World Trade Organization: Could there be an African director-general?

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The World Trade Organization is currently looking for a new director-general and three of the candidates are African.

South Africa’s sugar cane murders: Living in fear of serial killings

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A farming community in South Africa is reeling after the bodies of five women were recently discovered.

Chinese phones with built-in malware sold in Africa

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The malicious code could sign owners up to subscription services without permission.

Uganda-born woman found dead in UK next to ‘starving baby’

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The death of a woman whose one-year-old child was reportedly found malnourished beside her body is being investigated.

‘Lack of pay saw me quit football for hairdressing’

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Nigerian women's footballer Chinenye Okafor quit playing to become a hairdresser after going unpaid for 13 months.

Sudan and Pompeo ‘discuss removal from terror list’

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Sudan is on the US' list of state sponsors of terror as al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden lived there.

Uganda: A factory provides accommodation for workers during Covid-19 lockdown

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A factory in Uganda is providing accommodation for workers so that they could keep working during lockdown.

The killing of Hachalu Hundessa and Ethiopia’s identity strife

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The killing of Hachalu Hundessa laid bare the deep-seated ethnic animosity in Ethiopia.

Africa declared free of wild polio in ‘milestone’

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Nigeria is now rid of wild polio having had more than half of global cases less than 10 years ago.

Coronavirus in Kenya: How it turned classrooms into chicken coops

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Some Kenyan private schools have found new sources of income after they were forced to close.