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First death from highly-infectious Marburg virus recorded in West Africa

First death from highly-infectious Marburg virus recorded in West Africa

REUTERS 2021-08-10 18:54:24

Health authorities in West African country Guinea have confirmed one death from Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the World Health Organization said on Monday. It...

Attack in Burkina Faso kills at least 12 soldiers

Attack in Burkina Faso kills at least 12 soldiers

Reuters 2021-08-09 11:14:55

At least 12 soldiers were killed in an attack in northwestern Burkina Faso on Sunday and seven others are missing, three security sources said. There was no immediate comment from the army. The sourc...

Chibok schoolgirl reunites with parents seven years after abduction, governor says

Chibok schoolgirl reunites with parents seven years after abduction, governor says

-- 2021-08-08 11:35:50

One abducted girl from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been freed and reunited with her parents seven years after Boko Haram militants kidnapped her and more than 200 of her classmates, Borno state's...

Tigrayan forces take control of UN World Heritage Site in Ethiopia

Tigrayan forces take control of UN World Heritage Site in Ethiopia

-- 2021-08-06 16:34:19

Forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region have taken control of the town of Lalibela, whose famed rock-hewn churches are a United Nations World Heritage Site, and residents were fleeing, two eyewitnesses t...

Kidnappers in Nigeria demand ransom to release 80 schoolchildren

Kidnappers in Nigeria demand ransom to release 80 schoolchildren

REUTERS 2021-08-04 17:14:58

Kidnappers are demanding a ransom of one million naira each to release around 80 children snatched from a boarding school in northern Nigeria last month, according to a pastor involved in the negotiat...

Rescuers pull 394 migrants including Bangladeshis from dangerously overcrowded boat off Tunisia

Rescuers pull 394 migrants including Bangladeshis from dangerously overcrowded boat off Tunisia

-- 2021-08-01 16:52:52

Two humanitarian rescue ships pulled 394 migrants from a dangerously overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean overnight on Sunday in an operation lasting about six hours, a Reuters witness said....

Kidnappers in Nigeria free 28 schoolchildren, another 81 still held

Kidnappers in Nigeria free 28 schoolchildren, another 81 still held

Reuters 2021-07-26 10:39:47

Kidnappers who raided a boarding school in northern Nigeria earlier this month released 28 children on Sunday but another 81 remain in captivity, according to a pastor involved in the negotiations for...

Tunisia's democracy in crisis as president ousts government

Tunisia's democracy in crisis as president ousts government

Reuters 2021-07-26 10:11:47

Tunisia faced its biggest crisis in a decade of democracy on Monday after President Kais Saied ousted the government and froze the activities of parliament, a move his foes labelled a coup that should...

Sierra Leone parliament repeals death penalty

Sierra Leone parliament repeals death penalty

REUTERS 2021-07-25 16:15:27

Sierra Leone's parliament voted unanimously on Friday to repeal the death penalty more than two decades after the West African country carried out its last execution. Sierra Leone's President Julius...

100 Nigerian people freed after 42-day captivity

100 Nigerian people freed after 42-day captivity

REUTERS 2021-07-21 17:34:23

Police and government authorities have secured the release of 100 people, including women, children and nursing mothers, who were kidnapped from their village in north-western Nigeria over a month ago...

South Africa faces worst violence in years, dozens reported killed

South Africa faces worst violence in years, dozens reported killed

REUTERS 2021-07-13 21:04:40

Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or burned shopping malls in South Africa on Tuesday, with dozens reported killed as grievances unleashed by the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma boiled o...

South Africa deploys army to quell violence linked to Zuma jailing

South Africa deploys army to quell violence linked to Zuma jailing

Reuters 2021-07-13 11:40:41

South Africa deployed soldiers on Monday to quell violence that erupted following the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma, after days of riots left at least six people dead. Police said disturbanc...

Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed wins election with huge majority

Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed wins election with huge majority

-- 2021-07-11 10:25:59

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has won the country's delayed elections with an overwhelming majority, the election board said on Saturday. The board said Mr Abiy's Prosperity Party won 410 o...

Haiti seeks military assistance from UN, US for stabilisation

Haiti seeks military assistance from UN, US for stabilisation

-- 2021-07-10 17:10:07

Haiti has sought military assistance from the United Nations and the United States to protect its key infrastructure after the assassination of its President Jovenel Moise by suspected foreign mercena...

Former South African president Jacob Zuma hands himself over to police

Former South African president Jacob Zuma hands himself over to police

Reuters 2021-07-08 10:54:18

South African former President Jacob Zuma turned himself in to police on Wednesday to begin 15 months in jail for contempt of court, the culmination of a long legal drama seen as a test of the post-ap...

