Hillary Orinde

Loves news. I love what I do. Southern Africa reporter @AFP. Ex Nairobi. Powered by milk 🥛 and chapati.

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Let me fall if I must fall. The person I become will catch me.

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Fitch Ratings has raised South Africa's credit rating, citing stronger fiscal discipline and lower-than-expected debt, marking its first upgrade of the country in more than two decades.

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@Sophie_Mokoena Which shop is this? 🫰

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Nigeria to repatriate more than 1,000 nationals from South Africa: FM

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Around 20 flights carrying equipment and staff have landed at a base in Kenya where the U.S. govt is continuing to build an Ebola quarantine facility despite protests and Kenyan court orders blocking it, according to flight data and officials. https://t.co/rARcysvHxt @Reuters

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@MwangiMaina_ Suluhu will be in Russia from June 3-5. Does Sevo leave 🇺🇬 for state visits?

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#JustIN Mozambique says five citizens killed in South Africa 'xenophobic attacks'

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It is still not clear how many members of Bafana Bafana's travelling party are yet to receive their visas.
@AFP

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According to state broadcaster @SABC_Sport, visas for at least 20 members of the squad are still being processed at the United States embassy in Johannesburg.

[SAFA.net @SAFA_net]

https://t.co/mStXyRcCw6

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@vee_wandera Mpira ya wazungu hio🤣😄

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@hotiiofficial My gym is 300 mtrs away, 5 mins walk. Worth it even on cold and rainy days.

[Katiba Institute @katibainstitute]

Orders granted!

The Court certified the application as urgent and granted interim conservatory orders restraining the Respondents from establishing, operationalising, approving, or facilitating any Ebola exposure, quarantine, isolation, or treatment facility in Kenya under any arrangement with the United States or any other foreign government or agency, pending the hearing of the application.

The Court further barred the Respondents from admitting into, transferring to, receiving within, or facilitating the entry into Kenya of any persons exposed to or infected with Ebola pursuant to the impugned arrangement.

The matter is scheduled for mention on 2nd June 2026 for further directions.

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La Haute cour constitutionnelle de Madagascar, plus haute instance judiciaire, a rejeté jeudi une demande de destitution du colonel Michael Randrianirina, au pouvoir depuis octobre, statuant qu'elle n'entrait pas dans le cadre légal.

[CGTN Africa @cgtnafrica]

Madagascar’s top court on Thursday rejected a bid by an opposition lawmaker to remove the country's president, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, ruling the challenge "inadmissible.” MP Antoine Rajerison had accused Randrianirina of treason for “serious and repeated violations of the constitution.” (📸: CFP)

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Jannik Sinner's 30-match winning run has come to an abrupt halt at the #FrenchOpen as the world number one succumbed to sweltering conditions in a five-set, second-round loss to Juan Manuel Cerundolo.

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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is heading to DRC. He has pledged to do "everything in my power" to help conquer the #Ebola outbreak.

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South Africa’s central bank raises borrowing costs for the first time in three years.

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South Africa hikes interest rates by 25 basis points.

New rates:
Repo: 7.00%
Prime: 10.50%

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A fire in a girl's school dormitory in Kenya has killed 16 people, mostly children, and 73 have been hospitalised, a police source has told @AFP. 💔

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Anti-immigrant protests are flaring again in South Africa, with vigilantes threatening to remove undocumented migrants by June 30, reviving a politically charged issue in a country battered by economic hardship.

Here are 5 things to know:

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#BREAKING India postpones Africa summit due to 'evolving health situation' after Ebola outbreak

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

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FINALLY!!! I have waited for this day.

[Premier League @premierleague]

🏆 ARSENAL ARE CHAMPIONS 🏆