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Mali’s former president Ibrahim Keita dies aged 76
Former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita led the Mali from 2013 until he was ousted in 2020.
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COVID Rules drive fans away from attending AFCON Matches
Most matches at the Africa Cup of Nations so far have been played out in front of largely empty stadiums in Cameroon.
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Morocco through to Cup of Nations
Only Senegal sit above Morocco among African teams in the FIFA world ranking.
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Thousands of Malians take to the streets over stringent sanctions
Economic Community of West Africa States agreed to sanction Mali last week imposing a trade embargo and shutting borders.
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Why Mali’s economy could quickly get strangled
ECOWAS imposed a drastic embargo on trade and financial transactions on Mali last week.
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Rwandan public sector workers told to get vaccinated or resign
Around a hundred Rwandan fled across the border to DR Congo in recent days to escape the vaccine rules.
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Sierra Leone to increase women’s participation in politics
President Julius Bio says the country will move to a system of proportional voting.
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12 in custody in Burkina Faso over destabilization plot
Suspected plot to “destabilise institutions” was uncovered this week.
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Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara shot at least 7 times
Sankara and 12 of his colleagues were gunned down by a hit squad on October 15 1987.
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New task force to handle corruption case on Zuma era
A special commission last week released the first volume of its findings stating the National Prosecuting Authority had failed to pursue cases of high-level corruption.
