Africa: Global Terrorist Killings in 2023 - Burkina Faso Suffers in First Place
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March 1, 2024, 12:36 PM
[allAfrica] Monrovia -- The Institute for Economics and Peace has released its latest report on the state of terrorism around the world. The 2023 report, dubbed the Global Terrorism Index, shows a dramatic rise in the number of terrorism-related deaths while revealing that the Sahel region of Sub-Saharan Africa witnessed more deaths from terrorism than the much-publicized Middle East.
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South Africa: Textile Artist Lizette Chirrime Launches Fashion Line in Cape Town
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March 1, 2024, 11:15 AM
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Renowned Mozambican abstract textile artist Lizette Chirrime is showing her first artistic fashion line in Cape Town, South Africa, as the first presentation by Art Africa of their Community Residency program.
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South Africa: South Africa's Online Election Talk Heats Up
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March 1, 2024, 7:42 AM
[allAfrica] South Africa's online election conversation is heating up - and key points and concerns are emerging, according to the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC).
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South Africa: 3 Dead in Braamfontein Shooting, Police Seek Suspects - South African News Briefs - March 1, 2024
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March 1, 2024, 5:07 AM
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Zimbabwe: Bomb Scare Forces Plane Carrying President to Turn Back
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March 1, 2024, 3:10 PM
[New Zimbabwe] A BOMB scare at Victoria Falls International Airport has forced President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Falcon 7X aircraft to be turned back to Harare.
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Sudan: Sudanese Groups Form Alliance 'To Stop the War By Fighting Corruption'
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March 1, 2024, 3:02 PM
[Dabanga] Addis Ababa -- Five prominent Sudanese organisations agreed to establish an anti-corruption alliance at the end of the Sudan Business for Peace conference in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa yesterday.
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Ethiopia: Silent Suffering - Tales of Violence Against Women Echo Across Conflict-Hit Western Oromia
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March 1, 2024, 10:42 AM
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- When the residents of the Jardega Jarte district within the Horro Guduru Wollega Zone of the Oromia region were compelled to evacuate their residences in pursuit of safety subsequent to what locals characterized as "an assault perpetrated by Fano" in September 2023, the trajectory of Hana Tadesse's life (pseudonym) took an irreversibly adverse turn.
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Nigeria: Power Supply Problem Denies Nigerians Access to Good Life - Minister of Power
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March 1, 2024, 3:10 PM
[Vanguard] The Federal Government yesterday acknowledged that the abysmal level of power supply in the country is denying citizens the opportunity to live a good life.
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Ethiopia: 250,000 Students May Drop Out Due to Starvation - Tigray Education Bureau
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March 1, 2024, 2:03 PM
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Tigray Education Bureau has issued a stark warning, indicating more than a quarter of a million students are at risk of discontinuing their education due to the imminent threat of starvation resulting from the ongoing drought crisis.
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Senegal: Senegal Opposition Demands Election to Pick New President By April
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March 1, 2024, 12:59 PM
[RFI] Senegal's President Macky Sall has again insisted he will leave power on 2 April, the day his mandate ends, despite postponing the election that would have picked his successor. The opposition has demanded that the vote be held before Sall's term is up, but so far the president has only committed to calling an election before the end of July.
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Mozambique: Pregnant Students, Adolescent Mothers Leave School
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March 1, 2024, 11:29 AM
[HRW] Many adolescent girls and women in Mozambique, who are pregnant or parenting, drop out of school because they face huge barriers and get inadequate support from schools at one of the most vulnerable times in their lives, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Even though Mozambique's government revoked discriminatory measures against pregnant students and adolescent mothers over five years ago, many teachers and education and school officials lack clear instructions on protect...
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Africa: Strengthening Immunisation of Africa's Children
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March 1, 2024, 11:25 AM
[New Era] THE Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) have announced an extended partnership with particular focus on immunisation of children across the continent.
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Tanzania: Former Tanzania President Dies
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March 1, 2024, 10:13 AM
[New Times] Tanzania's former President Ali Hassan Mwinyi has died at the age of 98, The Citizen reports. The death of the former head of State was announced by President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
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Chad: Opposition Leader Killed in Gun Battles
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March 1, 2024, 9:54 AM
[Premium Times] Media reports on Thursday suggested that opposition leader Yaya Dillo had been killed in a shootout in N'Djamena.
