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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Nairobi City County has confirmed that the South C building that collapsed earlier Friday had been cited repeatedly by enforcement teams even as specialised Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) units remain on site searching for possible victims.

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[SAnews.gov.za] Over 300 babies were born across Gauteng public health facilities on New Year's Day.

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[263Chat] Police in Guruve have arrested five members of the same family in connection with the murder of a 54-year-old man whose disappearance was reported days after Christmas.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Police say a pedestrian who was struck by flying debris from a collapsed 16-storey building in Nairobi's South C area is in stable condition at Mbagathi Hospital, as rescue teams continue efforts to establish whether more victims may be trapped under the rubble.

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[Premium Times] President Adama Barrow unveiled a plaque on Wednesday formally designating the faculty as the Dr Akinwumi Adesina School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences.

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[Premium Times] Mr Babatunde said the attack was a revenge mission following the loss of some of the bandits' fighters to superior military firepower during an earlier encounter last week.

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[Lesotho Times] THE ongoing passport issuance crisis is more than an administrative backlog, it is a mirror reflecting deeper governance failures that continue to burden ordinary Basotho, particularly those whose livelihoods depend on cross-border work in South Africa.

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[The Conversation Africa] As Kenya's cities grew, more and more people left their rural homes and subsistence farming systems to go to urban settlements like Mombasa to find work. In the city, meals were paid for with cash, a major transformation in Kenya's food systems.

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[RFI] The Democratic Republic of Congo returns to the United Nations Security Council as a non-permanent member for the 2026-2027 term for the first time in more than three decades, hoping to keep the armed crisis in its eastern provinces high on the council's agenda.

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[allAfrica] The respected Brussels-based think tank, the International Crisis Group, has identified three conflicts in Africa as among the 10 world-wide which - following a violence-wracked 2025 - are expected to continue and which should receive most attention in 2026. The ICG's list of "conflicts to watch" include those affecting Sudan, Mali and Burkina Faso, and the tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea. The following is the group's analysis of the situations in Mali

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Kenya woke up to another construction disaster after a multi storey building collapsed in Nairobi's South C area, trapping an unknown number of people.

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[allAfrica] The respected Brussels-based think tank, the International Crisis Group, has identified three conflicts in Africa as among the 10 world-wide which - following a violence-wracked 2025 - are expected to continue and which should receive most attention in 2026. The ICG's list of "conflicts to watch" include those in Ethiopia and Eritrea, Mali and Burkina Faso and Sudan. The following is the group's analysis of the tensions which plague Ethiopia and Eritrea. (Read the ICG's over-arching

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A multi-story building in Kenya’s capital Nairobi collapsed on Friday, leaving a unknown number of people trapped beneath the rubble.

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[allAfrica] The respected Brussels-based think tank, the International Crisis Group, has identified three conflicts in Africa as among the 10 world-wide which - following a violence-wracked 2025 - are expected to continue in 2026. The ICG's list of "conflicts to watch" include those in Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea and Mali and Burkina Faso. The following is the group's analysis of that which plagues Sudan. (Read the ICG's over-arching commentary on the 10 conflicts here:

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Gabon’s President Brice Oligui Nguema started the New Year with a major government reshuffle.

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Traoré reaffirmed Burkina Faso’s sovereign foreign policy, welcoming partners who respect national independence while rejecting external pressures.

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Morocco fans are starting to get excited about their team’s chances of winning the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. But they’re wary of facing Egypt in the final.

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Ukraine's sixth-largest city Zaporizhzhia was targeted overnight by two Russian aerial strikes, causing fires and damage but no casualties.

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Libyan authorities say Britain has formally agreed to provide technical and legal support for the investigation, with findings to be made public once analysis is complete.

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Thousands gathered at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo as Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako greeted them for the new year. Emperor's nephew Hisahito joined the event for the first time.

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[Liberian Observer] The Liberty Party (LP) has closed the year 2025 renewed, united, and strategically repositioned, with its National Chairperson, Representative Rugie Yatu Barry, declaring the Party firmly set on consolidation, expansion, and preparation for the 2029 general elections.