Zimbabwean care worker Marian dreamt of her teenage daughter joining her for a new life in Britain, but new migration rules have left them stranded on different continents.
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Maize output in Zimbabwe will drop by almost three-quarters this year as the nation experiences its worst drought in four decades, according to the government.
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When Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in 1975, Daniel Francisco Chapo was only 2 years old. Now he will be the presidential candidate for Frelimo, that country's ruling party since independence.
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Eighteen people were killed and 32 wounded on Friday when at least five rockets fell on camps sheltering displaced people around the eastern Congolese city of Goma, the U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA said,
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Chad will be the first coup-hit Sahel country to reestablish a non-military government if the election succeeds, but it remained tense on Monday.
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Former Botswana president Ian Khama has been branded a "fugitive from justice" approaching the courts with "unclean hands" by that country's minister of local government and rural development.
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The South Africa-led SADC Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will conduct an armed operation to reopen humanitarian corridors M23 rebels blocked during attacks on displaced people's camps in North Kivu.
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Kenya said Sunday that the death toll from weeks of devastating rains and floods had risen to 228 and warned that there was no sign of a let-up in the crisis.
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Kenyan lawmakers are demanding the dismissal of the nation’s agriculture secretary after government agencies distributed fake fertiliser through a subsidy programme.
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A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo's war-torn east on Friday handed a death sentence to eight soldiers, including five officers, for desertion and cowardice when fighting M23 rebels.
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MTN Nigeria has received an accommodating breather from its funders and suppliers, helping it avoid an imminent rights issue while trading itself back to solvency.
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