Zimbabwean father Tendai Sibanda is demanding more than R3 million in damages after Ethiopian Airlines blocked his underage son from boarding a flight from Johannesburg to Egypt, where he was supposed to play in a tennis tournament.
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Nestle is expanding a programme that boosts the income of poor African farmers supplying cocoa for its KitKat bars, but which still leaves pay well short of growers’ needs.
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Kenyan Airways (KQ) will not be operating on the Kinshasa-Nairobi route as from Tuesday because of the "unlawful detention" of its employees by Congolese military intelligence.
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Zimbabwe’s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at its first policy meeting since unveiling the gold-backed currency, the ZiG.
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Two senior Cabinet ministers and a former colleague have been banned from leaving the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital because of an allegedly inflated tender for streetlights and the drilling of boreholes, even before they appear in court.
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At least 42 people have been killed when a dam burst its banks in a town north of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the local governor told AFP on Monday, as the country battles heavy rains and floods.
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Burkina Faso has suspended several international news organisations, some of them for an indefinite period, said a statement from communications regulator the CSC.
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Tanzania has dismissed as "unfounded" allegations of killings, rapes and the planned evictions that led the World Bank to suspend funding for a $150 million conservation project.
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In early April, Arsenal were blowing hot and cold in the English Premier League. In Beitbridge, Zimbabwe, a club supporter stabbed a colleague who had made fun of Arsenal's run.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo government has recalled all civil servants working for former president Joseph Kabila, effectively stripping him of state security and supporting staff.
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