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Despites concerns from environmental organisations, Kenyan president William Ruto announced on Sunday he will lift a logging ban which has been in place since 2018. Speaking at a church service in Molo, a town around 200km north-west of…

Tanzania has lifted the long-standing ban on night-time upcountry bus travel. The decision was announced by Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa in parliament, who highlighted that the ban, initially imposed in the 1990s, was a response to the…

Sudanese leading general lifted, a state of emergency that was imposed in the country following the October coup. The country experienced over the weekend yet another day of protest against the military coup. The ruling military…

The Zimbabwean government has welcomed the decision of the European Union (EU) to lift travel and financial sanctions imposed on Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, former First Lady Grace Mugabe and military chief Valerio Sibanda. The…

In Congo-Brazzaville, following the lifting of the curfew for the night of 24th December and New Year's Eve and for the first time since March 2020 many business owners were allowed to work without any time limits. In the economic…

Tanzania says it would allow pregnant students and teenaged mothers to continue with their studies, reversing a heavily-criticized policy instituted by its late autocratic leader John Magufuli. In 2017, the East African country began…

Burkina Faso has lifted a ban on the Norwegian Refugee Council from working in camps for displaced people in the jihadist-hit north after accusing the body of discrediting the government. It was the first time an international NGO has…