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US Lifts Visa Restrictions On Gambian Robotics Students

Gambian students who were twice denied visas to travel to the US for a robotics competition are celebrating after...

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Italy’s First Black Minister ‘vindicated’ By Racist Slurs Verdict

Italy’s first black minister has said she feels “vindicated” after winning a four-year court battle against a...

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Knicks Soap Opera Still Playing In Off-Season

The off-season is bringing no respite for the dysfunctional New York Knicks. The NBA Players Association has taken...

International

Vaccine Cost Cripples Response To Outbreak

Nigeria needs as many as 800,000 doses of the type C meningitis vaccine to deal with the outbreak Nigeria does not have...

International

‘Female Journalists, Interns Face High Level of Sexual Harassment’

A report by the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) has revealed that there is a high level of sexual harassment among...

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Zimbabwean Journalists Arrested Over Mugabe Health Report

Two Zimbabwean journalists were arrested Friday over a newspaper report that described President Robert Mugabe as “in...

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Zimbabwe Journalists Arrested Over Mugabe Health Report

Two Zimbabwean journalists were arrested Friday over a newspaper report that described President Robert Mugabe as "in...

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Hero Nurse ‘died After Ebola Prejudice’

Liberian nurse Salome Karwah was one of those named as Time magazine’s person of the year in 2014 for her frontline...

Sports

Zimbabwean Player Simbarashe Nyauzima Dies At Training

Zimbabwean side Buffaloes FC have confirmed defender Simbarashe ‘Smallie’ Nyauzima has died. The right-back...

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Mugabe Marks 93rd Birthday With Faltering TV Interview

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, the world's oldest national ruler, turned 93 on Tuesday, using a long and...

International

Zimbabwe Protest Pastor Laments Prison Conditions After A Week In Jail

Evan Mawarire, Zimbabwean pastor and activist has decried the deplorable conditions in the country’s jails after...

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Nigeria’s President ‘will Be Home In Days’

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is not ill and will be back in Abuja in a matter of days, his media adviser has...

International

African Union ‘will Not Recognise’ Gambia’s Jammeh After Term Ends

The African Union has said it will no longer recognise The Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh as the country's leader from...

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‘Asylum Not Necessary’ For Gambia’s Jammeh – Adama Barrow

The winner of December’s presidential election in The Gambia says there is no need for President Yahya Jammeh to seek...

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‘Asylum Not Necessary’ For Gambia’s Jammeh – Adama Barrow

The winner of December’s presidential election in The Gambia says there is no need for President Yahya Jammeh to seek...

International

Ceasefire Agreed For Midnight, Backed By Russia and Turkey

The Syrian government and rebel groups have agreed to a ceasefire from midnight (22:00 GMT) across the country,...

International

Turkey Withdraws Child Rape Bill After Street Protests

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has withdrawn a bill that would pardon men convicted of sex with underage girls...

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Twum Boafo Apologises To Jon Benjamin Over OccupyGhana Membership Claim

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Free Zones Board, Kwadwo Twum Boafo, has made a U-turn on his comments...

International

UN Suspends All Aid After Convoy Hit

The UN has suspended all aid convoys in Syria after its lorries were attacked by warplanes near Aleppo on Monday. The...