A deputy ICT director at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission in Kenya has gone missing, the electoral agency’s chairman Wafula Chebukati revealed on Sunday. “The last communication from him is an SMS text sent to one of his colleagues at around 3 am on Saturday morning. The content of
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A gunman and a police officer were killed in an attack on the home of Kenya’s deputy president in the western town of Eldoret, a senior administrator said Sunday, just more than a week before a national election. Deputy President William Ruto and his family were not at home at
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Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe, declaring "I am not dying," sought Saturday to brush aside growing concerns about his health after his wife urged him to name a successor. Mugabe's medical trips to Singapore have become frequent in recent years, fuelling questions about his health. His last visit was early this month for
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Billionaire Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote has fallen from being the 51st richest person in the world to the 105th, according to the 2017 Forbes Rich List. Forbes magazine reports that Mr Dangote's wealth dropped from $15.4bn (£11.8bn) in 2016 to $12.2bn this year, due to Nigeria's currency being devalued. Mr Dangote,
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Barclays has set aside an extra £700m to meet compensation claims for mis-selling payment protection insurance, BBC reports. The news came as the bank said costs related to the sale of part of its Africa unit had pushed it into a £1.2bn (Shs5.6bn) loss in the first half of the
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North Korea has hailed as a success its latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), describing it as a "stern warning" for the US. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the test proved that the entire US was within striking range, state media reported. The launch came three weeks
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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos’ reign on the top of the Forbes’ Real Time Billionaires List only lasted a morning. Bezos became the richest person in the world for the first time with a $90.6 billion (aboutSh900b) net worth when markets opened on Thursday. But while Amazon stock climbed
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Alphabet's Google aims to train 10 million people in Africa in online skills over the next five years in an effort to make them more employable, its chief executive said Thursday. The U.S. technology giant also hopes to train 100,000 software developers in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, a company
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Zimbabwe's first lady has urged 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe to name his choice for a successor. Grace Mugabe, who is widely thought to harbor presidential ambitions, made her comments Thursday while addressing the ZANU-PF party's women's league in Harare. According a report from the state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, the first
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has overtaken Bill Gates and is now the richest person in the world, with a fortune topping $90 billion for the first time ever, Forbes reports. When markets opened on Thursday, Bezos had a net worth of $90.6 billion, putting him $500 million ahead of Microsoft
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