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- Eswatini opposition leader hospitalised in SA after suspected poisoning

- Namibia police chief’s contract renewed for another 3 years – Joseph Shikongo

- Sri Lanka’s opposition leader wins 2024 presidential election – Anura Kumara Dissanayake

- South African President Ramaphosa signs BELA bill into law as Education Minister snubs ceremony

- Zimbabwe’s Vambo AI and South Sudan’s Asili win the 2024 Äänit Prize for social impact in Africa

- Highschool drop-out & Billionaire Jared Isaacman Completes World’s First Private Spacewalk

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- Zambian President Hichilema fires army commander Dennis Sitali Alibuzwi

- Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris for president ahead of United States 2024 election

- OpenAI releases new o1 model that reasons like a PhD student

- Nigeria launches $60 000 AI Fund for start-ups in partnership with Google

- Ex-US government official charged with spying for China

- Lebanon’s ex-central bank governor Riad Salameh arrested

- South Africa’s one-time youngest mayor Bongani Baloyi joins Jacob Zuma’s MK

- Zambia’s ChitChat Launches USD Virtual Debit Cards as It Eyes Cross-Border Payments

- Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba resigns

- Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine shot in the leg by police

- South Africa’s first female Chief Justice Mandisa Maya assumes office

- Brazil blocks X as Elon Musk vs Judge De Moraes feud escalates – A Lula vs Bolsonaro proxy war?

- South African-born Chidima Adethina wins Miss Universe Nigeria 2024

- Machete-wielding Zambian ruling party supporters block opposition leader Kalaba’s interview at Radio Yusuf

- African leaders jet off to Beijing for 2024 China-Africa Summit

- Botswana President Masisi nominated ruling party candidate ahead of 2024 election

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- First Jan 6 US Capitol protester Michael Sparks sentenced to 4 years in prison

- Ex-Joburg Speaker Colleen Makhubele dumps party she founded to join Zuma’s MK

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- California AI Safety Bill passed by State Assembly

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- New MK Party MPs sworn into South African parliament

- Starlink launches in Botswana – Live in 105 countries

- US prosecutors re-charge ex-President Trump for trying to overturn 2020 election

- Kenyan President Ruto Launches Raila Odinga’s AU Commission Chairmanship Bid

- Ghana’s ex-president John Mahama launches NDC election manifesto

- Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed opens 300,000 loaves a day bread factory in Assosa

- Robert F Kennedy Jr suspends US presidential campaign & backs Trump

- Zambian President Hichilema opens 3 new hospitals in 2 days

- Rwanda to host 2024 Global AI Summit on Africa

- Floyd Shivambu appointed National Organiser of MK – South Africa’s 3rd biggest political party

- DRC President Tshisekedi accuses Joseph Kabila of planning an insurrection

- Ex-Namibian 1st Lady Geingos appointed chancellor of Rwanda’s Kepler College

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- Indian start-ups raise $395 million in a week – Oyo leads with $175 million

- Kenyan businessman Jimi Wanjigi arrested for allegedly sponsoring anti-government protests

- Zambia launches national geophysical survey to map country’s mineral wealth

- South Africa withdraws 2500MW Nuclear Procurement – Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokopa

- Zimbabwean AI Start-up List

- Angie Motshekga appointed Acting SA President as Ramaphosa attends SADC Summit in Zimbabwe

- Thailand’s youngest Prime Minister elected – Paetongtarn Shinawatra – Third in Thaksin family dynasty

- Zambian President Hichilema reveals $2000 per month salary

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- DRC’s former PM Sama Lukonde elected Senate president

- Johannesburg mayor Kabelo Gwamanda resigns after ANC & ActionSA agree on a coalition

- Comparing Africa’s AI regulations by country

- US VP Kamala Harris picks Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as running mate

- African Union launches Continental AI strategy

- Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus sworn in as head of Bangladesh’s interim government

- Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina forced to resign by student-led anti-quota protestors

- US VP Kamala Harris secures the Democratic presidential nomination – First Black & Asian woman

- M23 rebels not automatically bound by DRC-Rwanda ceasefire agreement signed in Angola

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- EU AI Act is now in force – The world’s first Artificial Intelligence regulation

- Angola announces ceasefire agreement between DRC and Rwanda

- US President Joe Biden drops out of 2024 re-election bid & endorses VP Kamala Harris

- Ex-US President Trump picks former critic Ohio, Senator JD Vance as running mate

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- Europe adopts first international AI treaty

- Namibia’s VP Nangolo Mbumba sworn in as new President

- Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets

- Tupac murder suspect Duane Keffe D Davis arrested

- DRC opposition leader Jean-Marc Kabund sentenced to 7 years in prison

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- General Oligui Nguéma Brice named Gabon’s Interim President after a military coup

- Gabon President Ali Bongo deposed in military coup

- Tunisian Prime Minister Najila Bouden fired by President Kais Saied

- Zambian ex-first lady Esther Lungu arrested for money laundering & car theft

- South African police legally allowed to spy using IMSI-catchers (Phone signal grabbers)

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- Sudan appoints first female Chief Justice: Nemat Abdullah Khair

- 20 reasons why Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize

- US pastor deported from Rwanda for holding a press conference without authorization: Gregg Schoof

- Kagame launches Africa’s first smartphone factory – Made in Rwanda Mara phones

- Sudan military hires ex-Israeli spy Ari Ben-Menashe to lobby US govt for $6 million

- 20 South African teenagers build own plane, flying it from Cape to Cairo

- Donald Trump first sitting US president in North Korea after meeting Kim Jong-un in DMZ

- [Video] Another military coup a possibility in Zimbabwe – Tendai Biti

- Malawi’s Mutharika appoints 24 member cabinet with 18 ministers & 6 deputies

- Israel PM’s wife Sara Netanyahu convicted of misusing public funds

- Sudan’s ex-president Omar al-Bashir charged with corruption
