TANZANIA CALLS FOR AFRICAN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT

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Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has called for greater investment in African-owned infrastructure as leaders, financiers and investors gathered in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday for the Africa50 General Shareholders' Meeting and the Infra for Africa Forum.

TORRENTIAL RAINS DEVASTATE FREETOWN

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Emergency teams continued search, rescue and damage assessments across Freetown on Tuesday after hours of torrential rain flooded homes, tore through roads and triggered slope collapses across the Sierra Leonean capital.

TRUMP VOWS TO KEEP STRAIT OPEN

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US President Donald Trump said Iran wouldn't be 'charging' for the use of the Strait of Hormuz – and that he wouldn't let them 'take charge' – as he spoke from the White House in DC on Monday.

BLIND STUDENTS RETURN TO SCHOOL

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Visually impaired students returned to their specialist school in Khartoum following three years of civil war despite the center sustained damages.

A number of students were seen inside the institute receiving lessons in Braille and in the institute's corridors and courtyard.

ANTI-MIGRATION PROTEST HELD IN SPAIN

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Anti-migration protesters gathered outside the Moroccan consulate in the southern Spanish port city of Algeciras on Sunday, before marching towards the port.

Activists called for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to resign and demanded the deportation of migrants from Spain.

LAMOLA DEFENDS SOUTH AFRICA'S IMMIGRATION POLICY

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South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola has rejected allegations by Ghanaian nationals over South Africa's treatment of foreign migrants, saying the country has the "sovereign right to enforce its immigration laws" while condemning isolated acts of violence.

SA WORKERS DEMAND PERMANENT JOBS

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South African workers have launched a sit-in over 'broken promises', demanding permanent jobs.

Trade unions and workers marched through Johannesburg on Wednesday to demand permanent jobs, the insourcing of outsourced workers, and the reinstatement of dismissed employees.

GHANA DEMANDS JUSTICE FOR SOUTH AFRICA KILLINGS

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Ghanaian Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa demanded arrests and prosecutions over the killings of two Ghanaian nationals in South Africa as a flight in the latest phase of a voluntary repatriation operation landed in Accra on Monday.

WOMEN VIE FOR TOP UN LEADERSHIP ROLE

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Four seasoned stateswomen are leading a historic charge to become the first-ever female United Nations Secretary-General.

DR CONGO BATTLES DEADLY EBOLA OUTBREAK

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo is struggling to contain a worsening Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people and infected 2,536, as conflict, mass displacement and limited healthcare continue to fuel the spread of the Bundibugyo strain.