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Africa in Focus with Advocate Sipho Mantula, Researcher: Thabo Mbeki African School of Public & International Affairs: Unisa
Senegal- United Nations Secretary General Post
Senegal’s former president Macky Sall is pulling out of the race to lead the United Nations.
Saturday's announcement comes one day after an informal straw poll by UN Security Council members saw all seven candidates receive at least one veto.
In a statement on social media, Sall said he “hoped to contribute now to the emergence of a consensus candidate.”
Egypt- Ghana
Gamal Gorkeh Nkrumah, the eldest son of Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, has reportedly died last week in Cairo.
Gamal was a journalist and political…
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