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Lesotho MPs demand 100% salary increase – report
Members of the Lesotho Parliament would require a 100% salary increase while they are already among the best paid in the landlocked African country.
According to the private Lesotho Times Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has tasked Finance Minister Moeketsi Majoro to explore a "revised salary structure" for parliamentarians.
If legislators' claims are met, their monthly salary will double to $ 5,344, while ordinary Basotho workers earn $ 144 a month, the report says.
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Thousands gather as Tshisekedi returns to launch DRC presidential candidacy
Tens of thousands of supporters welcomed Congolese opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi on his return to Kinshasa on Tuesday to launch his campaign to replace President Joseph Kabila in next month's elections.
"We will go with the people and we will win," said Tshisekedi, the son of the late Etienne Tshisekedi, 55, who for decades has been the face of opposition from the DRC.
"We will take 60% of the votes," he said.
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In eastern DRC, 19 people die of Ebola in five days
The deadly Ebola outbreak that has ravaged the Democratic Republic of Congo for nearly four months has left 19 people dead in just five days, the health ministry said.
The outbreak, which began on August 1, has already killed 241 people, the ministry said Tuesday in a statement.
"There were 241 deaths," the ministry said in updated information as of November 26, indicating that there had been a total of 421 cases – 374 confirmed and 47 probable.
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The two former Malagasy presidents will participate in the second round of elections: the Court
Two former Malagasy presidents, Andry Rajoelina and Marc Ravalomanana, will meet in a second round next month to decide who will lead the great island nation of the Indian Ocean, the country's supreme court said on Wednesday.
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Ali Bongo, sick in Gabon, will fly to Rabat Wednesday, says his wife
Ali Bongo of Gabon, who spent a month in treatment in a Saudi hospital, will be transferred Wednesday to Rabat to continue his recovery, said Tuesday his wife.
Bongo, 59, was rushed to Riyadh hospital on October 24, after falling ill at an economic forum.
After a long period of silence, the Gabonese presidency finally admitted that he was "seriously ill" and had undergone surgery, while insisting that he was healing.
"Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 28 … Ali Bongo Ondimba, my husband, will leave King Faisal Hospital in Riyadh," wrote his French wife, Sylvia, on Facebook.
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