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Hilda Bassey, Nigerian chef, cooks for 100 hours in world record attempt
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Nigerian chef Hilda Effiong Bassey has become a national sensation after cooking nonstop for 100 hours, in an…
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Malawi: Toddler dead, 23 others missing as hippo capsizes boat in Nsanje district
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A toddler has died after a boat ferrying more than 30 villagers across the Shire River in Malawi’s Nsanje…
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Almost 250,000 flee floods in Somali city that ‘became like an ocean’
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Floods have caused almost a quarter of a million people to flee their homes after the Shabelle river in…
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Malawi: Six more bodies found after hippo capsized boat
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Rescuers have recovered six more bodies from a river in southern Malawi days after a boat carrying about 37…
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Africa may need its own central medicines agency, says Aspen Pharmacare CEO
London
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When Africa needs medicines, all too often the continent must look abroad.
African nations…
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As the West surges toward electric cars, here’s where the unwanted gas guzzlers go
Cotonou, Benin
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Standing on the stony ground in the bustling Fifa Park car lot, Rokeeb Yaya is haggling over the…
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Malawi: Their son was banned from school for 3 years because of his dreadlocks
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For years, Alli Nansolo grappled with whether to cut his son’s dreadlocks or not. Although it is not a legal…
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P-Square on their breakup, reuniting and a new album in the works
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Before music streaming was popular, Nigerian group P-Square was already among the pioneers of the sound now…
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Fulgence Kayishema: Most wanted Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in South Africa after decades on…
Johannesburg
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The most wanted fugitive in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has been arrested in Paarl, South Africa…
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Ugandan women politicians are standing up to the online bullies — and want more women to do…
But with this presence online, Nyanjura says she faces the now-standard challenges of being a woman in politics: in addition to the tweets of support or derision that most…
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