Haiti president shot dead

Haiti president shot dead

Reuters 2021-07-07 17:29:01

Haitian President Jovenel Moise was shot dead by unidentified attackers in his private residence overnight in an "inhuman and barbaric act" and his wife was injured, Interim Prime Minister Claude Jose...

Car crash kills 32 in southern Mozambique

Car crash kills 32 in southern Mozambique

XINHUA 2021-07-04 21:38:50

At least 32 people were killed and dozens more were injured in a road accident on Saturday night in Maputo Province, southern Mozambique, Radio Mozambique (RM) reported on Sunday. The crash, involvin...

At least 43 drown as boat carrying migrants, including Bangladeshis, sinks off Tunisia

At least 43 drown as boat carrying migrants, including Bangladeshis, sinks off Tunisia

-- 2021-07-03 20:46:56

At least 43 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as the travellers, including Bangladeshis, tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, while another 84 were rescued, the Tunisian Red...

At least 43 migrants drown in shipwreck off Tunisia

At least 43 migrants drown in shipwreck off Tunisia

REUTERS 2021-07-03 18:25:55

At least 43 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, while another 84 were rescued, the Tunisian Red Crescent told Reuters on Saturday....

10 killed in overnight attack on eastern Congo city of Beni

10 killed in overnight attack on eastern Congo city of Beni

Reuters 2021-07-01 18:09:45

At least 10 people were killed overnight in a raid on the city of Beni in eastern Congo, witnesses said, and a civil society group and a monitoring body said Islamist militants were suspected of being...

Ethiopia declares ceasefire in Tigray region as rebels take control of capital

Ethiopia declares ceasefire in Tigray region as rebels take control of capital

-- 2021-06-29 10:12:45

Ethiopia's government has declared a ceasefire in its war-torn Tigray region, as rebel fighters claim control of the regional capital Mekelle. Residents reported scenes of jubilation with thousan...

Al Shabaab attack kills 30 in Somalia, security official says

Al Shabaab attack kills 30 in Somalia, security official says

-- 2021-06-28 12:33:00

An estimated 30 people died on Sunday when Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab group launched an attack in a town in the country's semi-autonomous state of Galmudug, a security official said. The ins...

Thirteen peacekeepers wounded in Mali militant attacks

Thirteen peacekeepers wounded in Mali militant attacks

REUTERS 2021-06-26 13:18:40

Thirteen UN peacekeepers, 12 Germans and one Belgian, were wounded in northern Mali on Friday by a car bomb, the UN mission said, while Mali's army said six of its soldiers were killed in a separate a...

South Africans without internet miss out on Covid vaccines

South Africans without internet miss out on Covid vaccines

Thomson Reuters Foundation 2021-06-22 14:10:23

When Esther Dhlamini went to collect her pension in Johannesburg's Soweto township, she was surprised to find a local bishop on hand to soothe her fears about Covid-19 vaccination and register her for...

Ethiopians vote in what government bills as first free election

Ethiopians vote in what government bills as first free election

Reuters 2021-06-21 13:54:36

Ethiopians voted on Monday in national and regional elections that the prime minister has billed as proof of his commitment to democracy after decades of repressive rule in Africa's second-most populo...

Gunmen abduct over 80 students killing police officer in Nigeria

Gunmen abduct over 80 students killing police officer in Nigeria

REUTERS 2021-06-18 20:09:46

Gunmen killed a police officer and kidnapped at least 80 students and five teachers from a school in the Nigerian state of Kebbi, police, residents and a teacher said. The attack is the third mass ki...

Zambia's first president Kaunda passes away

Zambia's first president Kaunda passes away

-- 2021-06-18 12:37:56

Zambia's first President Kenneth Kaunda has died at the age of 97, the Zambian government announced on Thursday. Secretary to the Cabinet Simon Miti said on Thursday that Kaunda died at a military ho...

18 killed in Nigeria road crash

18 killed in Nigeria road crash

-- 2021-06-10 12:57:20

Eighteen people were killed in a road crash involving two commercial buses in Nigeria's northern state of Jigawa on Wednesday, the police said. Eighteen people were killed on the spot as the two buse...

Nigeria's Boko Haram leader is dead, rival militant group says

Nigeria's Boko Haram leader is dead, rival militant group says

Reuters 2021-06-07 15:24:16

The Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) militant group said in an audio recording heard by Reuters on Sunday that Abubakar Shekau, leader of rival Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram,...

Gunmen kill 88 people in Nigeria

Gunmen kill 88 people in Nigeria

-- 2021-06-06 12:47:02

At least 88 people were killed and scores of others wounded following attacks by bandits in Nigeria's northwestern state of Kebbi, local police confirmed on Saturday. The bandits unleashed terror on...