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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- A total of 17 diplomatic missions, including the EU Delegation, the UK, and Canada, have issued a joint statement condemning the violence and demanding the release of bodies following a crackdown on protests in Tanzania after the disputed October 29, general elections.

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[Scrolla] Mayaba had just left the Dunwoody Shopping Centre with friends when gunmen opened fire, shooting him multiple times. His killing comes three days after two other Alexandra taxi leaders were assassinated, and five weeks after his peace partner was also murdered.

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Mass abductions of schoolchildren have become common in the West African nation, which is facing critical threats from several armed groups, including groups that specialize in kidnappings for ransom

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Driven by a "financial echospace" of ransom payments and supported by a corporate-style value chain, ranging from local informants to white-collar launderers, abduction has become a viable career in a collapsing economy.

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[Premium Times] Though the governor attributed his exit from PDP to the national leadership crisis, the decision was neither abrupt nor unexpected.

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Experts stressed that mine action programmes, often viewed as long-term recovery initiatives, are in fact emergency humanitarian interventions that save lives.

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[New Times] President Paul Kagame and his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi on Thursday, December 4, signed the peace accord in Washington DC, witnessed by US President Donald Trump. This agreement, officially known as the Washington Accords, is a result of more than eight months of US-brokered negotiations between Rwanda and DR Congo.

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[MSF] The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), Doctors Without Borders (MSF), and Kopanang Africa Against Xenophobia (KAAX) - represented by SECTION27, welcome the judgment handed down today by the Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg, which orders the state to take immediate and decisive action to end the obstruction of access to public healthcare facilities in Gauteng.

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[GroundUp] How do we grow the economy and create a more racially equal society?

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[Capital FM] Washington, D.C., Us -- President William Ruto has joined other world leaders in witnessing the signing of a historic peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Washington, D.C., United States.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya has moved to ease growing public concern over data privacy following the signing of a new Health Cooperation Framework and Data Sharing Agreement with the United States, assuring citizens that their personal health information remains fully protected under Kenyan law.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda are preparing to convene the inaugural summit of their new Regional Economic Integration Framework (REIF), a landmark platform designed to advance joint projects in mining, tourism, public health, energy, and infrastructure.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Meta has confirmed that it restricted access to prominent Tanzanian activist Maria Sarungi-Tsehai's Instagram account inside the East African nation following an order from the country's regulator.

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[Nigeria Health Watch] For more than six years, Olufunke Bamidele and her family have used the Primary Health Care (PHC) Centre, in Lugbe, a community in Abuja, Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory (FCT). She recalls a time when access to services at the facility depended entirely on the national electricity grid.

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[Unicef] New York/Maputo -- Tens of thousands of children displaced as families forced to flee in wake of attacks by armed non-state actors

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[RFI] Africa's rising Gen Z movements are putting governments under pressure. Young people on the continent say they want a real place in shaping their countries' futures, yet many feel excluded by leaders far older than them. Their frustration is spilling into streets from Madagascar to Morocco, and new survey data points to fast-falling trust in institutions.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto has welcomed a proposal by the U.S. administration to extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in full for one year, saying the move would safeguard ongoing trade gains while allowing both countries to chart a more ambitious future for the pact.

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[The Conversation Africa] Ismail Mohamed-Jan - better known by South African jazz fans as Pops Mohamed - has passed away at the age of 75. His life in music represented a struggle against narrow, oppressive definitions - of race, instrumental appropriateness and musical genre.

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It is the first of what is expected to be dozens of ‘America First’ global health agreements.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- A Ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has voiced concern over reports that US-based technology companies are restricting social media access for individuals targeted by the Tanzanian government -- including activists living in the United States.