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Burundi frees over a thousand prisoners in a presidential pardon
Burundi has freed 1,300 prisoners in the first stage of a presidential pardon aimed at emptying overcrowded jails in the…
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India on a brink of humanitarian catastrophe as countries step in to offer COVID-19 aid
India, a country of over 1.3 billion people is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe, as several countries race…
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Germany faces lockdown until June as measures fail to push down cases
Authorities in Germany are warning that the ongoing lockdown is likely to remain in force until the end of May…
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Tunisia asks for IMF finance programme
Tunisia has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a new financing programme and is preparing to start talks with…
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Total declares force majeure on Mozambique LNG project, withdraws staff after insurgency
French energy company Total has declared force majeure on its Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project in Mozambique. In a statement,…
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How Huawei is optimizing portfolio to boost business resilience
Huawei is looking to software engineering to boost business resilience to cope with the uncertainty brought by geopolitical tension, the…
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LG to wind up smartphone business, completely withdraw from market
LG Electronics, South Korea’s second-largest appliance firm after Samsung, is closing down its loss-making mobile phone business, after failing to…
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40 people killed in Sudan’s West Darfur
At least 40 people were killed in violent clashes in El Geneina, the capital city of Sudan’s West Darfur state,…
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Oil down 5% as rising OPEC+, Iranian output weighs
Oil fell by more than Ksh. 326.46 ($3) a barrel on Monday as rising supply from OPEC+ and higher Iranian…
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US calls for global minimum corporate tax
The United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called on other countries to join Washington in setting a global minimum corporate…
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