Daily Maverick] South Africa is pursuing an ambitious G20 agenda for the November Summit in Johannesburg -- an agenda which, say some, is overly ambitious.

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[Nile Post] Ugandan opposition stalwart Dr Kizza Besigye has been awarded the prestigious Akufo-Addo Democracy Prize by the Democracy Union of Africa (DUA), even as he remains incarcerated in Luzira Maximum Security Prison.

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Stuart Taylor has been making waves with his new Learner Husband Podcast, a hit with fans who tune in for candid, hilarious conversations about

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[HRW] Junta Closes Schools, Universities Nationwide

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[GroundUp] Frustrated by the unreliable municipal water supply, six communities near Cofimvaba have raised over R110,000 for their own supply infrastructure

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[GroundUp] Three years ago the City promised to restore electricity and erect a fence. Nothing has been done and the place is deteriorating

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Every year, January 24 reminds the world of the critical role education plays in building peaceful, equitable, andsustainablesocieties. For the Regalo Hope

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[Independent (Kampala)] A long-haul bus rolls into Namayiba Bus Terminal in downtown Kampala from the northwesten city of Arua. The driver, who requests anonymity for fear of repercussions from bus companies and authorities, has just completed a grueling journey along the Kampala-Gulu highway. He has driven through the night, as he does most nights, navigating a road that has become synonymous with death. He heard the news a few days ago of another horrific accident, this time at Kitaleeba Village near Asili Farm in Kiryandongo

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[Nyasa Times] There comes a time when silence becomes complicity -- and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has once again chosen to be complicit.

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[Nyasa Times] Six months after a three-judge panel of the Constitutional Court ruled that parliamentarians should no longer play a role in administering the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) and the Water Resource Fund (WRF), Malawi is still without new CDF guidelines, raising concerns about accountability, transparency, and project efficiency at the local level.