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- African leaders jet off to Beijing for 2024 China-Africa Summit
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- 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
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- Floyd Shivambu appointed National Organiser of MK – South Africa’s 3rd biggest political party
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- Ex-Namibian 1st Lady Geingos appointed chancellor of Rwanda’s Kepler College
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- Kenyan businessman Jimi Wanjigi arrested for allegedly sponsoring anti-government protests
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- South Africa withdraws 2500MW Nuclear Procurement – Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokopa
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- 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
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- 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
- Europe adopts first international AI treaty
- Namibia’s VP Nangolo Mbumba sworn in as new President
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- DRC opposition leader Jean-Marc Kabund sentenced to 7 years in prison
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- Sudan appoints first female Chief Justice: Nemat Abdullah Khair
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- 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
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- 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
- Zimbabwe’s youngest pilot, 19-year-old Simbarashe Machigere
