Tanzanian elections: What issues are young people concerned about?

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Focus on Africa: Hundreds of stolen social media identities used to spread propaganda

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Focus on Africa Can DRC be declared ebola free?

The last ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been released from a treatment centre in Kasai province. Can the country now be declared free of this latest outbreak?What is behind the escalating tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea over control of the Red Sea ...  Show more

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