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Editor 24 September 2024 No Comment

Late snowstorms batter South Africa’s coast and leave 2 people dead

By Associated Press JOHANNESBURG: Unseasonably late snowstorms battered coastal areas of South Africa over the weekend, killing two people and
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Leading opposition Chadema party figure Tundu Lissu
Editor 24 September 2024 No Comment

Police arrest 8 of Tanzania’s main opposition figures ahead of planned protests

By Associated Press NAIROBI: Police arrested Tanzania’s most prominent opposition figures Monday whose party has called for protests against what
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Editor 22 September 2024 No Comment

UGANDA: Museveni’s so ends 2026 presidential election bid; backs his father

By Reuters KAMPALA: The son of Uganda’s long-serving leader Yoweri Museveni said on Saturday he had abandoned plans to run for
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Editor 22 September 2024 No Comment

Ghana’s VP and former president among 13 candidates for presidency

By Reuters ACCRA: Ghana’s electoral commission on Friday published a list of 13 candidates approved to run in the presidential
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Several families of South African political activists who were buried in Zimbabwe have travelled to exhume and repatriate their mortal remains and bring them back to South Africa.
Editor 19 September 2024 No Comment

South African families in Zimbabwe to exhume, repatriate remains of political activists who died in

By IOL News Several South African families, whose relatives were political activists who migrated and later died and were buried
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Editor 18 September 2024 No Comment

Zimbabwe and Namibia will kill scores of elephants to feed people facing drought

By Associated Press HARARE: Zimbabwe and Namibia have announced plans to slaughter hundreds of wild elephants and other animals to
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WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Editor 17 September 2024 No Comment

GENEVA: WTO’s Nigerian head seeks second term to complete ‘unfinished business’

By Reuters GENEVA: WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will seek another four-year term as head of the World Trade Organization following
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Tesla and SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Musk
Editor 17 September 2024 No Comment

Trump Assassination Attempt: US Secret Service says aware of Musk post about Biden, Harris

By Reuters WASHINGTON: The U.S. Secret Service said on Monday it was aware of a post by billionaire Elon Musk
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Exhumations performed in Lusaka.
Editor 16 September 2024 No Comment

SOUTH AFRICA: Exiles’ remains to be repatriated from Zambia and Zimbabwe

By Argus CAPE TOWN: The human remains of 55 South African exiles, notably liberation stalwarts, buried in Zambia and Zimbabwe
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Editor 15 September 2024 No Comment

Botswana’s exiled ex-leader Khama returns home, court suspends warrants

By Reuters GABORONE: Botswana’s ex-president Ian Khama appeared in court on Friday to face charges of illegally owning a gun
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