Power failure cuts short Lowassa’s Tunduma rally

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And other surprising things from Ghana's power cuts

It’s a weekend. You had a late breakfast after which you headed to the shopping centre to get copies of your favourite newspapers. It’s not midday yet, but since this is a Saturday, you consider it okay to make a stopover at your most convenient local grocery and read your papers there over a beer or two.

In many Bantu languages, the sounds “l” and “r” are allophonic, that is to say, they bear the same linguistic value. Replacing one with the other doesn’t introduce a new meaning to the word involved. A communicator thus influenced will speak of “ugolo” and “ugoro”

>The drive for good governance has gained prominence under Tanzania’s multi-party political dispensation that is a little over 20 years now. Coupled with today’s freer media, which is a far cry from the restrictions that defined the single-party era, the demand for better governance is now bolder and louder.

Power cuts are hurting Zambia's businesses

Much of Zambia has been plunged into darkness by a power cut, the country's Energy Minister Dora Siliya says.

The one man who deals with angry Johannesburg during power cuts

Chadema presidential candidate Edward Lowassa has promised to make the Tunduma border a 24-hour business hub.