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-- 2021-03-20 10:23:36
Weaving contemporary designs into a traditional West African fabric, Nigerian Tsemaye Binitie is creating fashion he hopes can also bridge the gap between luxury and the everyday. His material of cho...
-- 2021-03-19 15:28:28
Samia Suluhu Hassan, 61, made history on Friday when she was sworn in as Tanzania’s first female president at State House, the government offices in Dar es Salaam, the country's largest city, re...
-- 2021-03-18 10:23:39
Tanzania's President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country's vice-president has announced. He died on Wednesday from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Samia Suluhu Hassan said...
-- 2021-03-17 11:13:34
At least 58 people have been killed in Niger after attacks near the border with Mali, the government has said. Gunmen opened fire on four vehicles that were bringing people back from a ma...
-- 2021-03-16 14:33:38
Aid agency Save the Children says Islamist militants are beheading children as young as 11 in Mozambique's northern province of Cabo Delgado. One mother told the agency she had to watch helplessly as...
REUTERS 2021-03-14 11:19:45
A video of some of the students kidnapped from a college in northwest Nigeria emerged on Saturday, showing them cowering on a forest floor as armed captors hit them with sticks. Thirty nine students...
-- 2021-03-13 17:26:17
Nine more students than originally thought are missing after gunmen stormed a forestry college in northwest Nigeria earlier this week, a government official in Nigeria's Kaduna state said on Saturday....
-- 2021-03-09 15:24:04
The death toll from a series of explosions in a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea has risen to 98, the health ministry said on Monday after volunteers searched the rubble for bodies. At least 61...
-- 2021-03-08 20:28:48
Child soldiers and other victims of convicted Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda should get a total of $30 million compensation, International Criminal Court judges ruled on Monday, in their high...
-- 2021-03-08 10:12:34
A series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 600 others on Sunday, authorities said. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said the exp...
-- 2021-03-06 12:42:49
At least 20 people were killed and 30 injured by a suicide car bomb just outside a restaurant near the port in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu late on Friday, an emergency services official said. T...
-- 2021-03-04 14:11:31
Venezuela sent gold to Mali in 2020 via Russian-owned planes to exchange for euros and US dollars that President Nicolas Maduro’s government used to remain afloat despite US sanctions, an opposi...
Xinhua 2021-03-03 17:44:21
Ten people were killed in a commercial plane crash in South Sudan's Jonglei state on Tuesday evening, a senior government official said Wednesday. Denay Jock Chagor, Jonglei state governor, confirmed...
-- 2021-03-03 16:31:41
The World Bank is preparing emergency financing to help about 30 African countries access COVID-19 vaccines, the global lender has said, as the continent scrambles to secure doses and start immunising...
REUTERS 2021-02-27 16:48:40
Gunmen in Nigeria on Saturday released 42 people, including 27 students, who were kidnapped from a boarding school last week in the north-central state of Niger, the state’s governor said. Th...
-- 2021-02-26 15:08:30
Scores of students were abducted by gunmen who stormed an all-girls school in Nigeria's northwestern state of Zamfara on early Friday, a local official said. Abubakar Dauran, Zamfara state commission...
-- 2021-02-24 18:17:27
Ghana has become the first country in the world to receive vaccines acquired through the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative with a delivery Wednesday of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine ma...
-- 2021-02-22 20:30:44
Italy’s ambassador to Democratic Republic of Congo, his bodyguard and a driver from the World Food Programme were killed on Monday when their convoy was attacked in the east of the country, Ital...
-- 2021-02-21 20:35:27
A small Nigerian air force passenger plane crashed just outside Abuja airport due to engine failure on Sunday, killing all seven people on board, the air force said. “First responders are at th...
Reuters 2021-02-19 10:18:25
Africa’s total reported death toll from Covid-19 was approaching 100,000 on Thursday, a fraction of those reported on other continents but rising fast as a second wave of infections overwhelms h...
-- 2021-02-18 12:33:19
Ugandan military and police officers beat and seriously injured journalists on Wednesday as they covered the delivery of a petition about human rights violations to a United Nations office, a rights g...
-- 2021-02-18 11:50:09
Unidentified gunmen killed a student in an overnight attack on a boarding school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger on Wednesday and kidnapped 42 people including 27 students, the state gove...
-- 2021-02-16 16:33:32
South Africa has asked the Serum Institute of India to take back the one million COVID-19 vaccine doses the company had sent in early February, a week after the country said it will put on hold use of...
-- 2021-02-15 10:01:59
Guinea declared a new Ebola outbreak on Sunday when tests came back positive for the virus after three people died and four fell ill in the southeast - the first resurgence of the disease there since...
-- 2021-02-11 11:01:12
For South African winemaker Vergenoegd Löw, the pandemic could have been a disaster but a bitter trade war between China and Australia has thrown the 325-year-old estate a lifeline. Bottles of i...
AP 2021-02-08 13:31:51
South Africa has suspended plans to inoculate its front-line health care workers with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after a small clinical trial suggested that it isn’t effective in preventing...
Reuters 2021-02-07 10:19:15
Egyptian authorities on Saturday released a journalist working for Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network who was held in pre-trial detention for more than four years, his brother and a lawyer to...
Reuters 2021-02-04 18:56:28
A former Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army was convicted on Thursday of dozens of crimes, including widespread rape, sexual enslavement, child abdu...
-- 2021-02-03 14:35:46
Thirty-two people were killed and five others injured in a road accident in the western Ugandan district of Kasese late Tuesday, a humanitarian agency has said. Irene Nakasiita, communications office...
-- 2021-02-02 21:11:34
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine and his party said on Tuesday that around 3,000 of his supporters had been detained or abducted by state agents since November, when protests flared over his arrest...
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