South African anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Mandela has died aged 81, her personal assistant says. Winnie is ex-wife of Nelson Mandela. "She died after a long illness, for which she had been in and out of hospital since the start of the year," Victor Dlamini said in a statement. "She succumbed
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A smartphone app to help women identify if they are in an abusive relationship and safely leave will be launched in some African countries next year, its developer said. Myplan - an app developed by researchers at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing - has about 10,000 users in
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China has imposed tariffs of up to 25% on 128 US imports, including pork and wine, after US President Donald Trump raised duties on foreign steel and aluminum imports in March, the BBC reports. The tariffs affecting some $3bn (Shs11 trillion) of imports kick in on Monday. Beijing said the
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It’s not party time yet for dfcu bank as borrowers increasingly fail to pay back their loans, a thing that could adversely affect the bank’s performance going forward. According to dfcu bank’s released results for 2017, borrowers have completely failed to pay back Shs27.2bn (the bank has since written off
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Uchumi Supermarkets has used all the KSh700 million (Shs25.5bn) bailout cash it received from the government in December, prompting it to seek the assistance of financial institutions to pay staff, Kenyan media report. The retail chain, which has not paid salaries since December, on Thursday said it used the last
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Plans for commercial cultivation of genetically modified maize in Kenya have been dealt a blow after a plants agency declined to give State scientists the green light to proceed with the exercise, Business Daily reports. National Biosafety Authority, the body responsible for regulating GMOs, had late last year written to
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There are now a record 2,208 billionaires in the world, Forbes counted, and their combined worth is $9.1 trillion, up 18 per cent from last year. The US has the most billionaires (585), followed by mainland China (373). Here are the top five world’s richest men. Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos
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