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1 month ago

Zambia: An Uneven Contest, an Easy Win

On 24 August, police sealed off access to Zambia’s courts, closed the day before the deadline for petitions to challenge the results of the 13 August presidential election. The judiciary’s top officia...

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1 month ago

Conflict is rising in Ethiopia’s Tigray region: 5 steps that could stop a return to full-scale war

Recent confrontations in Tigray are a sign that the 2022 peace process has seriously derailed.

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1 month ago

Ethiopia-Eritrea tensions over Red Sea port have turned the Tigray peace deal into a political weapon

An incomplete peace agreement has become a useful political tool to the Ethiopian government, the TPLF and Eritrea.

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1 month ago

Refinery rivalry: billion-dollar oil projects expose east Africa’s long-running regional tensions

Rivalry has not disappeared from east Africa. It has simply been repackaged as competing ‘regional’ projects.

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1 month ago

How is Nigeria’s anti-fraud unit doing? Case study asks detectives how they manage with few funds

There is a need for improved fraud awareness education so that ordinary Nigerians understand how fraudsters operate.

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1 month ago

Zambia’s messy but decisive election: government shows strength; democracy shows weakness

How the re-elected government uses its new dominance will influence Zambian politics well beyond this election.

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2 months ago

UN warns South Sudan refugees at risk as aid funding runs short

Two United Nations agencies warned on Friday that hundreds of thousands of refugees in South Sudan are at risk of losing much needed humanitarian assistance due to a lack of funding.

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2 months ago

Morocco detains dozens of migrants trying to cross into Ceuta, reports say

Security had been stepped up amid suggestions on social media of a second mass crossing on Saturday.

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2 months ago

Zambia resumes counting after violence disrupts election process

Zambia has resumed vote counting after a nationwide suspension over election-related violence, with the Electoral Commission saying security threats have been contained. The first presidential results...

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2 months ago

War in Ukraine: Deadly Russian air raid on Kramatorsk leaves 1 dead and 17 wounded

At least one person was killed and 17 injured in a Russian airstrike on Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine overnight, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.

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2 months ago

Colombia earthquake: Dog rescued alive as 72-hour window closes

Colombia rescuers treated a dog pulled alive from earthquake rubble in Cali on Thursday, as emergency teams made a final push to find survivors before the critical 72-hour window closed.

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2 months ago

Unprecedented rainfall in Japan leaves at least four dead in Chiba prefecture

Unprecedented rainfall battered Japan on Thursday, leaving at least four people dead and flooding parts of Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo. Authorities issued the region’s highest-level rain warning f...

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