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[allAfrica] Tension High in Sharpeville Following Violent Protests

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A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond.

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At least seven people were killed and six others were injured at a Café located near a police training facility in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia after a Suicide bomber set off an unknown device as reported by the police on Thursday.

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[New Zimbabwe] The government says it has started assessing how best it can assist traders from Zimbabwe's largest retail market, Mbare Musika who lost wares worth millions of dollars in a recent fire.

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[New Zimbabwe] THE Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) bill sailed through in the Senate this Thursday.

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[New Zimbabwe] MINISTER of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi has endorsed the proposal for elected councillors and legislators to attend ZANU PF's Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology.

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[VOA] Washington -- Police in Somalia say a suicide bomber killed at least seven people Thursday when he detonated an explosives-laden vest in front of a crowded restaurant in the capital, Mogadishu.

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[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- Authorities in Nigeria have announced plans to review safety protocols for the transportation of gasoline after a deadly tanker accident and explosion in Jigawa state killed more than 140 people Wednesday.

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[Capital FM] Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has made history as the first Deputy President in Kenya to be impeached.

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[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Civilians in Chad say many businesses are at a standstill since an internet outage that began Tuesday morning.

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[RFI] Controversial activist Kemi Seba, known for his fiercely anti-Western, pan-Africanist stance, has been released from French custody without charges, two days after he was arrested in Paris.

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[Business Day Africa] Kenya Airways (KQ) has cancelled its flights to Somalia, less than a year after reintroducing the route, citing difficult operating conditions.

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[The New Humanitarian] Dakar -- 'The idea that migration needs to be reduced at all costs is completely misguided.'

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[The Conversation Africa] Zimbabwean writer John Eppel's literary career has always been defined by one peculiar trait. He publishes fictional work, in stark contrast to the majority of the country's other white writers who have fetishised the autobiographical mode.

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[The Conversation Africa] In the heart of Isalo National Park in central-southern Madagascar, at least 200km from the sea in any direction, is a remote valley with a mysterious past. This place, Teniky, can only be reached on foot, by hiking through a mountainous region dissected by steep canyons.

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[African Arguments] The financial institutions' current approaches to funding renewable energy projects are far too limited, rigid, and opaque.

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[VOA] Gaborone, Botswana -- Botswana's election commission is warning opposition parties against what it calls "reckless" claims of poll rigging ahead of the October 30 general election, even as some opposition leaders insist that cheating is happening.

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[VOA] Nairobi, Kenya -- Kenyan lawmakers voted Thursday to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office over accusations of gross misconduct, irregular acquisition of wealth, undermining of the president and ethnic division, among other charges.

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[InfoWire] How can Africa's infrastructure become more resilient to climate change? A question that has become imperative as extreme climatic events such as floods, droughts and desertification multiply across many African countries, increasing the vulnerability of their already fragile infrastructure.

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In 2015, the One Direction fever hit South Africa as the group performed there. According to a preliminary autopsy report, Payne died of “multiple trauma” and “internal and external hemorrhage,” as the result of the fall from the balcony of a third-floor room at the hotel on Wednesday (Oct. 16).

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In a dramatic day in parliament, senators vote to oust Rigathi Gachagua following his impeachment.