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The governor of the Tanzanian city of Dar Es Salaam announced that residents are prohibited from organizing events or festivities while the nation mourns the late President John Magufuli. “President Samia Suluhu has declared 21 days of mourning and I will issue this order to you that during those days …

The boss of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has sent his congratulations to Samia Suluhu Hassan, the Tanzanian new president, saying he hopes they can work together to tackle coronavirus. “I look forward to working with you to keep people safe from Covid-19, end the pandemic and …

A drone attack on Friday sparked a fire at an oil refinery in the Saudi capital Riyadh and was claimed by Yemeni Houthi rebels, the Saudi energy ministry said. The attack was claimed by Yemeni Houthi rebels, the Saudi energy ministry said. “The Riyadh oil refinery was attacked by drones, …

Nearly 200 people have been killed since January in “an alarming increase in attacks” by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN says. According to the UN refugee agency, 40,000 had been forced to flee their homes during the same …

Russian President Vladimir Putin offers his American counterpart Joe Biden “a discussion” broadcast live in the coming days, in response to the accusations of the American president who considered that he could be qualified as a “killer”. The US president Joe Biden answers with the affirmative when a journalist from …

The 77-year-old President Denis Sassou Nguesso is aiming for re-election in the first round on Sunday in Congo-Brazzaville, where members of civil society have expressed “serious reservations” about the transparency of the election. “One shot, K-O” is written on the campaign posters of the candidate of the Congolese Labor Party …

Tanzanian late President John Magufuli’s successor has announced that he will be buried next Thursday, 25 March, in his western home village of Chato. John Pombe Magufuli died on Wednesday from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, the government said. Tanzanian have reacted with sorrow and disbelief …

Frederik Willem de Klerk, the South African apartheid-era President, has been diagnosed with cancer. The announcement has been done by his foundation. It said the former president was found with “mesothelioma, which is a cancer that affects the tissue that lines the lungs”. Mr De Klerk, the last white man …

Samia Suluhu Hassan, former Tanzanian vice-president becomes the first woman to be president in Tanzania. This comes after the death of President John Pombe Magufuli from heart complications. Ms Samia has been sworn in by the Chief Justice Ibrahim Juma at State House Dar es Salaam The 61-year-old woman served …

The opposition in Tanzania has called for Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan to be sworn in immediately, following the death of President John Magufuli, BBC news reports. It will make her the first female president of the East Africa nation and the second president to come from the country’s semi-autonomous …