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A former CDC official criticizes the agency over its latest reversal, this time in guidance on how the coronavirus is transmitted. Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images A former CDC official criticizes the agency over its latest reversal, this time in guidance on how the coronavirus is transmitted. Kevin…

Former ANC youth league leader and councillor Andile Lungisa has begun serving his two-year jail term on Thursday. Meanwhile, Lungisa has applied to the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal his sentence, after his applications to the lower courts failed. The NPA will oppose his application for bail, pending the outcome of the leave to…

Zimbabwe’s collapse is epitomised by the woeful state of its health system, with hospitals beset by medicine shortages and recurrent strikes by nurses and doctors over pay and working conditions.Funding cutbacks have left schools without essential teaching materials and demotivated staff, some of whom skip classes to work second jobs to try and make ends…

By Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporterRaleigh, N.C. — Gov. Roy Cooper is candidate Roy Cooper again, running for re-election after a four-year term marked by power struggles with the General Assembly's Republican majority. Early in his term, the state repealed House Bill 2, the notorious law that restricted transgender access to public bathrooms and blocked…

Tsitsi Dangarembga. Jemal Countess/WireImage/Getty Images A prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker arrested at recent protests accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on Tuesday of holding its people in a repressive "chokehold" as they endured an economic emergency.Tsitsi Dangarembga, whose latest book This Mournable Body has been nominated for a Booker Prize, was bundled into a police truck…