Kenya protests western diplomatic pressure on electoral head
Nairobi - Kenya has protested to the United States and the European Union after diplomats were accused of pressuring the head of Kenya's electoral commission to resign. The Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) has faced strong criticism from an indepe...
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Dismay in Zimbabwe as central bank bans electronic transfers
Harare - Confusion struck Zimbabwe's financial system Friday after the central bank stopped electronic transfers, following the currency's crash to a new record low. State radio quoted Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono as saying that elec...
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Report: Burundi albinos go into hiding after killings
Nairobi/Bujumbura - Albinos in Burundi have been forced to go into police protection after gangs killed three of them for their body parts, reports said. The BBC said that four albinos were taken to a provincial town, where they were being guarded by...
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At least 29 dead in floods in southern Algeria
Algiers - At least 29 people have died and more than 80 were injured in floods in the southern Algerian region of Ghardaia, some 600 kilometres south of the capital Algiers, the web site Everything about Algeria reported on Thursday. Army units have ...
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Aid agency closes offices in Chad after armed robberies
Nairobi/N'Djamena - Aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has shut down two offices in eastern Chad and evacuated its staff after armed robberies, the charity said Thursday. MSF said that all activities in Ade and Goz Beida had been suspended inde...
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Stop running to mother Mbeki: Mugabe's party tells the MDC
Johannesburg - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party has opposed calling in ex-South African president Thabo Mbeki to salvage a power-sharing deal with prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Zanu...
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