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Tanzania: Govt Declares Seven Days of Mourning for Late President Mwinyi
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March 1, 2024, 6:25 AM
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu has declared seven days of mourning following the passing of former president Ali Hassan Mwinyi.
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Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF's Move to Offer Mnangagwa Third Presidential Term Worries Opposition
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March 1, 2024, 4:29 AM
[New Zimbabwe] Moves within ruling Zanu PF to ensure President Emmerson Mnangagwa a third term in office, against dictates of the Zimbabwean constitution, have worried MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora.
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Nigeria: Tinubu Hits Back At Labour Over Strikes
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March 1, 2024, 4:29 AM
[Leadership] President Bola Tinubu yesterday threw jabs at the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over its series of industrial actions, saying calling four strikes against his administration that is barely nine months is unacceptable.
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Africa: One in Eight People Are Now Living With Obesity
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March 1, 2024, 4:29 AM
[WHO] New study released by the Lancet shows that, in 2022, more than 1 billion people in the world are now living with obesity. Worldwide, obesity among adults has more than doubled since 1990, and has quadrupled among children and adolescents (5 to 19 years of age). The data also show that 43% of adults were overweight in 2022.
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Liberia: Former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to Receive a Lifetime Achievement Award
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March 1, 2024, 4:29 AM
[New Dawn] Mrs. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf retired in 2018 having led Liberia for 12 consecutive years as Africa's first female elected president upon winning a 2005 democratic election at the end of a brutal 14-year civil war.
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Mozambique: Government Needs 100 Million Dollars for Rail Electrification
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March 1, 2024, 4:26 PM
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government needs about 100 million dollars to implement the pilot rail electrification project, from Maputo city to the border with South Africa at Ressano Garcia, over a length of 88 kilometres.
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Mozambique: Nation Relatively Stable Despite Terrorism - President
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March 1, 2024, 4:25 PM
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has claimed that, despite the terrorism that has been plaguing some districts of the northern province of Cabo Delgado since 2017, the country is relatively stable.
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Nigeria: Peseiro Quits As Super Eagles Coach
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March 1, 2024, 4:24 PM
[Vanguard] Jose Peseiro has confirmed he is no longer the coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria.
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Liberia: Legislature Expected to Pass Resolution On War Crimes Court
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March 1, 2024, 4:21 PM
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- A resolution for the establishment of a war and economic crimes court for Liberia is expected to be put on the floor of the lower house of the National Legislature next week, in the wake of the visit of Beth Van Schaack, US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice to Liberia, FrontPageAfrica has reliably learnt.
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Kenya: Kenya Signs Agreement With Haiti On Deployment of 1,000 Police Officers
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March 1, 2024, 3:05 PM
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya has formalised the planned deployment of 1,000 police officers to Haiti by signing an agreement.
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South Africa: South Africa Faces Decisive 2024 Election
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March 1, 2024, 12:57 PM
[DW] Thirty years since its first post-apartheid election, many South African voters are fed up. The ruling ANC could lose its majority for the first time.
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Somalia: Farmajo Expected to Be Back Home After Long Absence
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March 1, 2024, 11:27 AM
[Shabelle] Mogadishu, Somalia -- The former president of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo is expected to return to the country on Friday.
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South Africa: Gugulethu School for Adults Abandoned By Government, Say Residents
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March 1, 2024, 11:25 AM
[GroundUp] St Francis Community Learning Centre has to rely on illegal connection for electricity
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Nigeria: Gender Matters Across Nigeria (March 2024 Edition)
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March 1, 2024, 11:23 AM
[Premium Times] SGBV cases are on the rise in many parts of Nigeria including Kano, Katsina and Abuja.
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Nigeria: Current Weather Conditions Could Worsen Meningitis Outbreak
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March 1, 2024, 11:22 AM
[Premium Times] Nigeria recorded a total of 303 confirmed cases and 190 deaths from Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) across 29 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) between 2022 to 2023.
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Nigeria: Govt Hands Binance $10 Billion Fine
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March 1, 2024, 11:16 AM
[Premium Times] The Nigerian government's retribution claim is coming months after Binance pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $4.3 billion to settle criminal money laundering charges levied by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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