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Reuters 2020-02-28 11:50:09
Nigeria has confirmed its first case of coronavirus, the health ministry said on Twitter on Friday, announcing the first case in sub-Saharan Africa, as infections spread rapidly worldwide. The minist...
-- 2020-02-25 17:13:56
Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak passed away on Tuesday at the age of 91. Mubarak, who served as Egypt's fourth president for almost 30 years from 1981 and stepped down after a popular revoluti...
-- 2020-02-22 10:41:51
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Saturday ordered an investigation into a violent crackdown by security forces on protesters in Khartoum. Hamdok said in a televised speech: “I decided...
-- 2020-02-18 13:00:43
At least 23 people died in a stampede as Nigerian refugees rushed to get food and clothes in a community centre just over the border in Niger on Monday, officials said. The refugees were queuing to g...
-- 2020-02-04 13:14:29
A total of 26 people were killed in recent attacks in Nigeria’s central Plateau State, local police said Monday. Up to 190 houses were damaged or destroyed following the attacks by unknown gunm...
Reuters 2020-02-04 11:19:30
Fourteen children were killed in a stampede as they rushed down a staircase at the end of classes at a primary school in western Kenya on Monday, officials said. At least 39 more pupils were badly hu...
-- 2020-02-02 13:53:01
At least 20 people have been killed and over a dozen injured in a stampede during a church service at a stadium in northern Tanzania, a government official said on Sunday. Hundreds of people packed a...
-- 2020-02-01 13:59:28
The US has announced it is expanding its curbs on immigration to include six more countries, including Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation. Citizens from Nigeria, Eritrea, Sudan, Tanzania, Kyrgyzs...
-- 2020-01-28 13:12:37
Two pilots were killed in a Sukhoi Su-30 aircraft crash on Monday night in Algeria's Oum El Bouaghi province, 450 km southeast of the capital Algiers, local media reported. The state run television s...
-- 2020-01-27 12:39:04
Clashes between Libya's UN-backed government forces and the east-based army in Abugrein town, some 140 km south of the city of Misrata, killed 24 troops and injured more than 100 from both parties. "...
Reuters 2020-01-27 12:32:02
About 20 soldiers were killed in a pre-dawn attack on an army camp in central Mali on Sunday (local time), the government said. The identity of the attackers was not immediately clear. In a statement...
-- 2020-01-18 13:11:01
At least five soldiers were killed in a roadside explosion on Friday in northern Burkina Faso's province of Soum, a security source said. The explosion occurred as an army patrol vehicle hit an impro...
-- 2020-01-18 12:26:37
Eastern Libya ports controlled by commander Khalifa Haftar, who is trying to seize the capital Tripoli, are shutting down oil exports, slashing national crude output by more than half and ramping up t...
-- 2020-01-16 11:22:44
Officials from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan say they have reached a preliminary agreement aimed at clearing the way for the filling and operation of a $5 billion dam project on the Nile River. The forei...
Reuters 2020-01-13 13:25:04
Three teachers were killed in Kenya near the country’s border with Somalia in a suspected attack by al Shabaab militants, a police report seen by Reuters said on Monday, in what would be the lat...
-- 2020-01-12 11:52:34
Libyan eastern forces loyal to commander Khalifa Haftar announced on Saturday a ceasefire in the western region, which includes the capital Tripoli, starting 00:01 am on Sunday (22:01 GMT) and the int...
Reuters 2020-01-08 21:54:06
Turkey and Russia on Wednesday called on all parties in Libya to stop hostilities and declare a ceasefire at midnight on January 12. The two countries made the statement after talks between president...
-- 2020-01-07 13:31:23
At least 30 people were killed in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno after an improvised explosive device detonated on a bridge, sources said on Monday. The bomb detonated at roughly 5:00 pm lo...
-- 2020-01-05 12:30:21
An airstrike hit a military academy in the Libyan capital Tripoli late on Saturday, killing 28 students and injuring 18 others. "Initial casualties indicate that 28 students of the military academy w...
Reuters 2020-01-05 11:41:31
Fourteen people were killed and 19 wounded when a bus carrying students ran over an improvised explosive device on Saturday in northern Burkina Faso, the government said. It was not immediately clear...
-- 2019-12-31 14:39:16
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced the appointment of Zainab Hawa Bangura of Sierra Leone as director-general of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON). "Bangura, a relentless a...
Reuters 2019-12-30 17:07:31
A Sudanese court sentenced 27 members of the national intelligence service to death on Monday over the killing of a teacher in detention in February during protests that led to the overthrow of former...
-- 2019-12-29 10:54:00
Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Saturday (local time) named a university professor and former diplomat as prime minister as he builds a new government to handle political unrest and...
-- 2019-12-28 17:03:35
At least 76 people, including many students, were reportedly killed in a truck bomb explosion at a busy security checkpoint in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday morning. It was one of the...
REUTERS 2019-12-28 14:31:25
An explosion at a busy checkpoint in Somalia's capital killed at least 13 people and injured dozens on Saturday, a local resident and a Reuters witness said, amid persistent insecurity in the Horn of...
-- 2019-12-25 12:23:35
Burkina Faso insurgents killed 35 mostly female civilians on Tuesday after attacking a military outpost in northern Soum Province, and about 87 militants and local security forces were killed in the c...
-- 2019-12-22 11:40:01
French forces have killed 33 militants in an operation in Mali, according to President Emmanuel Macron. Mr Macron made the announcement on a visit to Ivory Coast, where he reiterated France's commitm...
Reuters 2019-12-16 15:31:12
Suspected Islamist militiamen killed at least 22 people overnight in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said on Sunday, as the rebels kept up attacks on civilians despite government cla...
-- 2019-12-11 12:26:03
Somali security forces shot dead five Al Shabaab gunmen, who had killed three civilians and two soldiers during an attack on a hotel near the presidential residence in Mogadishu on Tuesday night, poli...
-- 2019-12-05 17:04:18
Scores of migrants who swam through rough Atlantic Ocean waters to safety from a capsized boat while 58 others drowned were receiving care Thursday in Mauritania after one of the deadliest disasters t...
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