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WANEP urges AU to re-engage Kenyatta and Odinga

The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), Africa’s largest peacebuilding organisation, has called on the African Union (AU) to re-engage...

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February 2, 2018
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Kenya govt declares Odinga’s resistance movement a criminal group

The Kenyan government has declared the main opposition National Super Alliance’s offshoot, National Resistance Movement (NRM) as an illegal entity....

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January 31, 2018
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Human rights bodies condemn media shutdown in Kenya

The Kenyan authorities “violated the public’s right to information” by blocking broadcasts of TV channels that defied a ban on...

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January 31, 2018
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Kenya’s Raila Odinga ‘inaugurates’ himself as president

Kenya’s main opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has declared himself the “people’s president” at a controversial “swearing-in” ceremony in the capital....

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January 30, 2018
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George Weah to revise constitution and reduce his salary

Liberia’s newly sworn-in President George Weah pledged to cut his own salary by a quarter on Monday, in a nationwide...

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January 30, 2018
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Rwanda’s Paul Kagame is new AU Chairman

The outgoing Chairperson of the African Union (AU), President Alpha Condé of Guinea, has handed over the headship of the...

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January 30, 2018
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Sisi gets last minute challenger in Egypt’s presidential election

Egyptian politician Mousa Mostafa Mousa said on Monday he would compete in presidential elections, hours before a nomination deadline was...

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January 29, 2018
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Nigeria govt replies Obasanjo over call for Buhari to quit...

The Nigerian government has officially responded to an open letter by former president Olusegun Obasanjo, in which he advices incumbent...

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January 25, 2018
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Bill Gates warns Trump: China biggest winner if US –...

Bill Gates, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft and one of the world’s richest men has cautioned the U.S. president...

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January 25, 2018
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Winnie Mandela hospitalised, family confirms

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, known in South Africa as the “mother of the nation”, was hospitalized for a kidney infection, the family...

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January 24, 2018
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