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Gambians Celebrate New President’s Arrival After Veteran Ruler Flees

Thousands of people lined the streets of Gambia’s capital Banjul on Thursday to welcome home new President Adama Barrow days after authoritarian leader Yahya Jammeh fled into exile under pressure.

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African Governments Urged to Repeal Discriminatory Laws against Women

The Africa Ministerial Pre-Consultative Meeting on the 61st Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 61st) on the theme “Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work” opened in.

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Gambia’s Barrow Asks Regional Force to Stay For Six Months -U.N

Gambia’s new president Adama Barrow has asked a West African military operation, which pressured his predecessor to go into exile after he refused to accept his election defeat, to remain.

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EU Looks to Camps in Africa to Cut Immigration

EU interior ministers will consider plans on Thursday to finance camps in Africa where the U.N. refugee agency and aid groups would process migrants to prevent them trying to cross.

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Trump, Japan’s Abe to Seek Quick Replacement for TPP

President Donald Trump will seek quick progress toward a bilateral trade agreement with Japan in place of a broader Asia-Pacific deal he abandoned this week, when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo.

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Tanzania Secures $225m Loan from World Bank Approves for Water Sector

The World Bank’s board of executive directors has approved a $225 million loan to Tanzania to improve water supply in the African nation’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam, the bank.

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Zimbabwe: Floods Hit Borrowdale

Paidamoyo Chipunza — ands and Rural Resettlement Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora and many others from his neighbourhood in Borrowdale Brooke, Harare, yesterday woke up to massive destruction and flooded homes..

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This Thing Called Corruption

By Omagbitse Barrow I grew up in what used to be lovely little place called Festac Town in Lagos in the 1980s, and sometime in the late 1980s to early.

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UN to Help Ensure Smooth Transition in Gambia

The United Nations has deployed officials to Gambia to help ensure a smooth transition from former President Yahya Jammeh’s government to that of incoming President Adama Barrow, according to Dr..

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South Africa: Drought Continues Despite Good Rains

  While there have been good rains, the country is still firmly in a drought situation – and has not recovered enough to relax the restrictions to water use, implemented.

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