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President Gnassingbe's UNIR party won 108 of the house's 113 seats. The divisive vote followed constitutional amendments earlier this year which could further extend Gnassingbe's 19-year rule.
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LOME, Togo — Togo's ruling party has won 108 out of 113 seats in parliament, according to the final provisional results of last month's legislative election announced on Friday.
The sweeping majority secured by President Faure Gnassingbe's UNIR party follows the approval of controversial...
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MOLEPOLOLE, Botswana — At least 44 people who died in a horrific bus crash during Easter weekend in South Africa were laid to rest in neighboring Botswana on Saturday.
About 5,000 mourners clad in black gathered in the Botswana village of Molepolole to pay their last respects nearly a month after...
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By Abdullahi Alhassan, Kaduna
The new Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School Children’s Education, NCAOOSCE, Dr. Muhammad Sani Idris has charged workers of the commission to be dedicated to duty.
Dr. Idris made this known at the...
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By Abdullahi Alhassan, Kaduna
The Chief of Staff to Kaduna state Governor, Sani Liman Kila has said the doors of the state government is always open to members of the press in the state.
This was as he said the Governor Uba Sani led government knows the worth of journalists...
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JUNA, South Sudan — Following an appeal from the United Nations, South Sudan removed recently imposed taxes and fees that had triggered suspension of U.N. food airdrops. Thousands of people in the country depend on aid from the outside.
The U.N. earlier this week urged South Sudanese authorities...
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[allAfrica] The 2024 edition of the AllAfrica Media Leaders' Summit, May 8-10 in Nairobi, Kenya, will feature innovations to leverage the ever-changing media landscape revolutionized by emerging technologies like a digital approach to public debate, innovations from the Newsroom Innovation Youth...
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The sold-out show had the cream of Ghana's talent in the British capital, to the delight of fans.
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The country has not held a presidential poll since the death three years ago of former leader, Idriss Deby Itno, who ruled the country for three decades.
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Chad will hold presidential elections on Monday, making it the first in a string of coup-hit states across Central and West Africa to use the ballot box to try to emerge from years of military rule. The candidate widely expected to win is Mahamat Idriss Deby – the man who seized power the day...
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After several years of poor cocoa harvests, chocolate-makers have already increased prices to consumers.
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Springbok Women head coach Louis Koen expressed his satisfaction with his team’s 55-0 victory over Cameroon in a windy Stade Makis in Antananarivo, Madagascar on Saturday, opening their Rugby Africa […]
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GENEVA — The World Meteorological Organization warns that Tropical Cyclone Hidaya, which is projected to make landfall in Tanzania and Kenya this weekend, threatens to worsen the humanitarian crisis triggered by torrential rains in these and other heavily flooded countries in East Africa.
“Hidaya...
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The United States has accused Rwanda of involvement in a deadly attack on a camp for displaced people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a claim dismissed as "absurd" by Kigali on Saturday.
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The UN food agency says close to two million people in Darfur are experiencing emergency levels of hunger.
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In the border town of Gaya, a 69-year old Nigerien farmer waits for a long-distance truck to take him home. He holds on tight to a bag of fertiliser bought in neighbouring Benin.
Supplies in Niger have grown scarce since 2019 and became even more restricted after...
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Kenyan lawmakers are demanding the dismissal of the nation’s agriculture secretary after government agencies distributed fake fertiliser through a subsidy programme.
A delegation from ECOWAS/ERCA led by Mrs Massandje Toure-Litse, Commissioner for Economic Affairs and Agriculture, accompanied by the Executive Director of ARCC, Dr Simeon Konan KOFFI and representatives of the […]
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