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Gucci Grace, PhD stirs up race to lead post-Mugabe Zimbabwe

YoopyaSep 18, 2014September 2, 20230

(Reuters) – Soon after being shoe-horned into the top ranks of Zimbabwe’s ruling party, the wife of ageing leader Robert Mugabe has gained a PhD

Liberia hopes U.S. Ebola pledge will spur others to act

YoopyaSep 18, 2014September 2, 20230

(Reuters) – Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said on Wednesday she hoped U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to send 3,000 troops to West Africa to

As many as 700 migrants feared drowned in Mediterranean

YoopyaSep 17, 2014June 19, 20230

(Reuters) – More than 700 people fleeing Africa and the Middle East may have drowned in shipwrecks in the Mediterranean over the last week, bringing

Ebola could drain billions of dollars from African economies: World Bank

YoopyaSep 17, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – The largest-ever outbreak of Ebola could drain billions of dollars from economies in West Africa by the end of next year if the

Bissau president picks close confidant as army chief

YoopyaSep 17, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau President Jose Mario Vaz has appointed a close confidant and head of the presidential guard as army chief to replace Antonio Indjai

Ebola cases may be kept within tens of thousands, WHO says

YoopyaSep 17, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – The unprecedented Ebola outbreak in West Africa requires a $1 billion response to keep its spread within the tens of thousands of cases,

US to Send 3,000 to Africa to Fight Ebola Virus

YoopyaSep 16, 2014July 16, 20230

WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to unveil today an expanded U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the worst outbreak of the disease

Lesotho brings forward vote to ease political crisis

YoopyaSep 16, 2014July 16, 20230

(Reuters) – Lesotho will hold elections earlier than scheduled in 2017, in an effort to ease a political crisis that resulted in an apparent coup

Ex-president Gbagbo’s party withdraws from Ivory Coast poll body

YoopyaSep 15, 2014July 25, 20230

(Reuters) – The party of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo withdrew from the country’s election commission on Sunday, setting back efforts to draw it

Bharti Airtel to sell over 3,500 African mobile phone masts to Eaton Towers

YoopyaSep 9, 2014September 7, 20230

(Reuters) – India’s Bharti Airtel Ltd (BRTI.NS) has agreed to sell more than 3,500 of its mobile phone masts in six African countries to telecommunications