Brand Africa in association with the JSE, Friday announced the Top 100 best brands in Africa on their 6th annual Brand Africa 100: Africa's Best Brands at the JSE in Johannesburg. The US sports and fitness brand, Nike, is the overall #1 brand in Africa spontaneously recalled by consumers. South
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In provisional, but almost complete results, Burundi's electoral commission has said people have voted to extend presidential terms - potentially extending current leader Pierre Nkurunziza's rule to 2034. According to the provisional results, 73.6% voted in favour, 19.3% voted against, 4.1% of the votes were void, and 3.2% abstained. More
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Deep Kamara, the country manager of Dangote Cement Ethiopia, has been killed by gunmen. According to reports by the Addis Standard, Reuters and several other Ethiopian news outlets, Kamara was shot dead on Wednesday afternoon by unknown assailants near the Dangote Cement Factory located some 85 kilometers west of Addis
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A Kenyan satellite has been launched into space for the first time. The satellite which was developed and assembled by the University of Nairobi with assistance from Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency was launched from the International Space Station. The nano-satellite which is not much larger than a coffee cup is
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A woman has been stoned to death in Somalia after a court run by al-Shabab convicted her of having several husbands, the militant group says. Shukri Abdullahi Warsame was accused of marrying 11 times, without divorcing her previous husbands. She was buried neck-deep and pelted to death with stones by
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Zimbabwe's Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has denied he uses skin whitening creams, reports News 24. According to the Chronicle newspaper, he made the denial after being mocked on social media - with some cruel users dubbing him "Bleachy Chiwenga" and "General Ambi". He took the opportunity to set the record straight
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Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed two cases of Ebola in the northwestern town of Bikoro and at least 10 more cases are suspected, the head of the national institute for biological research, Jean Jack Muyembe, said on Tuesday. A source at the ministry of health also said two cases
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Burundi has announced a six-month ban on broadcasts by Voice of America and the BBC, two weeks before the country votes on proposed amendments to the constitution, including changes in presidential term limits. The ban was announced Friday by Burundi's National Communications Council, which accused VOA and the BBC of
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A Japanese woman born in the final year of the 19th century and believed to have been the world’s oldest person died on Saturday, Kyodo news agency said. She was 117, Reuters reports. Nabi Tajima, born in 1900, died from old age at a hospital on her native southwestern island
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Zimbabwe's Parliament has summoned former President Robert Mugabe to give evidence about a claim he made about huge-scale diamond theft, the BBC reports. Mr Mugabe accused foreign mining firms of "swindling" and "smuggling" in an interview on state-run TV in 2016. "The companies have virtually robbed us of our wealth,"
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