Mwanzo Editor
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Kenya police fire tear gas as opposition resumes protests
Police had announced at the weekend they were banning the new demonstrations after protests in March spiralled into chaos and violence that left three people dead
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Togo’s president says 140 people killed in jihadist ‘war’
Togo along with neighbouring Benin, Ghana and Ivory Coast, is increasingly facing threats of a jihadist spillover from Burkina Faso and Mali
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Sudan truce extended, but strikes continue
Foreign representatives involved in seeking to quell the fighting welcomed the extended ceasefire deal and urged full implementation
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Legendary US talk show host Jerry Springer dies aged 79: US media
Springer, whose show became an international hit that ran for 27 years, died peacefully at his home in Chicago after “a brief illness,”
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Kenya cult toll climbs to 95 as families await news of missing
The gruesome saga, which has been dubbed the “Shakahola Forest Massacre”, has prompted calls for a crackdown on fringe religious outfits in the largely Christian country
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Why are the US and China fighting over chips?
The United States has moved to block China’s access to the most advanced semiconductors and the equipment and talent needed to make them in recent months, citing national security.
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‘Abusing scripture’: The rise of Kenya’s Christian cults
The discovery of mass graves topped with crucifixes, many housing the remains of children apparently starved by their parents, shocked Kenya
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Harry Belafonte, pioneering performer and activist, dies at 96
Belafonte’s calypso, the genre of Caribbean music that drew from West African and French influences, saw him skyrocket to fame in the midst of post-World War II prosperity and suburbanization
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World’s oldest elected leaders
The world’s oldest elected leader is Cameroon’s president Paul Biya, 90, who has ruled with an iron fist for more than four decades
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World’s most chilling cults
Following the grim discovery in Kenya of the bodies of more than 70 suspected cult members believed to have starved themselves to death, we look at other notorious killer sects. 914 dead, Guyana jungle apocalypse In one…
