Manhunt underway in South Africa after 9 people killed in shooting, police say

At least nine people were killed in a shooting at a tavern outside the South African city of Johannesburg during Sunday’s early hours, police have said.

South Africa briefly held US government personnel on refugee assignment amid fraught relationship

The South African government briefly held, then released, two US government employees on assignment in South Africa as part of the Trump administration’s bid to admit Afrikaners to the United States, ...

Africa has thousands of languages. Can AI be trained on all of them?

For many African languages there are few written resources online that can be used to train AI. The African Next Voices project is trying to change that by recording underrepresented languages and ...
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African health officials hopeful mpox shots will start within days as WHO says outbreak is ‘not the new Covid’

African nations could begin vaccinations against mpox within days, according to the continent’s top public health agency, as a World Health Organization official said the spread of a deadlier strain ...
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Eighth CNN African Journalist Of The Year Competition Expands To Include Tourism Award

CNN and South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) announce launch of 2003 competition The launch of the eighth CNN African Journalist of the Year Competition, held in partnership with the SABC, ...

Africa’s first hypercar designer is going back to the future for his next model

Abdesslam Laraki made a name for himself as the man behind Africa’s first hypercar. His next car is inspired by a century-old Grand Prix winner.
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Two African countries say they need to kill elephants for food. Critics say it’s cruel and won’t work

Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August, Namibia ...
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CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards 2008 return to Ghana

CNN International and MultiChoice this week officially launched the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2008 Awards. The event returns to Ghana where it was founded in 1995. The winners of these ...
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Peter Murimi named CNN African Journalist of the Year

2004 CNN African Journalist of the year finalists. June 2004. Peter Murimi, working for Camerapix, Kenya, has been awarded the top prize at this year's CNN African Journalist of the Year Awards ...