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Breaking! Nigeria Confirms First Coronavirus Case In Sub-Saharan Africa

Nigeria on Friday morning announced the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa. “The case is an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan, Italy to Lagos, Nigeria on the 25th of February 2020,” Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said in a statement on Twitter. https://twitter.com/Fmohnigeria/status/1233180000872026114?s=19 “The patient is clinically stable, with no serious…

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Breaking: Malawi Court Nullifies Presidential Election Results, Orders Fresh Poll

Malawi’s Constitutional Court on Monday nullified the results of last year’s presidential election, citing “widespread, systematic and grave” irregularities including significant use of correction fluid to alter the outcome. The two leading opposition candidates had challenged the narrow election win of President Peter Mutharika, alleging that irregularities affected over 1.4 million of the total 5.1…

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Burundi’s Ruling Party Picks Gen. Ndayishimiye As President Nkurunziza’s Successor

Burundi’s ruling party said Sunday that party leader General Evariste Ndayishimiye will stand as its candidate in a presidential election in May. Ndayishimiye is an ally of current President Pierre Nkurunziza who will not seek a new mandate after his controversial election to a third term in 2015 plunged the country into crisis. Nkurunziza was…

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Billionaire Isabel Dos Santos, Daughter Of Angola’s Ex-President Charged With fraud

Isabel dos Santos, the tycoon daughter of Angola’s former president, has been charged with money laundering and mismanagement, Angolan prosecutors said, as they launched a bid Thursday to have the billionairess and other suspects return home for questioning. One of five named suspects, a Portuguese banker identified at the weekend in a worldwide media exclusive…

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Gunfire Rocks Khartoum As Armed Factions Break Away From Sudanese Military Forces

Clashes between Sudanese security forces in the capital this week have raised questions about loyalty and stability in the military and the country’s transitional unity government, with some Sudanese seeing the violence as a serious threat to the nation’s security and its move toward democracy. The ongoing violence in Khartoum, coming on the heels of…

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Gen. Chiwenga Arrests President Mnangangwa, Vows To Grab Power

Harare: The power struggle between Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and his deputy, Vice President Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, over control of the country has hit boiling point, after reports that Chiwenga has put Mnangagwa under virtual military house arrest. This comes at a time when indications of the president’s embarassing exit from office continue to…

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