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Tunisians elect a law professor as new president

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Tunisian voters have elected a retired law professor, Kais Saied as their new president after Sunday’s presidential run-off poll. Saied is set to become Tunisia’s next president after securing over 70 percent of votes in the run-off election. He beat his only challenger in the election, media mogul Nabil Karoui, who is facing charges of money laundering and tax fraud.… Read More
Africa Featured Nigeria News and Headlines West Africa World 

Nigeria’s first lady returns after ‘Buhari wedding’ rumours

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Nigeria’s First Lady Aisha Buhari returned home on Saturday after months abroad. Mrs Buhari had been on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia and also spent some time in the UK. She however returned to Nigeria amid rumours of her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari intending to take a second wife. Rumours were extremely rife in Nigeria that the planned wedding between the… Read More
Africa Egypt North Africa Technology World 

Egypt launches ICT project for persons with disability in Africa

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Egypt has launched a project in Information and Communication Technologies ICT aimed at empowering Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in Africa. Over 120 African youth have so far benefited from a fully funded ICT project which entailed a comprehensive training program coordinated by the National Academy of Information Technology for persons with disabilities (NAID) in Cairo. Under the fully funded grant… Read More
Africa Nigeria News and Headlines West Africa World 

Nigeria’s border closure sparks protests from ECOWAS countries

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Since August 20, 2019, Nigeria has closed its borders with some of its neighbouring West African countries. Borders in four geopolitical zones across the country, including South-South, South-West, North-Central and North-West have been closed. The government took the decision in an attempt to stop what it calls smuggling activities at it’s borders. Rice is one of the commodities mostly smuggled… Read More
Africa Business World 

Avoiding Mistakes: Top corporations that failed in partnership

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Strategic partnerships between brands are as old as the establishment of the first businesses in the world. Partnering is a very effective strategy to achieve goals that a business could never achieve on its own. Business partnerships can allow brands to reach new markets, gain greater distribution, and attract more customers. There are lots of successful strategic partnerships in the… Read More
Africa East Africa Sports World 

Kenya’s Olympic marathon champion wants to meet Obama

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Kenyan marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge has requested for a meeting with former US President Barack Obama. On Saturday Eliud Kipchoge become the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours. He covered the 42.2km distance in one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Austria’s capital, Vienna. It will not be recognised as the… Read More
Africa East Africa Featured World 

Tanzania’s presidency finally moves to new capital city

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Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has announced that he has moved the government base to the country’s new capital city, Dodoma. On Saturday the President said the eventual movement to Dodoma from the largest city of Dar es Salaam has taken place. Tanzania’s founding president Julius Nyerere hatched the idea of the movement of the presidency to Dodoma in 1973. It… Read More
Africa Central Africa Featured World 

DR Congo: New Ebola vaccine to be used in November

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A new and second model of an Ebola vaccine is to be introduced in the Democratic Republic of Congo in November this year. Health officials in the country say this is to help combat the spread of the deadly virus in the country’s eastern provinces. The Johnson & Johnson manufactured vaccine will now be introduced to compliment that of Merck.… Read More
Africa East Africa World 

Kenya: Families receive bodies of Ethiopian Airlines crash victims

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Bodies of Kenyan victims of the Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed in Addis Ababa in March have arrived in Kenya. The bodies arrived on Monday at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport where families of 32 Kenyan victims gathered to receive them ahead of burial on Thursday. The airliner crash killed all 157 people on board with victims coming from 30… Read More
Africa Featured Mozambique Southern Africa World 

Mozambique: Campaigns end ahead of Tuesday’s elections

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Campaigning has ended in Mozambique ahead of crucial presidential, legislative and provincial elections on Tuesday. Four candidates are contesting the presidency but 26 parties and other coalitions are seeking control in legislative and provincial elections. Six opposition parties have also signed a cooperation pact to prevent electoral fraud. These parties are Renamo, MDM, New Democracy, Amusi, Podemos, and the Ecologists.… Read More
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