Niger PM Ali Lamine Zeine on Ecowas and Nigeria sanctions

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Niger's PM says that Ecowas sanctions, including cutting off electricity supply, medicines and food, after a military coup are injustice unlike any other.

KFC shuts Lesotho stores over South Africa bird flu

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Lesotho has banned poultry imports from South Africa, leaving the fast food chain short of chicken.

UK woman guilty over three-year-old’s FGM in Kenya

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Amina Noor is the first person to be convicted of assisting a non-UK person to perform FGM.

Two Tanzanians and one South African among Hamas hostages, says Israel

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None have been named but Tanzania confirms that two of its citizens have been seized.

Nigeria Supreme Court dismisses election challenges by Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi

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Bola Tinubu's victory is upheld by the Supreme Court, which dismisses opposition complaints.

SA’s Bongi Mbonambi clear for Rugby World Cup final

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England accuse World Rugby of denying Tom Curry a fair hearing over his allegation of an on-field racial slur by South Africa's Bongi Mbonambi.

Ethiopian scientist Gebisa Ejeta receives National Medal of Science from US

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Gebisa Ejeta, 73, receives the National Medal of Science for developing an improved sorghum hybrid.

Kenya coach William Muluya: ‘How football coaching saved me from a life of crime’

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Kenya assistant coach William Muluya saw friends killed in a hail of bullets in his youth, and credits football with saving him from a similar fate.

Zimbabwe Elephant deaths: Mysterious bacterium found in bodies

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'Mysterious' bacterium found in the bodies of animals that died suddenly in 2020.

Gold One mine ‘hostage situation’: South African miner feared for his life

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Hundreds of workers at a South African mine were trapped underground for three days in a union dispute.