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By Ebi Kesiena About a fifth of all prisoners in Zimbabwe were released on Thursday under a presidential amnesty a few months ahead of crunch general elections. According to Zimbabwe’s Correctional Services, a total of 4,270...

By Ebi Kesiena Head of the Kenya Bureau of Standards, alongside more than two dozen officials have been suspended, after around 1,000 tons of sugar were released to the market despite being declared unfit for consumption....

By Oyintari Ben The patriarch of the wealthiest family in the United Kingdom and the Indian billionaire head of a global corporate empire, Srichand Hinduja, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 87, according to...

By Oyintari Ben According to a government official who spoke to reporters, South Africa will put up for auction at least ten new onshore blocks for shale gas development in the ecologically sensitive Karoo region as...

By Oyintari Ben Despite China's attempts to isolate the democratically run island, Taiwan said it still hoped to be invited to the opening of the annual assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on...

By Ebi Kesiena Three senior Ghanaian officials said on Wednesday that the International Monetary Fund's executive board has approved a $3 billion, three-year extended credit facility for Ghana. As the West African country tries to overcome...