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Vodacom ‘co-operating’ with Lesotho Communications Authority over penalty
The Lesotho Communications Authority confirmed that it slapped Vodacom with an R8.2 million penalties for failing to pay regulatory fees on time.
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Lawyers 'struggling' to get appeal date in Lipolelo Thabane murder case
Thato Sibolla, the survivor of the shooting that killed Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane’s second wife Lipolelo in 2017, wants the appeal court to review Maesiah Thabane's bail.
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Lawyers challenging Lesotho first lady's bail raise concerns over ACJ's conduct
Lawyers challenging the bail of murder accused Lesotho first lady Maesiah Thabane in the appeal court said that they were struggling to obtain a date.
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Niger stampede kills 20 at handout for refugees
Aid workers confirmed the account and said about 10 people had been injured.
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Zimbabwe's central bank leaves rates unchanged
Worsening poverty is upsetting the fragile calm that’s prevailed since the 2017 coup that toppled the country's long-time President Robert Mugabe.
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Popular singer & Rwanda genocide survivor found dead in a police cell: officials
“We are very disheartened. I ask the government to promote love.”
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Quarantine travellers from China for three weeks – Zim former health minister
Zimbabwe’s former Health Minister Henry Madzorera said if the virus came into the country, it would be very difficult to stop it from spreading.
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Netanyahu: Israeli plane flies over Sudan for the first time
Israel remains technically at war with Sudan, after a decades-old Arab boycott over Palestine.
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Burkina Faso church attack kills 24 people
Among the people killed was a pastor, after gunmen stormed a church on Sunday.
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EU suspends sanctions against Grace Mugabe
After the European Council met in Brussels on Monday, it issued a statement to say restrictive measures would be lifted against four individuals in Zimbabwe.
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Burundi opposition picks presidential contender as UN warns of rights abuses
The tiny East African nation is struggling to come to terms with a violent past, characterised by colonial occupation, civil war and decades of intermittent massacres.
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Lesotho confirms Vodacom slapped with R8.2m penalty fee
Lesotho's communications authority said Vodacom was allocated R900,000 to connect internet to 30 schools but it failed to report progress.
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14 children among up to 22 dead in Cameroon massacre: UN
The three-year conflict between anglophone forces seeking to break away from French-speaking Cameroon has claimed more than 3,000 lives and forced more than 700,000 people to flee their homes.
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Tunisia talks on cabinet press on amid risk of new election
The proposed government must be approved by the deeply fragmented parliament in two weeks or there will be a new election.
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South Sudan rebels reject president's peace compromise
The rejection by rebel chief Riek Machar dashes hopes of breaking a deadlock and ending a six-year conflict that has left at least 380,000 people dead and millions in dire poverty.
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Chinese businesses in faraway Namibia feel virus fear
A notice in Chinese and English on a Chinese-owned shop in Windhoek's Chinatown spells it out: Any merchant returning to Namibia from China "must be quarantined for 14 days and keep the shop closed for that period."
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South Sudan cuts number of states from 32 to 10, unlocking peace process
The regional group IGAD had given the government until Saturday to find a solution over the number of states the country should have.
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Moteane explains allegations that put Vodacom’s Lesotho license at stake
Vodacom shareholders are surprised that the Lesotho communications authority slapped the company with R8.2 million in penalties for noncompliance.
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40 killed in attacks in restive central Mali
Thirty-one people were killed in an attack overnight in Ogossagou, a village mainly inhabited by Fulani people, while eight soldiers were killed in an ambush in the central Gao region and another in an attack on a military camp in Mondoro.
