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Police National Commissioner Bheki Cele on Monday night denied lying to Parliament about the rentals of two buildings that amounted to over R700m.
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African universities are key to remaking the continent, former South African president Thabo Mbeki says.
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Change in the leadership of the country is set to come in next year, Egypt’s Mohamed ElBaradei says, calling for a boycott of parliamentary polls in November.
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Floodwaters have displaced nearly 16 000 people in north-eastern Ethiopia, the UN says, weeks after thousands were affected in the country’s central region.
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Police say they detained democracy activists on the eve of protests in Swaziland, sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarchy.
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The Congolese government says 26 people have died in two boating disasters, denying initial reports that hundreds could have died.
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The death toll from rioting that broke in Maputo last week has risen to 13, Mozambique's health minister has said.
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Security forces in the Central African Republic have arrested Slovak nationals for plotting a coup, but Bratislava is insisting the men were on safari.
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An Ethiopian rebel group has warned foreign oil and gas firms to stay out of the country and rejected government claims that the disputed Ogaden region is now safe for exploration companies.
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Several Malian health ministry officials have been arrested in connection with a probe into embezzlement from the Global Fund against Aids, a top prosecutor has said.
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Mozambican police have deployed across impoverished neighbourhoods in the capital Maputo to prevent fresh protests over food prices.
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Author Alice Walker will visit South Africa for the first time in September this year to deliver the 11th Steve Biko Memorial Lecture.
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Troop contributions for UN peacekeeping missions are helping African nations build a buffer against criticism over democratic and human rights failings.
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Plans to have Zimbabweans in SA apply for new permits following the end of a special dispensation have been criticised by several organisations.
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Unicef says more than 300 people have died in the West African nation of Cameroon from the country’s worst cholera outbreak in 20 years.
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Plans to have Zimbabweans in SA apply for new permits following the end of a special dispensation by home affairs are impractical, Zim's MDC party has said.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame has hit back at his international critics, using his inauguration for a second term to insist that African needs no lessons from the wider world.
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A man arrested in connection with the theft of rugby player Bees Roux's credit card will remain in custody pending further investigation.
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Almost 150 people have been arrested in Mozambique in the wake of riots over soaring bread prices in which 10 people were killed, a report says.
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Mozambican mobile phone users have found they cannot send text messages, technology that has been used to call protests in the country over food increases.
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