Politics & Power
Burundi: Notorious militia chief named head of state broadcaster
Burundi has appointed the leader of the ruling party’s notorious youth league militia as head of its state-run broadcaster.
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Money & Markets
World Bank contradicts Tanzania’s economic growth estimates
The World Bank says Tanzania’s economy grew by 5.2 percent in 2018, contradicting the country’s finance minister who told parliament last year that growth
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Health & Security
WHO says Ebola patient may have travelled to Rwanda
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday withdrew a report that said an Ebola patient may have entered Rwanda while infected with the disease,
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Comment
Lifting the resource curse from Kenya’s nascent oilfields
Since the first discoveries of substantial oil reserves in Kenya’s Lokichar Basin in 2012, the country has been caught in a seemingly interminable battle
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