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These roving fitness instructors are using African dance to ensure healthy living in black communities
African-Americans suffer from more lifestyle diseases than other races in the United States due to unhealthy eating habits and lack of exercise. Diabetes, hypertension, stroke, obesity and many other lifestyle...
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After 36 years in office, Cameroon’s ‘absentee president’ just won another election
Cameroon’s 85-year-old president Paul Biya wins another election, securing him a seventh term in office and the title of Africa’s oldest president. The result announced on Monday by the president...
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Ethiopia and Rwanda raise the global bar with gender-balanced governments
Gender-equality has been a widely held debate globally and a distant reality in Africa, where women play minor roles in all the major sectors of the economy including politics. This trend is about to change...
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South African school hit by 36 teen pregnancies in a year, one boy impregnates 3 girls
South Africa’s Limpopo province has been hit by a teenage pregnancy scare after a high school recorded a staggering 36 pregnancies in the past year with 13 of the girls diagnosed with HIV. According...
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How a Nigerian governor’s $5,000 ‘gift’ cost 15 African journalists their jobs at VOA
The trouble started on January 9, 2018, when a brown envelope containing $5,000 was allegedly handed over to a staff member of the Hausa section of the Voice of America (VOA) in Washington DC by a member...
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Make Africa Great Again: Kanye West switches tongue in ‘second home’ Uganda
American rapper Kanye West is having an intriguing time in Uganda where he is vacationing and recording his forthcoming album – Yandhi – which he plans to release on Black Friday, November...
