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-- 2021-06-06 11:41:13
Armed men have killed over 132 people in an attack on a village in northern Burkina Faso, the country's worst attack in recent years, the government says. Homes and the local market were burned d...
REUTERS 2021-06-05 19:05:31
Armed assailants killed around 100 civilians in an overnight raid on a village in northern Burkina Faso, the government said on Saturday, as the region faces a worsening wave of jihadist violence. Th...
Reuters 2021-06-05 14:05:21
Nigeria said on Friday it had indefinitely suspended Twitter’s activities, two days after the social media giant removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional...
-- 2021-05-31 11:49:26
Nigerian officials say gunmen have kidnapped many students from an Islamic school in Nigeria - the latest in a series of such attacks on schools. Authorities in Niger state confirmed to the BBC t...
Reuters 2021-05-31 09:49:17
An Egyptian court on Saturday postponed a hearing in a compensation case filed by the Suez Canal authority against the owners of a container ship that blocked the canal for six days in March, giving t...
-- 2021-05-25 09:45:50
Military officers in Mali detained the president, prime minister and defence minister of the interim government on Monday, deepening political chaos just months after a military coup ousted the previo...
-- 2021-05-22 13:31:53
Nigeria's army chief, Lt-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, has been killed in a plane crash in the north-western state of Kaduna, officials say. The incident happened as the plane was trying to land in bad w...
-- 2021-05-01 21:00:39
An ancient Egyptian mummy once believed to be the remains of a male priest is actually the embalmed body of a woman in the third trimester of pregnancy, Polish scientists said on Friday. Marzena Ozar...
REUTERS 2021-04-26 21:16:45
Militants overrun an army base in northeastern Nigeria, killing more than 30 soldiers before pulling back in the face of air strikes, sources said. The attackers were believed to belong to the region...
-- 2021-04-20 17:37:04
Chad's President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the frontline of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner of a pres...
-- 2021-04-14 12:29:48
Almost one million people face severe hunger in northern Mozambique, where hundreds of thousands have fled Islamist militant attacks, the United Nations food agency said on Tuesday. Islamic State-lin...
Reuters 2021-04-14 08:26:35
Egyptians are celebrating the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in more normal conditions despite concerns about a rise in coronavirus cases and a possible third wave of infections. Last yea...
REUTERS 2021-04-13 18:45:28
Ten people have been killed and 34 injured in fighting between rival ethnic communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Goma, a spokesman for the provincial government sa...
-- 2021-04-10 18:54:42
At least two people were killed during violent protests on Friday against the United Nations peacekeeping mission in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said. Troops attached to the...
-- 2021-04-09 17:04:13
A senior leader of Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group has been convicted on “terror” charges and sentenced to life in prison, state media has reported. According to the state...
-- 2021-04-08 21:13:49
Twelve people, possibly foreigners, were found beheaded following an Islamic State-claimed attack on the northern Mozambique town of Palma, near natural gas projects worth $60 billion, a local police...
Reuters 2021-04-07 11:42:07
The Suez Canal Authority is considering expanding the southern section of the waterway where the container ship Ever Given became stranded, its chairman said on Tuesday. It is also looking into procu...
Reuters 2021-04-07 11:00:38
At least 80 dolphins and large numbers of fish have washed up dead on beaches near Ghana’s capital Accra since Friday, prompting investigations by the authorities. The cause of death was not ye...
-- 2021-04-06 17:09:19
More than 1,800 prisoners are on the run in southeast Nigeria after escaping when heavily armed gunmen attacked their prison using explosives and rocket-propelled grenades, the authorities said on Tue...
Reuters 2021-04-06 11:53:07
More than 1,800 inmates escaped from a Nigeria prison after an attack by gunmen carrying rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, explosives and rifles, according to a BBC report run by Reuters on Tue...
-- 2021-04-03 12:19:32
Al Shabaab militants attacked two military bases belonging to the Somali National Army early on Saturday morning, witnesses and the militants said. Al Shabaab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, is made up...
-- 2021-03-30 17:15:39
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday that the grounding of a huge container ship in the Suez Canal had reaffirmed the importance of the waterway. “We didn’t hope for so...
Reuters 2021-03-30 10:31:23
The stranding of a container ship in the Suez Canal has created disruptions in the global shipping industry that could take weeks and possibly months to clear, top container shipping lines said. Arou...
-- 2021-03-29 17:09:22
Dozens of people were killed in an attack on the northern Mozambique town of Palma this week, a spokesman for the country's defence and security forces said, including seven people when a convoy of ca...
Reuters 2021-03-29 11:58:41
The stranded container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week was almost fully re-floated on Monday and has restarted its engines, a shipping source with knowledge of the matter said, rais...
Reuters 2021-03-28 10:23:25
Efforts to dislodge a giant container ship blocking the Suez Canal have allowed its stern and rudder to move, but it remains unclear when the vessel will be refloated, the head of the canal authority...
-- 2021-03-27 11:22:44
Yacouba Sawadogo murmurs advice to his sons as they press a sapling into the red earth using a centuries-old technique that he has adapted to conjure a forest from Burkina Faso’s rain-starved so...
Reuters 2021-03-26 21:29:34
At least 32 people were killed and 91 injured when two trains collided in central Egypt on Friday, health ministry officials said. “Unknown individuals” triggered the emergency brakes on...
-- 2021-03-22 16:31:33
Armed men kill at least 22 civilians in Niger Armed men killed at least 22 civilians in southwestern Niger on Sunday, three sources said, less than a week after unidentified assailants killed 58 villa...
BBC 2021-03-20 16:27:13
Finland has been named the happiest place in the world for a fourth year running, in an annual UN-sponsored report. The World Happiness Report saw Denmark in second place, then Switzerland, Iceland a...
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