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Dialling in on Spam Call Research in Three Key African Markets:
Truecaller Insights Reveals the Top 20 Countries Affected by Spam Calls in 2017 NAIROBI, Kenya, 13 Jul 2017 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Annoying and unwanted spam calls are on the rise around the globe, with Truecaller’s Truecaller Insights: Top 20 Countries Affected by Spam Calls in 2017 report revealing that…
Read More »Police fire tear gas at protesters demanding fair vote
Police in Zimbabwe fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse scores of opposition supporters demanding fair elections next year. Around 100 young supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) took to the streets of Harare on Wednesday to protest against what they say are plans by the country’s electoral…
Read More »UN: Another 38 probable mass graves found in DR Congo
Another 38 probable mass graves have been found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where violence between troops and armed fighters has killed thousands of people since August, the United Nations announced on Wednesday. This means at least 80 mass graves have been identified so far, the UN peacekeeping mission…
Read More »US threatens sanctions on anyone delaying DR Congo vote
The United States on Tuesday threatened to impose further targeted unilateral sanctions on anyone who hinders Democratic Republic of Congo’s already delayed preparations for an election to replace President Joseph Kabila. The country’s election commission president said on Sunday that the vote, originally due in November 2016, was unlikely to…
Read More »Zambia parliament approves 90-day state of emergency
Zambia‘s parliament has approved a 90-day state of emergency decreed by President Edgar Lungu in a move critics say is an effort to tighten his grip on power. Opposition lawmakers boycotted the vote on Tuesday, leaving only the 85 members of the president’s majority party to pass the measure. …
Read More »Kenyan tea farmers wary of new ‘fairly traded’ label
Small-scale tea farmers in Kenya are uncertain about what a new “fairly traded” logo will mean for them. Britain’s supermarket chain has launched the scheme, replacing the well-known Fairtrade label in its stores. Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller reports from the Rift Valley, Kenya. The post Kenyan tea farmers wary of…
Read More »Rising violence forces 40,000 more to flee CAR’s east
A fresh wave of violence has forced 40,000 more people to flee from their homes in the Central African Republic (CAR), bringing the number of refugees in the country’s east to 100,000, an NGO says. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) reported on Monday that the ongoing fighting in the CAR…
Read More »Peace Clubs: Rwanda’s post-genocide search for renewal
Muganza, Rwanda – Felix Kanamugire was a killer during the Rwandan genocide, when between 800,000 and one million people, primarily Tutsis, were killed over the course of three months in 1994. For his crimes, he was among the 120,000 men and women imprisoned in the aftermath of the slaughter. Once…
Read More »Countdown to Next Einstein Forum Global Gathering 2018 Kigali begins
KIGALI,Rwanda, 10 July 2017 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- On the heels of a successful Africa Science Week, the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) announces the NEF Global Gathering 2018 will be held 26-28 March 2018. An initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in partnership with the Robert Bosch…
Read More »Le compte à rebours pour la prochaine Rencontre Internationale du Next Einstein Forum Einstein 2018 à Kigali commence
KIGALI, Rwanda, 10 juillet 2017 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Après le succès de sa Semaine Africaine de la Science, le Next Einstein Forum (NEF) annonce que la Rencontre Internationale du NEF 2018 aura lieu du 26 au 28 mars 2018. Le NEF, une initiative de l’Institut panafricain des Sciences Mathématiques…
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Africa Re-Union Debuts at FNB Art Joburg: Africa Turns the Map, the Table and the Story
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 9 September 2025/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Africa Re-Union, a landmark …
