Africa

US ambassador to South Africa Reuben Brigety has apologised for his remarks on arms sales to Russia after meeting with International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor on Friday.
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Mthokozisi Thwala says he did not see Kelly Khumalo running to a bedroom on the night Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa was killed.
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South Africans were left angry and baffled on Friday after the US accused their country of secretly shipping arms to Russia, a charge that triggered both a government rebuke but also the announcement of an inquiry. US ambassador Reuben…
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Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema said his copper-rich country needs to forge diverse economic partnerships worldwide to extract itself from a debt burden he described as a "python around our necks."
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A UK court on Friday jailed Nigeria's former deputy Senate president for nine years and eight months, following his landmark conviction for plotting to harvest a man's kidney for his sick daughter.
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Nigerian troops have found two of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram jihadists nine years ago, bringing to 14 the abducted girls found by troops in recent years, the military said.
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Government has assured Zimbabweans facing an uncertain future in South Africa, following the expiration of their permits as the grace period to be in the neighboring country draws to an end on 30 June, that measures are being put in place…
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Fr. Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, a Rwandan Catholic Priest considered a “key mastermind” of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda has been, “not subject to any appeal”, dismissed from clerical duties. The dismissed Catholic Priest was “found to have…
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One of Kenya's most famous televangelists has been released on bail, after appearing in court in connection with the deaths of more than 100 people - thought to have been members of a doomsday cult.
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The assault on a radio presenter during a live broadcast has been greeted by outrage in Ghana. Abubakari Sadiq Gariba, a broadcaster at Dagbon FM in the northern city of Tamale, was live on air on Wednesday when two men stormed into the…
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