VIDEO: Mandela walks free: 25 years on

David Bainbridge, the International Director of the charity Tearfund, discusses the desperate situation facing people in war-torn South Sudan.

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Isles marks 50 years of free education
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IN an ongoing effort to minimize unemployment burden in the Islands, Zanzibar will have more vocational training centres, where youth will learn various skills suitable for self employment. In a speech at the “Free education” celebrations held at Amani ...

How Mandela survived 27 years in prison

>Over the last decade, Tanzania’s media space has opened up considerably. From mostly government and ruling party run media houses, the country has evolved to possess one of the most vibrant and diverse media environments on the continent. This shift explains why Freedom House, the US based watchdog organisation on issues around freedom, describes the country’s press status as being “partly free.”

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Mramba, Yona jailed three years for office abuse; Mgonja set free
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TEARS and disbelief reigned at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court in Dar es Salaam on Monday morning, as two former cabinet ministers bid goodbye to their family members whom they will hardly interact with - at least for the next three years.
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Nomsa Maseko reports on the Cape Town residents still fighting to get their land back, 20 years after the end of apartheid.

In just three months in 1994, some six million Rwandans were displaced and more than 800,000 were killed.

Today marks 50 years since Kenya gained independence from Great Britain.

Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste, who was freed on Sunday after more than a year in an Egyptian prison, has told the BBC's Andrew Harding he was not aware of the reason why he was set free.