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682Kenya Elections Agency to Adopt Blockchain for Vote Transparency
East Africa’s biggest economy, Kenya confirmed through a statement from it’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman Wafula Chebukati that the country...
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485Kofi Annan, Former UN secretary general & Nobel Prize Winner Dies at 80
A Quick History On Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan was born in Kumasi on April 8, 1938. Since 1960 Ghana has been...
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374Bobi Wine, Ugandan Pop star will pay the price before he becomes President
Bobi Wine, real name Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu is an Afrobeats star who began his music career in the early 2000s. It’s very easy...
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291Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita wins landslide election
Republic of Mali, with a population of 18 million has elected Ibrahim Boubacar Keita as it’s president for a second five-year term winning by lanslide...
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1.0KLagos Ranked As The Third Worst Place To Live In
According to The Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU, the 2018 Global Liveability Rankings has cleared the clout Lagosians are living in ranking Lagos, Africa’s most...
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380Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) registers 12 million new voters for 2019 Nigerian election
Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria has an unstable economic and social climate around election season, much like any other highly populated and...
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410Humanity’s first visit to a star began this weekend
On Sunday, NASA launched its historic Parker Solar Probe at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Sunday. – an unmanned machine about the size...
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327Nigeria and Ghana risk suspension from international football by FIFA
FIFA has issued ultimatums to Nigeria and Ghana that they will both face bans from global football for “undue influence” on Tuesday...
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284Acting President, Osinbajo orders immediate overhaul of SARS’ activities
Through the year 2018, the infamous arm of the police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) has been in the news for their...
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458Ugandan president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni attacked by Opposition
The car of Ugandan president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was attacked on Monday evening, by opposition supporters in the town of Arua. Photos shared by...
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512Pakistan is getting its first lawmaker of African descent
39-year-old Tanzeela Qambrani was nominated by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, to a women’s reserved seat in...
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317After 17 years, Joseph Kabila will step down as DR Congo’s President
Yes, you heard me right. Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, a former minister of interior was confirmed by DRC’s ruling party as the candidate...
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399South Sudan signs Peace Deal ending 5 years of Civil War
President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir and former vice president/Rebel Leader Riek Machar started a civil war in the country two years after gaining independence and...
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345Patricia De Lille will resign as mayor of Cape Town in October
The Democratic Alliance and Cape Town Mayor Patricia De Lille announced on Sunday that she will resign as mayor at the end of...
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289Ebola In Congo: Dozens infected, Many confirmed dead
On Sunday, 5 August, the World Health Organization confirmed that the Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed...
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443Could the Youngest Political Leader In Africa, Abiy Ahmed be the saviour Ethiopia needs?
Ethiopia is Africa’s second-largest country (in terms of population), located in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north and northeast, Djibouti and Somalia to the...
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375Africa’s economic growth will suffer from rising global temperatures
As the global population hits 8 billion, some of the world’s fastest growing populations will be most at risk from climate change,...
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383South African Women protest against gender-based violence in the country with #TotalShutdown
Women took to the street today with #TheTotalShutdown protest tag against gender-based violence towards women in South Africa, labeled an ‘intersectional women’s march‘...
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306Nigeria launches app to fight human trafficking
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has launched an app called iReport that allows people to report...
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307President Buhari is ECOWAS’ newly elected Chairman
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been elected the chairperson of the Economic Community of West African Communities (ECOWAS) in Togo’s capital Lome. Preceding the...
