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Kenya’s President William Ruto says he will withdraw a finance bill containing controversial tax hikes after deadly protests which saw parliament set ablaze on Tuesday. In an address to the nation, he said it was clear that Kenyans “want nothing” to do with the bill. “I concede,” he said, adding …

Several towns and cities in Ethiopia have held anti-Western rallies today. The rallies are believed to have been organized by local governments in support of the federal government’s latest offensive in the ongoing war in the Tigray region. Local government officials and their supporters, attracted hundreds of thousands of people …