Sudan's Abdalla Hamdok takes office as new PM

Abdalla Hamdok vows to make achieving peace and solving the country’s economic crisis.

Sudan's new Prime

Djibouti stays in race for UN seat

A UN Security Council meeting

Representative to the UN Mohamed Siad Doualeh says Djibouti will continue to vie for the

Kenyan who ingested cocaine packets arrested in Thailand

cocaine

Ooko was arrested along with Nigerian national Osita Joseph Ukpa.

Kagame, Museveni sign pact aimed at ending tensions

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni (left)

Relations between the Rwanda and Uganda have turned deeply hostile in recent months.

Sudan swears in civilian-majority ruling council

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (centre right),

The body replaces the military council that took charge after the ouster of Omar al-Bashir.

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    • News

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    Gabon suspends judge in President Bongo’s health case

    Opposition campaigners demanded the president to have a medical check-up.

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    Confiscated ivory being moved and catalogued

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    EU is coming under pressure to help protect African elephants.

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    Business

    Technology to help curb fraud in banks

    Technology to help curb fraud in banks

    Experts warn of emerging challenges brought by innovations.

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    DStv Kenya cuts charges as rivalry heats up

    DStv will from September 1 slash its monthly payments by between five and 30 percent.

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    Uganda wants trade barriers in EA tackled
    Tanzania, Kenya hotels forecast growth despite economy hurdles
    Uganda planning threefold raise on deposit insurance cover
    What next after review cuts SGR costs by $120m?
    Industrialisation tops SADC talks
    Debt forces African countries to cut growth expenditure

    Opinion

    AKINYEMI: Today’s preferred careers for the youth are vast, different

    AKINYEMI: Today’s preferred careers for the youth are vast, different

    There is a need for social reorientation no matter the curriculum.

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    Chores come with their own satisfaction in the

    EYAKUZE: Housekeeper 2.0 takes care of my household

    Domestic workers’ help has allowed many women to hold down jobs.

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    Michelle and Barack Obama.

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    It looks at how American and Chinese workers' lives were transformed by economic forces.

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    Science & Health

    DRC to give cross-border traders Ebola vaccines

    DRC to give cross-border traders Ebola vaccines

    The experimental vaccine backed by several international health experts to be used.

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    Nigeria takes Africa towards polio eradication

    Africa’s last case of wild polio was recorded in Nigeria’s Borno State in August 2016.

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    Sports

    Nigeria's ex-coach protests against FIFA life ban

    Nigeria's ex-coach protests against FIFA life ban

    Samson Siasia has been banned for life over match-fixing, but denies wrongdoing.

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