Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s president and the leader of the ruling ZANU-PF party, has been announced winner of the country’s fiercely contested presidential election. Officials from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced on Friday that Mnangagwa received 2.46 million votes or 50.8% of the 4.8 million votes cast. Nelson Chamisa, the candidate of the opposition Movement for Democratic […]
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One-time warlord and former Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Wednesday after an 11-year absence. In June, Bemba was acquitted of war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court (ICC) after spending a decade behind bars. He had spent the last month with his wife and children in
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Opposition activists and supporters in Zimbabwe have continued their protest against the ongoing delay to announce the final results of elections held two days ago. Hundreds of opposition protesters took to Harare streets, calling on authorities to release official presidential election results. Police fired water cannon and tear gas at the protesters in an unsuccessful
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Three Russian investigative journalists have been found dead in a vehicle with several bullet holes some 30 kilometers north of the town of Sibut in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Tuesday July 31. Reports say the bodies of the three journalists were discovered by local residents who informed regional authorities in the area and
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The Committee to Protect Journalists in New York (CPJ) has reported the arrest of ten journalists working for the television production studio, Kin Lartus in Kinshasa by Congolese police officers. CPJ says the latest arrests are part of a wider campaign of intimidation against the press ahead of the country’s upcoming elections. Two plain-clothes police officers accompanied by at least twelve other armed officers entered the news production company’s studio and arrested ten of the journalists working on Kin Lartus daily news show. The arrested journalists include Jean Jacques Kabeya, the director and chief editor; Herithier Mbula, a video editor; Fretas Mbamanku, a cameraperson; and reporters Doya Mayi, Ritha Musau, Jules Ntumba, Jazz Nyembo, Espérant Kabemba, Fretas Mbamnku, Issa Kazadi, and Grace Luntela.
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Investigators have released a dossier containing cases of alleged plagiarism contained in a dissertation submitted to the University of South Africa in 2004 by Ekundayo J. D. Thompson, the current acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone. The dossier’s release follows media reports last week that the University of South Africa (UNISA) has
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The University of South Africa (UNISA) has commenced an internal investigation into a report which listed cases of plagiarism found in a dissertation submitted to its College of Education by one of its former students, Ekundayo Jonathan David Thompson from Sierra Leone. The University of South Africa, through a long-distance learning program, awarded Ekundayo Thompson
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The higher education crisis in Sierra Leone is the focus of an international investigation, which sheds light into the history of an ongoing practice of questionable promotions criteria that is a key factor in the ineptitude and management problems bedeviling the university. The recent investigation centered, in particular, on the academic records
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The case of the revered Sierra Leonean academic, Professor Ibrahim Abdullah continues to attract serious international concerns. The latest have come from an international conference of African academics that recently met in Lilongwe, Malawi under the auspices of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) to discuss the state of
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The World Health Organization (WHO) says Red Cross volunteers working in Guinea continue to face serious threats from community people in Ebola affected areas. The WHO statement follows the attack on two Red Cross volunteers on Sunday February 8, 2015 in the town of Forécariah, few kilometers from Conakry. The aid workers were beaten up
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