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Drogba appointed WHO’s Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health
COTE d’Ivoire football legend Didier Drogba (pictured) has been appointed the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and…
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Ex-Cote d’Ivoire leader launches new quest for presidency
FORMER Cote d’Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo (pictured) on Sunday launched a new political party he hopes will return him to…
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Business & Economy
South African finance chief downplays nation’s crime scourge
SOUTH Africa’s finance minister urged investors not to be deterred by what he termed ‘isolated’ incidents of criminality, and assured…
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Business & Economy
Contract for Ghana-Burkina Faso rail interconnection project to be awarded
JOHN Peter Amewu, the Minister for Railways Development in Ghana has announced that contracts for the implementation of the gigantic…
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Gambian Toufah Jallow tells of surviving rape by dictator
TOUFAH Jallow’s name resonates deeply in Gambia as one of the few women who has taken a public stand against…
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Alex Saab’s extradition to the US is a shameful act of political cowardice by the Cape Verde government, his lawyers claim
CAPE Verde’s active participation in the kidnapping of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab is a shameful and cowardly act which must…
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Business & Economy
China revitalises Uganda’s ageing airport to carry more international traffic
ON the tarmac at Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport on the shores of Lake Victoria, Chinese technicians and their Ugandan counterparts…
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How the illicit copper trade is sapping South Africa
SOUTH Africa’s economic woes are being compounded by the theft of massive amounts of copper from state firms Eskom and…
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Two deaths shine spotlight on violence against women in Kenya
CYNTHIA Makokha was a 17-year-old student and volleyball player. Agnes Tirop was a 25-year-old rising athletics star, who finished fourth…
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Agnes Tirop: Kenyan police arrest husband in connection with stabbing death
POLICE in Kenya have arrested the husband of long-distance runner Agnes Tirop after she was stabbed to death on Wednesday.…
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