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An African President is usually identified by the expensive trips he takes across the world in attempts to consolidate himself as a leader and perhaps build relations between his countries and those outside Africa. John Magufuli however is one very strange president, the Tanzanian leader has apparently never set foot outside Africa since his election as president in 2015. The ...

Eight of the European Union nations will have to wait a little longer to get the coronavirus vaccine as Pfizer has postponed deliveries. So far the only known country that will be affected by this delay is Spain. The company did not reveal which countries these delays will affect. The Spanish branch of Pfizer informed Madrid on Sunday night that ...

Local authorities have found a group of five Five people, believed to be members of the same family, murdered in the small town of Atkins, in Arkansas, US. Local police describe the incident as a ‘tragedy’. A spokesman for the Pope County sheriff’s office said: “Tragedy has struck Pope County on this Christmas Day. Just a little after 5pm our ...

Tensions between the government and rebel forces have continued to increase in the Central African Republic where three UN peacekeepers were recently killed. The UN said unidentified combatants carried out two attacks, leaving two other peacekeepers injured. The group was stationed in CAR to quell violence ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections that are to take place on Sunday. Current ...

An attack by gunmen in western Benishangul-Gumuz in Ethiopia on Wednesday leftover 100 people dead according to the human rights commission. Residents of the region have since been forced to flee the latest deadly assault in an area bedeviled by ethnic violence. In a statement from a state-run media agency, the attack occurred in the village of Bekoji in Bulen ...