[wanabidii] How Africa Tweets: 10 very surprising trends and insights, including that Japanese and Korean are 'African' (M&G Africa)

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How Africa Tweets: 10 very surprising trends and insights, including that Japanese and Korean are 'African'   Twitter is driving real pan-Africanism - in absolute terms, Egypt actually tweeted more on #FeesMustFall than S. Africa, and Biafra was big in Gabon

Ethiopia to test 350 athletes in doping probe, as Kenya misses two deadlines to pass test law   IAAF president Sebastian Coe identified Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Belarus and Ukraine as problem countries because of weak anti-doping programmes

First, they became independent from Khartoum. Now over 55,000 South Sudanese flee to Sudan in three months   South Sudan became independent from Sudan in 2011, but two years later it descended into a brutal civil war that has killed tens of thousands

'Dynasty dilemma' as Zuma's ex-wife touted as possible South African president   'It may provide a bit of comfort, because I don't think that she would like to see the father of her children jailed'.

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