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-- 2019-01-18 16:22:11
A doctor and a 16-year-old have been killed in Sudan amid demonstrations against President Omar al-Bashir. Both were shot in the head by state forces who were firing directly on demonstrators, a memb...
-- 2019-01-18 16:19:03
Algeria will hold a presidential election on April 18, the presidency said on Friday, although it did not say whether veteran leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika would stand as a candidate. Bouteflika, 81, h...
-- 2019-01-17 10:12:08
Kenyan security forces have killed all the Somali militants who stormed an upscale Nairobi hotel compound, taking at least 21 lives and forcing hundreds of people into terrifying escapes, the governme...
-- 2019-01-16 16:29:46
South Africa is aiming to finalise a long-term plan for the country’s energy sector next month. Energy Minister Jeff Radebe on Wednesday also said it will launch another round of renewable ener...
-- 2019-01-16 12:35:12
Kenya’s president said early on Wednesday that security forces had killed all four militants who stormed an upscale hotel complex in Nairobi the previous day, in an attack that killed at least 1...
-- 2019-01-15 22:10:23
Police and anti-terrorist forces have been fighting to regain control of a hotel and office complex in the centre of Nairobi after it was seized by gunmen on Tuesday. Witnesses in the Kenyan capital...
-- 2019-01-15 19:23:33
Explosions and gunfire are being reported around a hotel complex in Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Local television showed smoke rising from the Dusit hotel, in the Westland district of the city. Police ha...
-- 2019-01-15 17:41:10
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has acquitted Ivory Coast ex-President Laurent Gbagbo. He had been charged with crimes against humanity in connection with violence following a dis...
-- 2019-01-15 16:21:54
The world's oldest desert is to be blessed with one of the most listened-to songs - Africa by Toto. Namibian artist Max Siedentopf has set up a sound installation in the coastal Namib Desert to play...
-- 2019-01-14 17:20:09
Protesters barricaded roads and burned tires in a suburb of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare on Monday, two days after country's President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a massive fuel price hike in an e...
-- 2019-01-14 14:30:43
An influential African bloc has urged Democratic Republic of Congo to recount votes cast in its disorganised presidential election, raising pressure on Kinshasa to ensure the legitimacy of the next go...
-- 2019-01-11 14:35:28
A suitcase containing $150,000 (£117,600) in cash was stolen from ousted Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, a court in Harare has heard. Three suspected thieves have appeared in the court who...
-- 2019-01-10 11:53:25
Three Sudanese protesters were killed during demonstrations in the city of Omdurman on Wednesday, the state news agency SUNA said. Sudan’s second-largest city “witnessed riots and illegal...
-- 2019-01-08 14:33:25
Mozambique has indicted 18 citizens for their involvement in fraud involving $2 billion in loans to state-owned companies, the attorney general’s office (AGO) said on Monday, in a scandal that h...
-- 2019-01-07 19:52:39
Gabon foiled an attempted military coup on Monday, arresting several plotters just hours after they took over state radio in a bid to end 50 years of rule by President Ali Bongo’s family. Gover...
-- 2019-01-07 13:56:48
The military says it has seized power in oil-rich Gabon, where the ailing leader's family has ruled for 50 years. Soldiers in the west African country say they launched a coup "to restore democracy"....
-- 2019-01-07 11:10:05
Sudanese security authorities arrested several faculty members from Khartoum University on Sunday, two professors said, after they joined anti-government protests that have posed the most serious chal...
Reuters 2019-01-06 13:03:45
Preliminary results from Democratic Republic of Congo’s tumultuous presidential election will be delayed past Sunday’s deadline, the head of the election commission told Reuters. The comm...
Reuters 2019-01-06 11:43:37
An Egyptian police officer was killed on Saturday while attempting to defuse a bomb found near a church in an eastern Cairo suburb, state television reported, less than two days before Egypt’s C...
-- 2019-01-05 16:30:05
President Donald Trump said on Friday that US military personnel had deployed to Gabon in response to possible violent demonstrations in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a presidential election...
-- 2019-01-04 17:32:46
The US military says it has carried out an airstrike in southwestern Somalia that killed 10 members of the al-Shabab extremist group. The US Africa Command statement says the airstrike occurred Wedne...
-- 2019-01-02 14:04:41
Somalia’s government has ordered the top United Nations official in the country to leave, accusing him of interfering with national sovereignty days after he raised concerns about the actions of...
-- 2019-01-02 11:40:57
Armed men killed 37 Fulani civilians on Tuesday in central Mali, where ethnic violence cost hundreds of lives last year, the government said. Violence between Fulani and rival communities has compoun...
-- 2018-12-31 13:59:14
The main opposition camps in Congo’s presidential election on Sunday complained of widespread irregularities after a chaotic vote disrupted by long queues, broken voting machines and torrential...
-- 2018-12-30 15:32:02
People in the Democratic Republic of Congo are voting for a new president in an election delayed for more than two years. Close to 40 million people are eligible to vote for a replacement for Preside...
-- 2018-12-29 17:39:59
Police in Egypt have killed dozens of militants on Saturday during security raids on their hideouts, the interior ministry has said. The raids killed "40 terrorists" in Giza and North Sinai on Saturd...
-- 2018-12-29 12:42:52
Three Vietnamese tourists and an Egyptian guide were killed and at least 10 others injured when a roadside bomb blast hit their tour bus on Friday less than 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) from Egypt’s...
-- 2018-12-28 14:19:28
Morocco's navy coast guards have rescued 367 illegal migrants in the Mediterranean, the Moroccan army said. The rescued were onboard several boats, the army added. The majority of the rescued are f...
-- 2018-12-27 15:40:18
French judges have dropped a long-running investigation into the shooting down of a plane carrying the former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana. His death in 1994 was a trigger of the genocide....
-- 2018-12-26 13:41:25
The Arab League (AL) has condemned a terror attack on the Libyan Foreign Ministry in Tripoli that killed three and injured several others. Secretary General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit said this "heinous crime...
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