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By John Ikani The South African government says that stones found in a village last month are not diamonds but quartz. People from across South Africa travelled to KwaHlathi in eastern KwaZulu-Natal province where villagers had...

By John Ikani Uganda has begun distribution the distribution of the third batch of Coronavirus (COVID-19) AstraZeneca vaccines. According to Sheila Nduhukire, spokesperson for the National Medical Stores, distribution of the vaccines received from the global...

By John Ikani Togo’s has closed its western and eastern borders as part of efforts geared towards curbing Covid-19 surge. Although Togo reports relatively low numbers of 13,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 125 deaths, the West...

By John Ikani South Sudan had launched a campaign to plant 100 million trees in the next 10 years. The launch on Thursday was part of the celebration for World Environment Day in Juba under the...

By John Ikani South Africa Presidency has announced that it has declared 10 days of national mourning for Zambia's founding president Kenneth Kaunda who died at the age of 97 following a bout of pneumonia. The...

By John Ikani A Swiss court has handed Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah a 20-year prison sentence for war crimes during the country’s civil war in the 1990s, a ruling welcomed by activists and human rights...