GABON: ROSE CHRISTIANE OSSOUKA RAPONDA IS APPOINTED FIRST WOMAN PRIME MINISTER
Gabon president Ali Bongo Ondimba on Thursday named a new Prime Minister in the person of Madame Rose Christiane Ossouka
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SOUTH AFRICA: SHOCK AS ZINDZI MANDELA, DAUGHTER OF MADIBA NELSON MANDELA, IS REPORTED DEAD
Zindzi Mandela, daughter of South African liberation hero Nelson Mandela and anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died, according to officials.
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COTE D’IVOIRE: RULING PARTY MAY ASK OUATTARA TO STAND AGAIN AFTER PM DIES
Cote D’Ivoire’s ruling party may ask President Alassane Ouattara to rethink his decision not to stand for a third term,
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GAMBIA: WILL GAMBIA’S TRANSITION STAY ON COURSE AS JUSTICE MINISTER QUITS?
Abubakarr Tambadou, Gambia’s Minister of Justice, resigned on June 25 to join a United Nations international tribunal. Tambadou has been
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MALAWI: I WILL STILL CLAMPDOWN ON CORRUPTION IN SPITE OF THE PRESENCE OF COVID-19 – NEW PREZ CHAKWERA
Malawi’s new President Lazarus Chakwera pledged to clamp down on corruption on Monday, as he delivered his inauguration speech in
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MALAWI: LAZARUS CHAKWERA SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT, PROMISES TO UNITE MALAWI
Lazarus Chakwera was sworn in as Malawi’s new leader on Sunday, a day after trouncing Peter Mutharika in a court-ordered
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ZAMBIA: HEALTH MINISTER ARRESTED FOR CORRUPTION
ZAMBIA’S Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya has been arrested on suspicion of corruption, an anti-graft body said on Wednesday. Chilufya, 47,
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COTE D’IVOIRE: ICC PROSECUTORS CITE GRAVE ERRORS IN GBAGBO ACQUITTAL AT START OF APPEAL
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) said ‘grave errors’ were made in acquittal last year of former Cote d’Ivoire
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SOUTH AFRICA: AFRIFORUM RELEASES REPORT ON CHINA’S INCREASING INFLUENCE IN AFRICA
The South African civil rights organisation AfriForum and the think tank Opinor on June 21 released a report on China’s
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MALI: ECOWAS COMPELS MALI TO RE-RUN DISPUTED ELECTIONS AMID MASS PROTESTS
West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Saturday called on Mali to re-run some of its contested local elections and convene
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