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Kenya census to include male, female and intersex citizens
The national population census will recognise people who don't identify as either male or female.
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Ransomware hits Johannesburg electricity supply
A ransomware attack is blamed for causing electricity supply problems in South Africa's biggest city.
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Fifa bans former Sierra Leone FA official for five years
Former Sierra Leone Football Association official Abu Bakarr Kabba is the latest person to be banned by Fifa.
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Boris Johnson: Does Africa shrug, smile or scowl?
The age of empire is long gone, and the UK has to compete with other powers for influence in Africa.
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Africa's week in pictures: 19-25 July 2019
A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent.
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How women's lives were revolutionised in Tunisia
In August 1956 newly independent Tunisia introduced a set of laws which revolutionised women's lives.
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Google Maps: Lagosians react to the new Nigerian accent
The Google Maps navigation service now reads directions with a Nigerian accent.
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Obituary: Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi
Beji Caid Essebsi was a secularist who became Tunisia's first freely elected president in 2014.
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Scores feared drowned in shipwreck off Libya
Up to 150 people may have drowned off the coast of Libya, the UN refugee agency says.
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Video emerges of kidnapped aid workers in Nigeria
Action Against Hunger is "strongly urging" captors to release the six employees.
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Beji Caid Essebsi: Tunisian president dies aged 92
The country's first freely elected president, and the oldest sitting president in the world, dies in Tunis.
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Bobi Wine to run for Ugandan presidency
The pop star tuned politician says he will challenge Yoweri Museveni for the presidency in 2021.
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The puzzling 'mass migration' of Ugandans to India
The number of Ugandans living in India has risen sharply, according to census data. But is that accurate?
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Suicide bomber kills six in attack on Mogadishu mayor's office
A woman bomber seriously injures the mayor of the Somali capital and kills at least six other people.
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Egypt minister downplays threat to ‘cut’ critics abroad
Nabila Makram told a meeting in Canada that critics of the country based abroad would be "cut".
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Ugandan pop star Bobi Wine to run against Yoweri Museveni
The singer calls himself the "ghetto president", and promises to champion the interests of the poor.
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Caf ExCo member Bility banned by Fifa for 10 years
Fifa bans Confederation of African Football executive committee member Musa Bility for 10 years for misappropriation of funds.
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Ugandan Joyce Bikyahaga Namata's son died in police custody
Joyce Bikyahaga Namata's son died in police custody. 12 years later she's still fighting for justice.
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Stopping child marriage with solar lanterns
Girls in Ethiopia are being given solar lamps to help stop child marriage and keep them in school.
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The horrific consequences of rubber's toxic past
The appalling treatment of Congo's rubber workers led to the world's first photographic human rights campaign.
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