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Landslide kills 30 in Chad goldmine

Landslide kills 30 in Chad goldmine

-- 2019-09-26 20:37:20

A landslide at an illegal gold mine in Chad has killed about 30 people, a government minister said on Thursday, reports Reuters. The mine in the Tibesti region near the Libyan border collapsed early...

Eight infants dead in Algeria hospital fire

Eight infants dead in Algeria hospital fire

-- 2019-09-24 14:57:55

Eight infants died in a fire in a hospital in Algeria’s El Oued early on Tuesday the fire service was quoted as saying on state media without giving any further details. The government has open...

School collapses in Kenya, killing seven children

School collapses in Kenya, killing seven children

-- 2019-09-23 14:35:03

A school collapsed in Kenya's capital on Monday morning, and officials said at least seven children were killed. Parents wailed at the scene of The Precious Talent Top School in Nairobi. Hundreds of...

Rare protests in Egypt after online call for dissent

Rare protests in Egypt after online call for dissent

-- 2019-09-21 14:49:04

Hundreds protested in central Cairo and several other Egyptian cities late on Friday against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, responding to an online call for a demonstration against government corrupt...

Zimbabwe doctor is found alive after alleged abduction

Zimbabwe doctor is found alive after alleged abduction

-- 2019-09-20 19:04:42

A Zimbabwean doctor whose alleged abduction led to days of protests has been freed, activists announced on Friday, as the government asserted he had simply been missing. The disappearance had raised...

Fire at Liberia Islamic school kills 27 children

Fire at Liberia Islamic school kills 27 children

Reuters 2019-09-19 11:01:29

A fire at an Islamic school in Liberia has killed at least 27 children, police said on Wednesday. “The kids were learning the Koran when the fire broke out,” police spokesman Moses Carter...

Dozens feared dead in DR Congo boat accident

Dozens feared dead in DR Congo boat accident

-- 2019-09-16 12:24:48

At least 34 people are feared drowned after a boat sank on the River Congo. Police said 76 passengers were rescued from the whaleboat - a flat-bottomed vessel used to transport people on lakes and ri...

Voting begins in Tunisian presidential poll

Voting begins in Tunisian presidential poll

-- 2019-09-15 13:59:03

Tunisians began casting votes in an unpredictable presidential election on Sunday where there is no overwhelming front-runner, with the young democracy’s economic ills dominating the agenda. Po...

3.9m in Mali need humanitarian aid: UN

3.9m in Mali need humanitarian aid: UN

Xinhua 2019-09-14 14:12:40

A surge in inter-communal violence is worsening humanitarian conditions in Mali and 3.9 million people there need humanitarian assistance, spokesman for United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio G...

Up to 50 dead in Congo train derailment

Up to 50 dead in Congo train derailment

Reuters 2019-09-13 13:21:17

Up to 50 people were killed when a cargo train derailed in Congo’s southeastern province of Tanganyika in the early hours of Thursday, government officials said, though reports on casualties dif...

Nigeria to evacuate citizens from S Africa after xenophobic attacks

Nigeria to evacuate citizens from S Africa after xenophobic attacks

-- 2019-09-10 12:39:10

Nigeria will evacuate hundreds of its citizens from South Africa following a string of xenophobic attacks, a government official told CNN on Monday. Flights carrying the returnees will start leaving...

Mugabe's family pushes back against government burial plan

Mugabe's family pushes back against government burial plan

Reuters 2019-09-09 13:09:40

The family of Zimbabwe founder Robert Mugabe is pushing back against the government’s plan to bury him at the National Heroes Acre monument in Harare and wants him to be buried in his home villa...

Zimbabwe's Mugabe: From liberator to oppressor

Zimbabwe's Mugabe: From liberator to oppressor

Reuters 2019-09-06 13:58:36

Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe was feted as an African liberation hero and champion of racial reconciliation when he first came to power in a nation divided by nearly a century of white colonial rule....

Zimbabwe's former president Mugabe dies

Zimbabwe's former president Mugabe dies

-- 2019-09-06 12:03:47

Robert Mugabe, the guerrilla leader who led Zimbabwe to independence in 1980, died aged 95 on Friday, two years after the army brought an ignominious end to almost four decades of his iron-fisted rule...

Youngest son of Mohamed Morsi dies

Youngest son of Mohamed Morsi dies

-- 2019-09-05 13:52:43

The youngest son of Egypt’s former president, Mohamed M0rsi, died on Wednesday from a heart attack, his brother and a family lawyer told Reuters news agency, 2-1/2 months after his father’...

