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South Sudan is sending 750 troops to join the East Africa Force trying to bring peace in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This is despite its own struggles to restore peace back home. President Salva Kiir officially deployed troops to the Eastern DR Congo to join an East African regional force to end decades of bloodshed in that country. ...

News sources coming in indicate that the journalist who was on the camera and captured the embarrassing moment in which Salva Kiir, the South Sudanese president wetted his pants has been reportedly found dead. It should be recalled that social media globally was thrown into shock this week. This is after a video of President Salvar Kiir showed him involuntarily ...

Kenyan Health Ministry yesterday announced that a total of 49 people tested positive for Covid-19. The Ministry carried out the testing from a sample size of 605 people in the last 24 hours. 27 of the confirmed cases are male while 22 are women. The youngest of the infected is a 2-month-old child and the oldest is a 90-year-old. As ...

The Vice President of Malawi, Saulos Chilima, has been arrested on allegations that he accepted money in exchange for awarding government contracts, the country’s anti-corruption agency says. He is accused of receiving $280,000 (£230,000) from a British businessman “and other items”, a statement says. Dr Chilima pleaded not guilty to the corruption charges in court on Friday. They had already ...

The M23 Rebels said on Thursday that a ceasefire announced a day earlier “doesn’t really concern us,”. This was while calling for “direct dialogue” with Democratic Republic of Congo’s government. “M23 has seen the document on social media… There was nobody in the summit (from M23) so it doesn’t really concern us,” Lawrence Kanyuka, political spokesman for the M23 (March ...