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Fans pour into S.Africa Comic Con despite few celebrity headliners
Johannesburg (AFP) – A 16-year-old in a yellow spandex Wolverine suit, claws fashioned from plastic straws, squared off against a stockier Deadpool two years his junior at Comic Con Africa, the continent's largest pop culture gathering.
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Race, power and money in South Africa
The staggering costs of Black Economic Empowerment
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South Africa revises trade agreement with US
Pretoria says the measure is a response to the 30% tariff the Trump administration imposed on the country’s exports
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Tears and outrage in South Africa as accused in pig farm murder walks free
Adrian de Wet says he was forced to throw the bodies of two black women into the pig enclosure.
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Ghana Helicopter Crash Kills 8, Including Defense and Environment Ministers
The helicopter had taken off from Accra, the capital, en route to a mining conference when it went “off the radar,” the armed forces said.
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Ghana’s defence, environment ministers among 8 killed in helicopter crash
Ghana's defence and environment chiefs were killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday along with six others, the presidency said. The incident comes at a time of heightened regional security concerns amid rising jihadist activity near Ghana's northern border.
Ivory Coast leader seeks fourth term after rivals sidelined
Opponents including ex-Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam are barred from standing in October vote
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Muhammadu Buhari failed to build a better Nigeria, twice
A dictator, then a democratic president, he died on July 13th, aged 82
Congo and Rwanda Sign a Peace Accord in Washington
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a U.S.-brokered peace deal, aiming to end one of the world’s most pernicious conflicts and open their shared stretch of East African mineral wealth to U.S. investment.
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Kenyans Return to the Streets a Year After Deadly Tax Protests
The police fired tear gas at demonstrators who were expressing anger at the government over growing economic hardship and a lack of accountability for killings at earlier rallies.
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Four Ivory Coast opposition figures barred from October presidential election
Four major opposition figures will be unable to contest Ivory Coast's October presidential election, the country's electoral commission announced Wednesday, having been struck from the final voter list.
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Nigeria cracks down on ‘spraying’ money at parties to defend currency
Authorities are jailing people for throwing cash at parties after 70% fall in naira’s value over two years
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Trump ambushes South Africa’s Ramaphosa over genocide claims in testy White House meeting
US President Donald Trump confronted South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House on Wednesday with contentious claims that Ramaphosa's government is conducting a "White genocide". A video clip of a fringe group of extremist Black South Africans addressing the land ownership issue was screened at the Oval Office, prompting Ramaphosa to push back against Trump’s accusations, saying his government was opposed to such actions.
Why South Africa’s president could be walking into an Oval Office ‘buzzsaw’
Cyril Ramaphosa wants to talk trade. But President Trump remains fixated on his country’s racial politics.
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Can Mandela's former negotiator fix fractious relations with Trump?
The South African president will try to reset relations with the US in a high-stakes White House meeting on Wednesday.
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