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Jun 9
🚨 POLITICISING THE FIFA WORLD CUP US authorities subject Lions of Teranga to humiliating search after the Senegalese team landed in US soil for the FIFA World Cup. Senegal is one of the 10 African teams participating in this year's World Cup. The others are 🇩🇿 Algeria 🇨🇻 Cape
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Sep 25, 2025
VIDEO - Foreign riders succumb to heat at the UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda.
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Sep 24, 2025
🇷🇼Rwanda is currently hosting the UCI Road World Championships, making history as the first African nation to host the prestigious cycling event. The championships are taking place in Kigali from September 21 to 28, 2025
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Sep 30, 2025
Former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has been sentenced to death and ordered to pay $30 billion in damages
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Nov 7, 2025
Tanzanians are planning a mega protest on December 9th, a day that coincides with the country’s Independence Day. What was meant to mark freedom has now become a rallying point to demand the removal of Samia Suluhu over the mass killings and arrests following the disputed
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Nov 11, 2025
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk calls for immediate investigations into killings and violations linked to Tanzania's October 29 elections.
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Nov 10, 2025
⚡🇧🇼🇹🇿Former Botswana President Ian Khama describes Tanzanian Samia Suluhu as ILLEGITIMATE PRESIDENT. “The recent election in Tanzania and from what transpired, the killings around the election… I for once do not recognise the person who was inaugurated as the President of
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Sep 23, 2025
🇰🇪Kenya bans Muslim Brotherhood, designates it as a Terrorist Organization.
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Nov 7, 2025
Businesswoman Niffer Jovin has appeared in court after being charged with treason by the Tanzanian government, all because she danced to a song mocking President Samia Suluhu Hassan on TikTok.
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Oct 25, 2025
🇹🇿Free but fears for life Tundu Lissu, the Tanzanian opposition leader, has won his treason case against the government, and he has decided to remain in prison up to 29th October. According to the Supreme Court in Tanzania, on Friday, 24th October, 2025, the charges against him
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Aug 2, 2025
❗BBC set to release a documentary highlighting child sex trafficking in Kenya. Kenyans online demand arrests.
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Sep 8, 2025
🇰🇪Kenya's President William Ruto is visiting Ethiopia to serve as chief guest at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) inauguration, Africa's largest hydropower project (6,450 MW capacity). Kenya's foreign policy has been laughable under the UDA administration that doesn't
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Oct 7, 2025
🇹🇿❗A former Tanzanian ambassador and outspoken government critic, Mr. Humphrey Polepole's has been abducted by unknown individuals at his home, BBC reports from family sources Samia Suluhu Hassan has been on an injustice overdrive in Tanzania.
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Sep 24, 2025
🇷🇼Rwanda is currently hosting the UCI Road World Championships, making history as the first African nation to host the prestigious cycling event. The championships are taking place in Kigali from September 21 to 28, 2025
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Oct 27, 2025
🚨DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS 🇹🇿In Tanzania’s 2025 Election, the country's first female President Samia Suluhu Hassan seeks re-election on Oct 29. She has jailed major rivals like Chadema’s Tundu Lissu and disqualified others as she clamped down brutally on key critics.
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