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85% of the sub-Saharan region is covered by networks but only 25% of people use it according to the mobile lobby group GSMA, now a company in Ghana has a plan to close this digital gap.
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"An attempted coup d'etat has been put down by the defence and security forces. The attempt involved foreigners and Congolese. These foreigners and Congolese have been put out of action, including their leader," spokesman Sylvain Ekenge said.
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At least three people were killed in the attack in the capital Kinshasa.
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That's what one paramedic says of the targeting of ambulance crews. Criminals are after phones and wallets along with medical equipment and drugs. We ride along with a Cape Town crew in a Red Zone.
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SaharaReporters reported in April that the Nigerian government had directed the management of the airline to suspend its commercial operations over safety concerns.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo's armed forces have repelled an attempted coup d'etat involving Congolese and foreign fighters, a DRC army spokesperson has said in a televised address.
KINSHASA — Congo's army says it has “foiled a coup” early Sunday morning and arrested the perpetrators, including several foreigners, following a shootout between armed men in military uniform and a top politician’s guards that left three people dead in the capital, Kinshasa.
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The DR Congo military on Sunday thwarted an attempted coup near the offices of President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa involving "foreigners and Congolese", the army spokesperson said.
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The US trip was also announced in an official press statement put on the state government’s website.
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Anthony Olubunmi George, 61, has been refused leave to remain despite living most of his adult life in Britain
A disabled man who has lived in the UK for 38 years has been ...
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South Africa's expatriate community in the UK, some 25,000 people strong, headed to the polls on Saturday to cast their ballots in the general election. With some polls suggesting that the ANC may not receive 50 percent of the vote, there's a possibility of a coalition government. Story by...
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Sources told SaharaReporters that military personnel at a checkpoint along Port Harcourt Road had been accused of extorting money from the commercial and private motorists plying intra/interstate routes.
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“My biggest problem is that we (South Africa) has too many political parties. Too much. They are the cause of our people's suffering even more. They take money from white people’s money so they can sit in parliament.” Jacob Zuma, uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) leader
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Mosquito populations can respond quickly to changing climate, which means the location of areas at risk of malaria might change.
Mark Smith, Professor of Water Science & Heath, University of Leeds
Chris Thomas, Global Professor in Water & Planetary Health,...
For the vulnerable millions in eastern DRC, it is not enough that international courts exist.
Kerstin Bree Carlson, Associate Professor International Law, Roskilde University
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Innocent Kasereka sits in a rundown hospital in the war-torn east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), his neck bandaged where he was slashed with a knife.
He recounts how he became caught in the middle of the conflict raging between rebels of the M23 (...
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According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, heavy rains and flash floods have affected nearly 1 million people in east Africa including over 300 000 displaced, in Kenya, Somalia, Burundi and Tanzania.
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Ex-President Jacob holds a rally in the historic township of Soweto as he returns to the political front line.
BBC News - Africa
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Babachir Lawal, has asserted that the announcement of fuel subsidy removal by President Bola Tinubu on the day of his inauguration on May 29, 2023, was what culminated to the collapse of Nigeria. This is just as he said: the use of...
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In an unprecedented feat in boxing’s four-belt era, Oleksandr Usyk beat Tyson Fury by scoring a razor-thin split decision to win the world’s first undisputed heavyweight championship in 25 years. Africa Today News, New York reports that the United Kingdom’s Fury was the early aggressor but Usyk...
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