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Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:20:21 +0000
News24.com | Mozambique’s former finance minister remains in South African prison after case postponed
Mozambique’s former finance minister will spend at least three more weeks in a South African prison after the hearing was postponed to September.

Fri, 27 Aug 2021 13:57:54 +0000
News24.com | Uganda says it foiled attack on 'Lion of Mogadishu's funeral
Uganda has said it had foiled a suicide bomb attack against the state funeral of a top police and army commander who led a major African Union offensive against al-Shabaab.

Fri, 27 Aug 2021 11:59:56 +0000
News24.com | Nigerian gunmen free dozens of kidnapped pupils, says head teacher
Nigerian gunmen have freed the remaining pupils from more than 100 kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in northwestern Niger State nearly three months ago.

Fri, 27 Aug 2021 11:16:20 +0000
News24.com | Justice dept to oppose bid to stop extradition of Mozambique's former finance minister
A group of Mozambican civil society organisations approached the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg to overturn minister Ronald Lamola’s order to hand former finance minister Manuel Chang over to Mozambican authorities.

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 12:36:38 +0000
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Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:14:57 +0000
News24.com | Nine killed as crane collapses in Nairobi
Nine people, including two Chinese, were killed and two others injured after a crane collapsed at a construction site in Kenya's capital Nairobi, police said.

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:53:38 +0000
News24.com | WHO begins shipping Chinese vaccines despite some misgivings
The World Health Organization's pandemic programme plans to ship 100 million doses of the Sinovac and Sinopharm Covid-19 shots by the end of next month, mostly to Africa and Asia, in its first delivery of Chinese vaccines, a WHO document shows.

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:40:03 +0000
News24.com | Arab League, OIC call for Algeria-Morocco dialogue amid spat
The two groups and Saudi Arabia decry the diplomatic rift and ask the North African rivals to resolve the conflict.

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:27:04 +0000
News24.com | 'SA govt should speak out.' Nigerian tax tumult hits MultiChoice
South African companies are being hit by Nigerian regulatory woes and an analyst says it is time for the SA government to act.

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 07:03:25 +0000
News24.com | Ethiopia announces fresh delays to polls
Ethiopian authorities have postponed polls in around a fifth of the country's constituencies, extending a months-long delay which prevented citizens from voting in a June election due to ethnic violence and logistical problems.

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 19:29:53 +0000
News24.com | Gunmen kill 36 villagers in Nigeria's divided Plateau state
Attackers shot dead at least 36 people and destroyed buildings in a night raid on a village near the central Nigerian city of Jos, officials said, in an area hit by repeated ethnic clashes.

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 17:33:47 +0000
News24.com | Attacker kills three police and security guard near French embassy in Tanzania
An attacker wielding an assault rifle was shot dead after killing three police and an employee of a private security company near the French embassy in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said.

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 14:21:22 +0000
News24.com | US 'dismayed' by South Africa's decision to extradite former finance minister to Mozambique
Manuel Chang is accused of defrauding investors around the world in Mozambique's $2 billion hidden debt corruption scandal.

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 13:29:37 +0000
News24.com | US, EU warn of influx of Eritrean troops in Ethiopia's Tigray
The US and EU are raising alarm over the recent deployment of troops from Eritrea to Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:12:42 +0000
News24.com | Zimbabwe to use R7.5bn portion of IMF funding to prop up its currency
Zimbabwe will use more than half of the about R14 billion allocated to it by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to support its beleaguered currency.

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 09:51:52 +0000
News24.com | Afghan refugees arrive in Uganda, says foreign ministry
A flight carrying Afghan evacuees fleeing the Taliban takeover of their country has touched down in Uganda where they will be given temporary refuge.

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 19:09:28 +0000
News24.com | PICS | Hakainde Hichilema promises to renew Zambia's economy as he's sworn in as president
In an inauguration that hosted both heads of state and opposition leaders, including President Cyril Ramaphosa and Mmusi Maimane, newly elected President Hakainde Hichilema promised to restore the economy and stamp out corruption.

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 19:01:20 +0000
News24.com | Nigeria approves Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, expects 7.7 million doses
Nigeria has recently approved China's Sinopharm vaccine against Covid-19, the head of the country's primary healthcare agency said.

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 15:27:19 +0000
News24.com | Chad's former dictator Hissene Habre reportedly dies from Covid-19 while serving life sentence
Hissene Habre, the first African leader convicted of war crimes, has died at the age of 79.

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:51:29 +0000
News24.com | Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema takes office in boost for democracy
Zambia's newly-elected leader Hakainde Hichilema takes office after a comprehensive election victory hailed as a rare triumph over authoritarianism.



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