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UK’s Charles takes inter-faith, climate mission to Egypt

Cairo – Britain’s Prince Charles met Egypt’s president and the head of Sunni Islam’s prestigious Al-Azhar institution on Thursday in... Read more

19 Nov, 2021

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African, US envoys back in Ethiopia in push to end war

Addis Ababa – Top diplomats from the African Union and United States returned to Ethiopia on Thursday as part of... Read more

19 Nov, 2021

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Kenya sacks top prison boss; At least 15 shot dead in Sudan’s anti-coup protests | Here are your top news headlines

Cape Town – From Kenya’s president sacking the country’s top prisons boss; to Sudanese security forces shooting dead at... Read more

19 Nov, 2021

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Blinken demands Sudan allow peaceful protests after deadly day

Abuja – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday condemned the killing a day earlier of Sudanese protesters... Read more

18 Nov, 2021

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Two mountain gorillas born in DRC’s Virunga park

Goma – Two new-born mountain gorillas have further boosted the endangered species’ baby boom underway in the Democratic Republic of... Read more

18 Nov, 2021

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Kenyan police capture ‘terror’ prison escapees

Nairobi – Kenyan police on Thursday said they captured three terror inmates who had escaped from a high-security jail in... Read more

18 Nov, 2021

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A hero abroad, FW de Klerk’s evasiveness drew ire in South Africa

Johannesburg – Four activists abducted and murdered. A man pushed to his death from a police building. Five teenagers... Read more

18 Nov, 2021

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Cyril Ramaphosa submits list of 4 candidates for chief justice position

Cape Town – President Cyril Ramaphosa has submitted a list of four candidates for the position of South Africa’s... Read more

18 Nov, 2021

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Surrendered Nigeria jihadists riot in tense northeast

Kano – Hundreds of Nigerian Boko Haram jihadists who are being held in a camp after surrendering to the military... Read more

18 Nov, 2021

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DRC lawmakers urge reparations over illegal mining

Kinshasa – Lawmakers probing illegal mining by foreign-owned firms in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday recommended fines and... Read more

18 Nov, 2021