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October 7, 2021
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Google plans to invest $1 billion in Africa over the next five years to ensure access to fast and cheaper internet and will back startups to support the continent's digital transformation, it said on Wednesday.The unit of U.S. tech company Alphabet Inc...
September 27, 2021
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Botswana is set to emerge this week from an 18-month state of emergency that will remove the president's emergency powers and end pandemic restrictions on trade and gatherings. While many shops, bars, and restaurants want to get back to normal, some in...
September 27, 2021
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Theoneste Bagosora, a former Rwandan army colonel regarded as the architect of the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and Hutus who tried to protect them were killed, died in a hospital in Mali on Saturday.The 80-year-old Bagosora wa...
September 13, 2021
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COTONOU, BENIN - Benin set up a service early in the COVID-19 pandemic to allow people to register their business online, and now the West African country is the world's fastest place to start a business, according to a U.N. agency. Sandra Idossou, own...
August 27, 2021
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Three years ago, nearly every country in Africa agreed to be part of a continental free trade area intended to lower tariffs and boost economies. But the agreement has yet to be fully implemented because of restrictions stemming from the COVID-19 pand...
October 14, 2021
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The United States is donating 17 million doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the African Union, bringing the total American donation to the continent to 67 million doses.The U.S. previously donated 50 million doses to the AU, which h...
October 14, 2021
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The World Health Organization's endorsement of the world’s first malaria vaccine marks a major advance against the mosquito-borne illness, which kills some 265,000 children in Africa annually.Bitrus Yusuf pours syrup into a measuring cup to give to his...
October 14, 2021
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The Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou returns to Burkina Faso this weekend after being canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.One Burkinabe director, who has made a film documenting a nursery for the infants of sex workers, talks about ...
October 13, 2021
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Suspected jihadis killed 10 villagers in an attack on a mosque earlier this week in western Niger's Tillaberi region, local sources said Wednesday.The attack on Monday occurred in the village of Abankor in the tri-border region where Niger, Mali and Bu...
October 13, 2021
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Police shot a protester to death Wednesday in Eswatini, the latest casualty in months of demonstrations that have left more than a dozen people dead.Agence France-Presse reported Wednesday that the man was killed during a clash between police and a gro...