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Internet has been restored in Tanzania after a severe three-day outage, one of the country’s major telecom companies says. Tanzania and the French territory of Mayotte were the worst-hit by the outage that began on Sunday morning, with connectivity levels falling below 30% of what they were expected to be. …

A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment over a murder attempt on a woman by macheting her in the farm in Aramoko Ekiti, Nigeria. The suspect was arraigned before the court on a one-count charge bordering on an attempt to murder. The victim, in her testimony before the …

The Mozambican government said it was working with Russian authorities to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the Russian Ambassador Alexander Surikov, local media reported. Surikov, 68, was found dead on Saturday night at his official residence in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, local media reported. The cause of his …

The US Embassy in Tanzania has closed its doors for two days due to an internet outage affecting several East African countries. “Due to degraded network service nationwide, the embassy will remain closed to the public,” the embassy said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday. It cancelled …

The body of a young woman was found floating near the bank of the Afram River in the community of Akotoe, in the Upper Manya Krobo district, in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The victim, believed to be an 18-year-old female, was found with a sack loaded with stones tied …

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is due to sign into law a contentious national health bill that aims to provide universal coverage to millions of poor citizens. The National Health Insurance (NHI) bill seeks to give South Africans “of all races, rich or poor and legal long-term residents” access to …

The death toll from flooding caused by torrential rains that have persisted for almost three weeks in Kenya has risen to 267. “The death toll from the floods had risen to 267, while 188 others were injured,” Home Affairs Minister Kithor Kindiki The Kenyan minister also pointed out that 75 …

Chad’s interim Prime Minister Succès Masra has filed a petition at the Constitutional Council challenging the preliminary results of last week’s presidential election. According to the results, General Mahamat Idriss Déby won 61.3% of the votes, while Succes Masra, received 18.53%. “With the help of our lawyers, today we submitted …

Five students from Apam Senior High School have been arrested for assaulting their classmates during a fight in the Gomoa West district of Ghana’s Central Region. “They are being held for allegedly assaulting their classmates during a fight on campus,” according to reports. According to reports, “one of the victims …

The Rwandan government has denied allegations that it armed a rebel group that carried out a grenade attack on Burundi’s economic hub Bujumbura. “At least 38 people were injured in Friday’s attack. These terrorists were recruited, trained and even equipped with weapons in Rwanda and by Rwanda,” Pierre Nkurikiye, the …