East Africa
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Tanzania parliament elects new speaker after political feud
The new speaker Tulia Ackson’s predecessor, Job Ndugai, resigned last month after criticising President Suluhu.
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Bunge la Tanzania lamchagua spika mpya baada ya mzozo wa kisiasa
Tulia Ackson, ambaye amekuwa naibu spika tangu 2015, aliwashinda wagombea wengine wanane wa upinzani.
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Police Officials: Tanzanian jihadist leader responsible for attacks in northern Mozambique killed
Tuahil Muhidim led a 2020 attack that captured Mocimboa da Praia, the northern port used to receive cargo for multi-billion-dollar gas projects in the region.
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Watu watano wauawa katika shambulizi la bomu kaskazini mwa Kenya
Mkoa wa Mandera unakabiliwa na uvamizi katika mpaka wake na Somalia, ambapo wanamgambo wa Al-Shabaab wanadhibiti maeneo mengi ambapo usalama ni dhaifu.
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Rwanda yafungua tena mpaka wake na Uganda baada ya kufungwa kwa miaka mitatu
Mpaka huo ulifungwa Februari 2019 baada ya mvutano wa kisiasa kati ya Kigali na Kampala.
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Rwanda reopens land border with Uganda after three-year closure
The main Gatuna crossing post, known as Katuna in Uganda, officially reopened at midnight.
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NALA, Tanzanian fintech raises $10M seed
“We’re scaling that up, not just being in Tanzania and Kenya and Uganda as a consumer-facing product. But in the long run, we want to build infrastructure across the continent where we can do outbound from the…
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More bottlenecks at Malaba, Busia borders
The recent traffic jam at the Malaba border stretched for about 80 km inside Kenya. The reason this happened was due to introduction of new measures related to the control and prevention of Covid-19 by…
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Mozambique and Tanzania leaders meet over Islamist insurgency
The fighting in northern Mozambique has occasionally spilled across the border.
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Rwanda to reopen land border with Uganda
Rwanda abruptly closed its border with Uganda in 2019, accusing Uganda of abducting its citizens and supporting rebels seeking to topple Kagame.
