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Death of Tanzania’s Magufuli draws sorrow but ire from some

YoopyaMar 18, 2021June 13, 20230

News of the death of Tanzania’s President John Magufuli drew mixed reactions; sorrow from many but bitterness from a critic who said he suffered during

Tanzania’s populist President John Magufuli has died at 61

YoopyaMar 18, 2021June 13, 20230

President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight,

South Africa’s Zulu king is buried amid praise, controversy

YoopyaMar 18, 2021June 13, 20230

The traditional leader of South Africa’s 12 million Zulu people, King Goodwill Zwelithini, has been laid to rest in a private ceremony early Thursday. Zwelithini,

Central African Republic votes amid tight security after December violence

YoopyaMar 14, 2021June 19, 20230

Central African Republic voted at heavily guarded polling stations in a second round of parliamentary elections on Sunday after rebel violence marred December’s polls. Voting

Ivory Coast Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko dies in Germany at 56

YoopyaMar 11, 2021June 30, 20230

Ivory Coast Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, who was seen as a possible successor to President Alassane Ouattara, has died in Freiburg in southwestern Germany, two

Uganda’s Bobi Wine calls for peaceful protests after polls

YoopyaMar 9, 2021May 20, 20230

Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine is calling for peaceful protests in the aftermath of presidential elections, charging that electoral authorities are grappling with forged results

Why Senegal protesters are clashing with police

YoopyaMar 9, 2021May 20, 20230

Deadly protests have erupted over the past week in the West African nation of Senegal, long considered a bastion of democracy and a regional leader

Senegal opposition leader to be released pending rape trial

YoopyaMar 8, 2021May 20, 20230

A Senegalese court cleared the way Monday for opposition leader Ousmane Sonko to be released pending his rape trial in a case that already has

Covid-19: Police break up fake vaccine network in China and South Africa

YoopyaMar 3, 2021June 30, 20230

Police in China and South Africa have seized thousands of doses of counterfeit Covid-19 vaccine and made dozens of arrests, Interpol says. In China, police

Nigeria receives nearly 4 million vaccines from COVAX

YoopyaMar 2, 2021June 30, 20230

Nearly 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, the third and largest delivery so far to an African country