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A woman waits in a queue to be screened for COVID-19 at a testing centre in Soweto, South Africa, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Health experts in South Africa say the country is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants. Professor Marta Nunes, a researcher at Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto said that for about three weeks the country has seen increasing numbers of new cases and somewhat higher hospitalizations, but not increases in severe cases and deaths. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

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South Africa in new surge of COVID from versions of omicron
By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press
Sat,05/14/22-4:36AM , 160 Reads
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts.
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Freelance video journalist Amir Aman Kiyaro, who is accredited to The Associated Press and has been in detention since November 2021 without charges, poses for a photograph in Ethiopia on Oct. 17, 2021. An Ethiopian court on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 ordered journalist Amir Aman Kiyaro to be released on bail, after being imprisoned for four months without charges, while prosecutors determine whether or not to press charges against him. (AP Photo, File)

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Ethiopian court orders journalist to be released on bail
By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press
Tue,03/29/22-7:30AM , 204 Reads
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An Ethiopian court has ordered Ethiopian journalist Amir Aman Kiyaro to be released on bail after being imprisoned for four months without charges.
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Freelance video journalist Amir Aman Kiyaro, who is accredited to The Associated Press and has been in detention since November 2021 without charges, poses for a photograph in Ethiopia on Oct. 17, 2021. Ethiopia is being urged on Monday, March 28, 2022, to uphold its international commitments to the freedoms of expression and the press as two lawmakers in the U.S. Congress joined press freedom advocates in calling for the immediate release of Kiyaro. (AP Photo, File)

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Ethiopia urged to uphold press freedom and release reporter
By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press
Mon,03/28/22-8:30AM , 196 Reads
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Ethiopia is being urged to uphold its international commitments to the freedoms of expression and the press by releasing journalists it has imprisoned.
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Zandile Mafe appears in the magistrates court in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022 charged with two counts of arson, theft, housebreaking and contravention of the National Key Points Acts. The State has been granted a seven-day postponement in the case against Mafe after he was arrested in connection with the fire that's destroyed parts of Parliament. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

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Suspect in South Africa's Parliament fire appears in court
By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press
Tue,01/04/22-4:56AM , 170 Reads
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The man suspected of starting the fire that gutted South Africa's parliament buildings appeared in court Tuesday and will remain in custody pending a bail hearing.
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