Bomb explodes under bus in Mali, killing 14

Bomb explodes under bus in Mali, killing 14

-- 2019-09-04 13:46:12

A makeshift bomb exploded under a passenger bus traveling in the violence-plagued central Mali region of Mopti on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 24, the security minister said. The...

UN chief visits Congo Ebola region, pledges solidarity

UN chief visits Congo Ebola region, pledges solidarity

-- 2019-09-02 14:16:35

The United Nations secretary general visited Congo’s eastern city of Beni on Sunday, pledging solidarity as the region faces an Ebola outbreak that has killed nearly 2,000 people in a year and o...

62 dead in Sudan floods

62 dead in Sudan floods

-- 2019-08-26 12:03:36

Torrential rain and floods have killed 62 people in Sudan, according to the official state news agency. The country has been battered by heavy rains since early July, affecting almost 200,000 people...

Violence forces 1.9m children out of school in Africa: UN

Violence forces 1.9m children out of school in Africa: UN

Xinhua 2019-08-24 15:48:00

More than 1.9 million children across a swath of eight West and Central African countries have been forced out of their schools by violence, a UN spokeswoman said on Friday. Eri Kaneko, associate spo...

Militants kill 10 Burkina Faso soldiers

Militants kill 10 Burkina Faso soldiers

-- 2019-08-20 12:59:04

Unidentified militants killed at least 10 soldiers and wounded many others in an attack on a military unit in northern Burkina Faso on Monday, the army said. Burkina Faso has been overrun by Islamist...

20 al-Shabab militants killed in Somalia

20 al-Shabab militants killed in Somalia

-- 2019-08-19 17:31:33

Somali special forces (Danab) killed 20 al-Shabab militants in counter-offensive in southern Somali region of Lower Shabelle on Sunday night, officials said on Monday. Odawa Yusuf Rage, the commander...

Fuel truck explosion leaves 10 dead in Uganda

Fuel truck explosion leaves 10 dead in Uganda

-- 2019-08-19 11:53:18

At least 10 people were killed when a fuel truck exploded in flames after losing control and ramming into three cars in western Uganda on Sunday, police said in a statement. “So far, 9 burnt bo...

Car bomb kills three UN staff in Libya

Car bomb kills three UN staff in Libya

-- 2019-08-11 11:28:24

A bomb-laden vehicle exploded Saturday outside a shopping mall in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, killing at least three UN staff members, a spokesman for the United Nations secretary-general said....

UN calls for humanitarian truce in Libya

UN calls for humanitarian truce in Libya

Xinhua 2019-08-10 18:57:58

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Thursday called for a humanitarian truce between the rival parties in Libya, as the armed conflict in the capital Tripoli continues between the...

Tanzania tanker blast kills at least 60

Tanzania tanker blast kills at least 60

-- 2019-08-10 17:18:11

A fuel tanker exploded in eastern Tanzania on Saturday killing at least 60 people as flames ripped through a crowd that had gathered to siphon petrol from it. Video clips circulating on social media...

Egypt security forces kill 17 militants

Egypt security forces kill 17 militants

-- 2019-08-09 11:25:44

Security forces killed at least 17 suspected militants in raids in Cairo and in another province, Egypt officials said Thursday, four days after a car filled with explosives wrecked outside the county...

Kenyan lawmaker, her baby ousted from parliament session

Kenyan lawmaker, her baby ousted from parliament session

-- 2019-08-08 15:25:13

Some Kenyan lawmakers are protesting a decision by the temporary speaker of parliament's lower house to eject their colleague who was holding her young child during a session of the legislature. Zule...

Over five million Zimbabweans ‘facing food crisis’

Over five million Zimbabweans ‘facing food crisis’

-- 2019-08-07 11:50:13

The UN has stepped up its emergency appeal for Zimbabwe, warning that more than five million people - a third of the population - are in need of aid. The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a $33...

19 die in Cairo car explosion

19 die in Cairo car explosion

-- 2019-08-05 10:56:54

A multiple-car crash set off an explosion that ignited a fire at Egypt's main cancer hospital and caused 19 deaths, the government said. The health ministry said 30 others were injured by the crash n...

Tanzania plane crash kills two South African citizens

Tanzania plane crash kills two South African citizens

-- 2019-08-04 12:28:38

A light plane crashed in western Tanzania on Saturday, killing two South Africans, officials said late on Saturday. The plane with registration ZU-TAF-19 is a four-seater Sling plane from South Afric...