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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has hailed the largely peaceful conduct of demonstrations marking the second anniversary of the June 25, 2024 Gen Z protests, saying security agencies successfully prevented criminal elements from disrupting commemorative events held across the country.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has launched a scathing attack on former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua over claims that his life is in danger, dismissing the allegations as attention-seeking tactics and condemning what he described as the ethnic profiling of senior security officers.

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[New Era] BLOUWES - Recent heavy rainfall accompanied by strong winds in //Kharas has left three homes at Farm Blouwes without roofs, forcing affected households to start from scratch.

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[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned against vigilantism, xenophobia and any attempts to destabilise the country, stressing that the enforcement of immigration laws remains the responsibility of the state.

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[This Day] The federal government has brought another batch of Nigerians from South Africa.

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[New Zimbabwe] GOVERNMENT has spoken out against the illegal sale of state land by traditional headmen, a system that has been informally referred to as Sabhuku Deals.

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[The Conversation Africa] For decades, stories about the ancient Mediterranean have centred on the grand cultures of Greece, Rome, Phoenicia and Egypt. North-west Africa seldom enters the picture before the arrival of Phoenician traders on the Moroccan coast about 3,000 years ago.

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[RFI] A coalition of South African organisations campaigning against undocumented migrants has defended its plans for nationwide demonstrations on 30 June, insisting the marches will be peaceful despite rising tensions and recent deadly unrest.

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Ivory Coast boss Emerse Fae says comments from ex-Germany midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger about their "wild" playing style could be considered racist.

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At a correctional facility in Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest city, visitors are greeted by something unexpected: an art gallery.
The exhibition of inmates' artwork is part of the country’s effort to reduce repeat offending through rehabilitation programs behind bars.

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More than 300 people were arrested during protests in Nairobi on Thursday, police say, as Kenya marked two years since a landmark Gen Z uprising.

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The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to allow states to have their own police forces, paving the way for a major reform that would reshape the policing structure of the conflict-racked nation.

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The three suspects appeared in a Johannesburg court on Thursday for the mass shooting in which 13 people died and 14 others were injured.

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At least 101 million Europeans were expected to experience temperatures of over 35C on Thursday, in a punishing and increasingly deadly heatwave hotter than weather in parts of Africa.

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Two years on, families of those killed during Kenya’s 2024 anti-government protests returned to Parliament to remember their loved ones and demand justice.

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They will begin next week in the DR Congo to see whether two antivirals can help reduce mortality in patients with the rare Bundibugyo strain of the virus.

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A Paris court has ordered French oil giant TotalEnergies to report the environmental consequences of emissions from its oil and gas products and explain how it plans to address them.

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[Daily News] Dar es Salaam -- THE World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Prof Mohamed Janabi, has stressed the importance of rapid patient monitoring and investment in health systems as key pillars of controlling Ebola in Africa.

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[Liberian Observer] Women farmers in Liberia are calling on the government and development partners to increase investment in agriculture, arguing that stronger support for local food production is critical to reducing the country's dependence on imported food and strengthening national food security.

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[ANGOP] Luanda -- Members of the National Assembly rejected, on Thursday (25), a request for an urgent debate regarding the rise in the price of the barrel of oil on the international market, as well as the alleged fuel shortage at service stations across the country.

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[New Times] Women and children in detention across Africa continue to face risks ranging from inadequate reproductive healthcare and poor mental health support to separation from their children and exposure to abuse within systems largely designed around the needs of men, human rights experts warned.