Anxious parents gather outside Hillside Endarasha Primary Academy in Nyeri, Kenya. Fri 06 September 2024: The death toll in a fire at central Kenyan school early Friday morning has risen to 17, authorities confirmed. The blaze broke out at Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) north of Nairobi, engulfing a […]
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Fri 06 September 2024: Beijing, China – President Cyril Ramaphosa says he does not believe that China invests in countries on the African continent with the intention of putting them in debt. “Our experience is that China seeks to promote a mutually beneficial relationship with countries it engages with on the continent,” the President said on […]
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Thu 05 September 2024: The head of Uganda’s Olympic Committee announced that Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei passed away four days after her boyfriend set her on fire. “We have learnt of the sad passing on of our Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei … following a vicious attack by her boyfriend,” Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC) President Donald […]
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Thu 05 September 2024: Beijing, China – China will voluntarily and unilaterally open its markets wider for African countries, says President Xi Jinping. Delivering his keynote address at the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing, China, Chinese President Xi said China has decided to give all least developed countries (LDCs), which have diplomatic relations […]
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Wed 04 September 2024: Police Minister Senzo Mchunu says police are hard at work fighting extortion and other related crimes in parts of the country on a daily basis. “The modus operandi of the perpetrators involved in these heinous acts is well known. Most of them are individuals who do not want to work but […]
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Wed 04 September 2024: Heavy rains and torrential floods that hit Yemen during the period between April and August 2024 have directly affected more than 420,000 people and destroyed thousands of homes, temporary shelters for the displaced, and infrastructure, a new report revealed on Monday. “About 63,195 families, consisting of about 424,123 people, were directly […]
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Wed 04 September 2024: Democratic Republic of Congo’s government said at least 129 people were killed while trying to escape from the central Makala prison in the capital Kinshasa early on Monday, adding that the situation was now under control. In a statement posted on X early on Tuesday, Interior Minister Shabani Lukoo said a […]
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Wed 04 September 2024: The transport department received criticism for a “lack of transparency” surrounding its appointment of a French company to roll out smart driver’s licence cards. The preferred bidder, Idemia, was dropped by Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) just last week. On Monday, the department announced its preferred bidder to print the new licence […]
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Wed 04 September 2024: South Africa’s Growth Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 0.4% in the second quarter of 2024 with finance, real estate and the business services industry contributing most to the growth. This is according to Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) which released the GDP results on Tuesday. “The finance, real estate and business […]
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Tue 03 September 2024: Nearly 60 percent of young Africans want to leave their countries because their governments are not reining in corruption, according to a new poll of youth across 16 African nations. They cited corruption as the biggest obstacle to progress, according to the 2024 African Youth Survey published on Tuesday. The poll […]
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