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Mali to remove 13,000 ghost workers from payroll, saving U.S.$50 million

Mali has become the latest African country to embark on a program to identify and remove ghost workers from the public service payroll, in the fight...
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Peacebuilding in CAR: how the AU can be more effective

In February, Faustin-Archange Touadéra was elected president of the Central African Republic (CAR), ending a three-year-long transition in the country. This has given CAR a new...
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Social media reacts to Wayde van Niekerk’s 400m gold and world record

History has been made at the Rio Olympics, 24 year-old South African sprinter, Wayde van Niekerk etched his name into the history books after smashing the...
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War veterans on the war path in Zimbabwe

There is a Shona proverb about how searing the hatred can be between people who used to love each other. You could say this about the...
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Clay Pots Hold the Key to Understanding Kenyan Cultures

Margaretta wa Gacheru spends time at an exhibition in Nairobi showcasing clay pots, some thousands of years old, and is surprised by what she learns about...

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