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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto has announced plans to exempt Kenyans earning KSh30,000 and below from paying income tax, saying the proposal is aimed at easing the burden on low-income earners despite the expected impact on government revenue.
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Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus travels to the eastern province of Ituri, the epicentre of the current outbreak, on Friday.
[New Zimbabwe] PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has directed government departments and agencies responsible for road safety to urgently coordinate efforts to curb rising fatalities on Zimbabwe's roads following three major accidents in five days which killed 24 people.
[Capital FM] Nakuru -- Officials investigating the deadly dormitory fire at Utumishi Girls Academy have confirmed that only seven of the 16 victims have so far been positively identified.
[DW] Ethiopia will hold its seventh national election on June 1, 2026. The vote takes place as Gulf states compete for influence in the region and the rivalry between Ethiopia and Egypt over the Nile intensifies.
The verdict has sparked outrage among the civil parties with their lawyers already saying they plan to appeal.
[Daily Maverick] Water levels in nearly one-third of the boreholes investigated in a recent global study are dropping steadily, mainly due to unsustainable pumping rates to irrigate crops or to supply the human population and industrial growth.
[Nile Post] Parliament has approved a constitutional variation increasing the number of Cabinet Ministers and Ministers of State, formally regularising President Museveni's latest executive appointments and reigniting debate over patronage, governance efficiency and public expenditure.
[Vanguard] ABUJA -- The Presidency has raised alarm over what it described as a growing wave of deepfake videos and manipulated online content aimed at weaponising religion for political purposes ahead of the election season.
[WHO] In response to the current outbreak of Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus occurring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with cases also reported in Uganda, WHO convened several of its expert and advisory groups. These groups assessed potential vaccines and therapeutics for both prevention and treatment of Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD). The WHO advisory groups recommended that all the products identified and considered be used exclusively within clinical trials to generate robust data and
[Leadership] The Presidency has raised alarm over what it described as a coordinated attempt to weaponise religion and deploy deepfake content to discredit President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ahead of the 2027 political season.
[ANGOP] Mbanza Kongo -- Angola has registered so far a total 13 positive cases of monkeypox in the northern provinces of Cabinda and Uige, the country's Health minister, Silvia Lutucuta, announced on Thursday.
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[CPJ] Abuja -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerian authorities to swiftly identify and hold to account at least 15 men who assaulted journalist Allwell Ene as he was investigating an alleged phone scam in the southern city of Port Harcourt.
[Daba Finance] The Bank of Ghana suspended a proposed 0.75% fee on mobile money-to-bank transfers by MTN Ghana's fintech unit, stopping the charge before it was set to take effect on June 1.
[Daba Finance] Daniel Yu, co-founder of Wasoko, launched the Africa Jobs Fund, a philanthropic investment fund seeking to mobilise $100 million over the next 5 years to back companies creating jobs across Africa.
[Dabanga] Khartoum / Port Sudan / El Geneina / Zamzam Camp / -- Sudan's rival leaders used Eid El Adha speeches to promote sharply competing visions for the country's future, as political forces reacted to a new call for dialogue amid the continuing war.
[UN News] The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) headed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday as the country continues to combat a deadly resurgence of Ebola in its volatile eastern region where instability is rife.
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Annual meetings 2026 am2026: The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Wednesday launched the Humanitarian
