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Retired South African archbishop and anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu has been admitted to a Cape Town hospital for a series of tests, his office said on Thursday. “The Archbishop was in good spirits after settling into his ward.…
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President Tayyip Erdogan, arriving in Germany for a three-day state visit, urged Berlin to designate as a terrorist organization the movement of Fethullah Gulen which Turkey blames for a 2016 coup attempt. His call, in a newspaper…
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Two whistle-blowers who leaked explosive emails revealing alleged corruption by powerful elites in South Africa fled the country because they couldn’t trust the authorities to protect them. This, and other details, have been revealed at a…
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A swarm of bees flew into the engine of a Mango Airlines plane, forcing a delay in flights at the main airport in South Africa's coastal city of Durban. Bee experts were called in and they safely removed the estimated 20,000 bees from…
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The US First Lady Melania Trump has announced that she will be visiting Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt on her solo tour of the continent in October. She called them "four beautiful and very different countries" when talking about the…
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The World Bank has approved $80 million in grants to Somalia to fund public finance reforms, marking the first disbursement to the government of the conflict-ridden country in 30 years, the bank said. The Washington-based lender, which…
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As British Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to face critics of her Brexit plan at her party conference at the weekend and her Labour opponents vow to vote against it in parliament, EU officials are increasingly uneasy about prospects for…
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A son of Angola's ex-President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has been arrested on suspicion of money-laundering, embezzlement of public funds and fraud. Jose Filomeno dos Santos is the most high-profile person to be targeted in new President…
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A Kenyan journalist and TV presenter has won this year's BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Waihiga Mwaura presents Kenya's most-watched evening news bulletin on Citizen TV. As part of the prize, he will spend three months at the BBC…
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US President Donald Trump has urged other members of the UN Security Council to work with America to ensure Iran never acquires a nuclear bomb. He told the council that anyone who failed to comply with US sanctions on Iran would "face…
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