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Apr 30, 2019
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Film Director Singleton Is Dead

Renown African American film director John Singleton is dead at 51. He died on April 29, 2019 at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Hospital where he was on life support after suffering a stroke on April 17, 2019. John Singleton was the first African American to receive an Oscar nomination for best director. He received the nomination for the 1991 landmark movie Boyz n the Hood. The movie starred by Ice Cube and Cuba Gooding Jr portrayed real life of African American youths in communi

Apr 29, 2019
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Sudan's Ruling Military Council And Opposition Reach Agreement

Sudan's military ruling council and the opposition alliance on April 28, 2019 reached agreement on a way forward towards resolving the country's political crisis that culminated in ousting of former leader Omar al-Bashir. That was reported by various media. According to the reports, the ruling military council and the opposition alliance agreed to form a new ruling body that will be made up of members from both the military and the opposition. However, how many members each s

Apr 28, 2019
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Air Tanzania To Begin Commercial Use Of Its Boeing 787-8 One Year After Delivery

Air Tanzania alias Air Tanzania Company Limited has announced it will begin flights with its Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner jet from June 2019, reported some media on April 27, 2019. According to the reports, Air Tanzania will launch 4x weekly flights with its Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner from Dar es Salaam to Johannesburg from June 28, 2019; and 3x weekly flights with the passenger jetliner from Dar es Salaam to Mumbai from July 17, 2019. Flight tickets for the two routes are now on sal

Apr 25, 2019
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60 Dead In South Africa After Flooding And Mudslides

At least 60 people have died in South Africa after houses and other buildings collapsed in massive flooding and mudslides caused by heavy rains in the eastern coast of the country. That was reported by various media on April 25, 2019. Most affected is the city of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal province. ______________________ © 2015 - 2019 Africa Up To Date. All Rights Reserved

Apr 24, 2019
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Tanzania's Magufuli In Malawi

Africa | Malawi | Tanzania April 24, 2019 President John Magufuli of Tanzania, alias The Bulldozer, arrived in Malawi on April 24, 2019, for a two day official visit, reported by some African media. This is President Magufuli's only second foreign trip outside the East African Community since coming to power in late 2015. The other foreign trip he made outside the regional bloc was to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 2017. Even within the East African Communi

Apr 23, 2019
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Sri Lanka Church Massacre Retaliation For New Zealand Mosque Massacre

Sri Lanka deadly church attacks on Easter Sunday that have now claimed at least 321 people dead, were a retaliation by the Islamic terror group National Thowheed Jamath that unleashed the attacks, for the mosque attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15, 2019. That was said by Sri Lanka's minister of state defense, and reported by some media on April 23, 2019. In Christchurch, 50 people were killed after a terrorist belonging to a racist group called White Supremacist

Apr 23, 2019
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Congo Brazzaville To Export Its Iron Ore Instead Of Processing It Locally

While some African countries like South Africa, Botswana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo, etc. are now embarked fully fledged in processing locally their extracted raw mineral resources as way of gaining more revenues from the resources, creating employment, and generating their own capital assets, Congo Brazzaville to the contrary intends to export all its iron ore extracted from its massive iron ore deposits. The export plan was reported by some media on A

Apr 22, 2019
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Kim Kardashian Castigates Manipulation Of College Admission System By Celebrities

Kim Kardashian West has castigated alleged manipulation of US college admission system by some celebrities in order to get their unqualified kids into prestigious colleges and universities. That was reported by some media on April 22, 2019. Kim Kardashian, a beauty multi-millionaire and staunch social justice activist, who is currently studying part-time for a law degree, said such manipulation of the college admission system is not appropriate. She added, among other things,

Apr 22, 2019
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Ukraine's Elite Political Establishment Humiliated As Political Rookie Volodymyr Zelensky Wins P

Just like US President Donald Trump before him, political rookie and comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has also done it big time. Winning the second round of Ukraine's 2019 presidential election with a landslide victory, hence delivering a devastating blow to the country's elite political establishment. The election was held on April 21, 2019. As of 84% of the votes counted, Mr Zelensky had received 73.4% of the votes compared to 24.4% received by his rival and incumbent President

Apr 22, 2019
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Death Toll In Sri Lanka Church Massacre Rises To 359

Death toll in the Easter Sunday church attacks in Sri Lanka has risen dramatically to at least 359, reported media worldwide on April 24, 2019. The terrorist attacks involved bomb blasts in three churches, said to have been unleashed very systematically as suicide bombers detonated their bombs. Some luxury hotels, a handful of Muslim owned shops, and a mosque were also attacked, in what could have been just a way of bringing confusion by the attackers about their real motive

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