KIGALI, Rwanda, Sep 15 - Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire was unexpectedly freed from jail on Saturday after President Paul Kagame permitted her early release, alongside two thousand other prisoners. "I thank the president who gave me this
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Fish shortage sparks conflict on Africa’s Great Lakes
RWENSHAMA, Uganda, Sept 14 - Ugandan navy speedboats sliced through murky Lake Edward towards a fleet of wooden canoes carrying illegal fishermen from the Democratic Republic of Congo, hightailing it back to their own waters. "Stop the boat, hands up,
Slaughtered rhino embodies S.Africa’s poaching crisis
SKUKUZA, South Africa, Sept 14 - The mutilated carcass of a female white rhino, who had given birth just months ago, lay rotting on a hill beside a road that meanders through South Africa's Kruger National Park. Insects feasted on the 18-year-old animal,
Salva Kiir and Riek Machar sign revitalized agreement to end S.Sudan conflict
ADDIS Ababa, Ethiopia, Sep 13 - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed a much-anticipated peace deal on Wednesday, the latest attempt to end five years of a vicious civil war that's torn the world's youngest nation apart.
Final farewell to UN’s Kofi Annan at Ghana state funeral
Accra, Ghana, Sep 13 - World dignitaries laid to rest former UN secretary general Kofi Annan in his native Ghana on Thursday, with calls to keep alive the legacy of a "stubborn optimist" to create a better, more peaceful world.His widow Nane Maria led
Zimbabwe cholera deaths at 24, drugs resistant: WHO
Harare, Zimbabwe, Sep 13 - The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has risen to 24 with first-line antibiotics struggling to treat the disease which has spread from the capital, a World Health Organisation report said Thursday."A cumulative
Ahead of funeral, Ghanaians bid farewell to Kofi Annan
Accra, Ghana, Sep 11 - A steady stream of mourners on Tuesday paid their respects to the former UN secretary general Kofi Annan as he lay in state in the capital of his native Ghana.The diplomat's body was flown back from Switzerland on Monday ahead
S.Africa ‘close to war zone’ with 57 murders a day: minister
Cape Town, South Africa, Sep 11 - South Africa's murder rate rose again last year, official statistics showed Tuesday, with over 20,000 killed across the country -- about 57 a day -- as police admitted they were struggling to keep control.A total of
Ethiopia-Eritrea land border to reopen after 20 years
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Sept 11 - The land border between Ethiopia and Eritrea is to reopen Tuesday allowing citizens of both countries to cross over for the first time in two decades. Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea's President Isaias
Nigeria: tackling corruption with a children’s book
LAGOS, Nigeria, Sept 11 - Bribery is a fact of life for most people in Nigeria, whether it's a daily "dash" of a few naira to traffic police or payment of an "administration fee" to speed up maddening bureaucracy. On another level there's the preferential
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In Kenya, it’s not fake news, it’s fake dues
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Campaign financing and corruption in Kenya
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Yes, the medicine is bitter but Kenya requires it
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