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Malawi counted votes Wednesday after general elections overshadowed by surging costs and chronic fuel shortages that have hampered the term of outgoing President Lazarus Chakwera. The ailing economy of the southern African country, one of the poorest in the world, dominated Tuesday’s voting with front-runner and former president Peter Mutharika promising solutions and a “return to …

Malawi counts votes as two presidents battle for powerWed, 17 Sep 2025 08:20:37 GMT Read More »

Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah believes voters in junta-led Guinea desire a “dynamic of change” which he says a new constitution being voted on Sunday would provide, but the opposition has called for a boycott of the referendum.Four years after a coup overthrew elected president Alpha Conde, Guinea’s 6.7 million voters are being asked whether …

Guinea PM says new constitution would bring ‘dynamic of change’Wed, 17 Sep 2025 05:45:16 GMT Read More »

Four years after the military seized power, Guineans will finally vote on a new draft constitution that would pave the way for elections but also permit the country’s junta leader to run for president, in a referendum boycotted by the opposition.The Sunday vote, which Guineans and the international community have been awaiting for years, opens …

Junta accused of coveting power in crucial Guinea referendumWed, 17 Sep 2025 05:41:54 GMT Read More »

Malawians voted Tuesday in elections overshadowed by soaring prices and crippling fuel shortages, with the economic gloom a challenge to President Lazarus Chakwera’s bid for a second term.In a crowded field of 17 candidates, observers said Chakwera’s closest rival was his predecessor, 85-year-old Peter Mutharika, a law professor who has spent decades living outside of …

Malawi votes in economic gloom as two presidents battle for powerTue, 16 Sep 2025 16:21:13 GMT Read More »

Faith Kipyegon underlined her credentials as the best middle-distance runner of all time in Tokyo on Tuesday while also having more than succeeded in showing women athletes that having a child can be the springboard to relaunch their careers.Kipyegon’s fourth world 1,500m title further cemented her grip on the event on the global stage, the …

Faith Kipyegon: Supreme Kenyan champion and role model for mothersTue, 16 Sep 2025 15:55:41 GMT Read More »

A Nairobi court issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for a British citizen in connection with the high-profile death of a young Kenyan mother whose body was found in a septic tank over a decade ago.Agnes Wanjiru, 21, died in 2012 after she reportedly went partying with British soldiers at a hotel in central Nanyuki town, …

Kenya court seeks UK citizen’s arrest over young mother’s murderTue, 16 Sep 2025 15:16:32 GMT Read More »

Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon produced a trademark devastating last lap to win an unprecedented fourth world women’s 1,500 metres title in Tokyo on Tuesday.The Kenyan, also three-time Olympic champion over the distance, timed 3min 52.15sec for another gold to add to her incredible medal haul that guarantees her place in the pantheon of the very best …

Kenya’s Kipyegon wins unprecedented fourth women’s world 1,500m titleTue, 16 Sep 2025 13:28:33 GMT Read More »

Thousands of Malawians turned out to vote in general elections Tuesday with the incumbent president and his predecessor vying for a second chance to govern the southern African nation battered by soaring costs and fuel shortages.Long queues formed at outdoor polling stations across the mostly rural nation for a vote focused on the faltering economy …

Malawi votes for a new president as economic crisis bitesTue, 16 Sep 2025 12:30:32 GMT Read More »

Malawi voted in general elections Tuesday with the incumbent president and his predecessor vying for a second chance to govern the largely poor southern African nation battered by soaring costs and fuel shortages.Thousands of people waited under trees or outside schools at outdoor polling stations across the mostly rural country for a vote focused on …

Malawi votes in battle of two presidents as economic crisis bitesTue, 16 Sep 2025 09:09:23 GMT Read More »

Standing outside a public hospital in Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city, Michelin Hunsa is still “traumatised” from the two-hour wait it took to get an ambulance for her mother, found unconscious by her neighbours.Such waits can be deadly and are not unusual in the mega-city, where notorious traffic jams snarl commutes and only about 100 ambulances …

In mega-city Lagos, 20 million count on just 100 ambulancesTue, 16 Sep 2025 06:55:10 GMT Read More »