Portrait of Doreen Nyanjura, Deputy Mayor of Kampala, at the City Hall offices in Kampala, Uganda.
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‘People find us easy targets’: Women politicians face a torrent of online abuse but say they won’t stop their work
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Thabo Mbeki Fast Facts
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Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu sworn in as president, facing divided nation and economic woes
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Ugandan president signs one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ bills into law
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Nearly 1.4 million people displaced in Sudan since civil war erupted, UN report says
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Al-Shabaab militants launch deadly attack on African Union base in Somalia
Eritrean forces stop UN mission in Tigray, Ethiopia, aid workers tell CNN
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US sanctions Wagner in Mali, confirms CNN investigation on support to Sudan paramilitaries
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Most wanted Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in South Africa after decades on the run
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As Sudanese refugees flee horrors of war, poverty-stricken Chad is struggling to help
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‘We’re humans’: P-Square on their breakup, reuniting and a new album in the works
Seun Kuti turned himself in to authorities on Monday.
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Nigerian musician Seun Kuti in court after arrest for alleged police assault
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
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US imposes visa bans on Nigerians who disrupted elections
The Kenya Wildlife Service meets with local residents to address human-wildlife conflict in Kajiado South Sub County.
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Ten lions killed in Kenya as conflict between humans and wild animals worsens
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Their son was banned from school for 3 years because of his dreadlocks
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As the West surges toward electric cars, here’s where the unwanted gas guzzlers go
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Six more bodies recovered after hippo capsized boat in Malawi
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Almost 250,000 flee floods in Somali city that ‘became like an ocean’
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Hundreds killed as fighting worsens in Sudanese region of West Darfur
Toddler dead, 23 others missing as hippo capsizes boat in Malawi
Nigerian chef Hilda Bassey cooks for 100 hours in world record attempt
Four killed after US convoy attacked in Nigeria
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One of Africa’s oldest lions killed in Kenya, conservationists say
South Africa loaded arms onto sanctioned Russian vessel, US ambassador tells local media
Babies found alive on Congolese lake after devastating floods kill hundreds
At least 15 dead after boat capsizes in Nigeria