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[Independent (Kampala)] Dar es Salaam -- President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda and Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania have endorsed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at reshaping East Africa's energy economy by shifting the region's focus from crude oil exports to building an integrated regional energy and industrial hub.

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[New Times] President Paul Kagame on Thursday, July 30, received a bipartisan United States Congressional delegation led by Representative Brett Guthrie, Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

[Premium Times] They [governors] are taking four to five times their money. Nobody is borrowing money to pay salaries now," the president added.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Immediate former Chief Justice David Maraga has dismissed President William Ruto's proposed national dialogue on Kenya's post-Vision 2030 future as a distraction from what he termed the administration's failures on corruption, the cost of living and constitutionalism.

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[UN News] For Tanatswa Amanda Chikaura, mental health advocacy began with a personal loss: while studying psychology at the University of Zimbabwe, she learned that a fellow student had died by suicide.

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[New Light] Kapchorwa: At least 23 pupils of King David Junior School Ndejje are feared dead following a road accident in Kapchorwa District on Thursday evening, as the pupils travelled for a field trip whose exact destination remained unclear at the time of the crash.

[New Zimbabwe] South Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has condemned the enactment of Zimbabwe's Constitutional Amendment Act No.3, accusing ZANU PF of prioritising its grip on power over the welfare of citizens and betraying the ethos of the liberation struggle.

[ISS] Neither Cameroon nor the DRC is doing enough to improve oversight and management of unregulated gold mining.

[New Times] Rwanda's ambition to build its first small modular reactor (SMR) is moving closer to reality, but one major question remains unanswered: who will pay for it?

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- Four Ugandans have filed a landmark lawsuit in the UK High Court seeking to stop the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) from becoming operational.

[The Conversation Africa] South Sudan's independence from Sudan in 2011 was meant to close the chapter on one of Africa's longest civil wars: the north-south war that preceded it. Formally, it did. But independence did not end the deeper struggles over power, revenue and coercion inside the newly independent state.

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[Premium Times] The probe follows a petition by Nigeria's major media organisations alleging anti-competitive practices, unauthorised use of news content and unfair commercial treatment by global technology companies.

[This Day] Abuja -- President Bola Tinubu on Monday affirmed his governnent's firm resolve to deploy emerging technologies to crush contemporary security threats and protect the lives all Nigerians.

[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwe was plunged into darkness on Monday evening after a technical fault on the national electricity grid triggered a nationwide power outage.

[GroundUp] Factories in KwaZulu-Natal are closing as xenophobia reaches fever pitch