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-- 2018-11-05 17:58:02
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki says Eritrea and Ethiopia have built trust since signing a peace deal in July, but need to iron out further elements of their ties to make their cooperation sustai...
-- 2018-11-03 13:57:14
At least seven people were killed and 12 others wounded in an attack on Coptic Christians near a monastery in the southern province of Minya in Egypt on Friday, an archbishop said. The injured have b...
-- 2018-11-02 14:31:58
Amnesty International is urging the Sudanese government to halt what it describes as "relentless harassment, intimidation and censorship of journalists." The rights group released a report early on F...
-- 2018-11-01 13:03:18
A court in Malawi has halted work on a statue of Mahatma Gandhi after critics accused him of using racial slurs. "Being black people ourselves, such remarks have invited a sense of loathing and detes...
-- 2018-10-31 16:03:25
The World Bank (WB) has approved $1.2 billion in grants and loans, a $600 million grant and a $600 million loan, to Ethiopia, according to a WB website statement. The statement posted on its websit...
-- 2018-10-29 18:01:09
Kenyans have celebrated on Twitter after Kenya Airways inaugural direct flight from Nairobi to New York landed. People were tracking its progress across the Atlantic Ocean through the night, says BBC...
-- 2018-10-28 11:54:00
The United Nations mission in Mali says armed men attacked a UN camp outside of Timbuktu killing at least two peacekeepers and wounding at least a dozen others. UN Mali mission spokeswoman Myriam Des...
-- 2018-10-27 14:21:03
Investment commitments of almost 290 billion rand ($20 billion) into the South African economy were made at an investment conference on Friday, President Cyril Ramaphosa said. “This is going to...
-- 2018-10-26 14:57:01
Glencore Plc on Friday reported a 12 per cent rise in copper production so far this year, while cobalt production rose 44 per cent, boosted by the restart of Katanga’s processing operations in t...
-- 2018-10-25 17:10:54
Ethiopia’s parliament has approved senior diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde as the country’s first female president, proceedings on state television showed, cementing another shift in the country&...
-- 2018-10-24 16:53:49
The suspicion of a third wife was planted in Irene Atenyo's mind when her husband could not account for his most recent pay. When she confronted him, he beat her "like an animal" and briefly kicked h...
-- 2018-10-24 13:34:09
Fighting between clans in Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland region has killed more than 50 people, a witness at the scene and an official in neighbouring Puntland said on Tuesday. “There has...
-- 2018-10-22 14:40:38
Unidentified gunmen killed at least 14 people, including two health workers, on Saturday in an area of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where militia violence has hampered efforts to contain an Eb...
-- 2018-10-21 11:14:07
Sectarian violence sparked by a spat at a market has left 55 people dead in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Muslim and Christian youths reportedly clashed after...
-- 2018-10-20 12:47:36
Africa’s youngest billionaire, snatched a week ago off the street outside a luxury hotel in Tanzania, has returned back home safely, the family company that he runs said on Saturday. Mohammed D...
-- 2018-10-19 13:19:55
Floods following heavy rains from Wednesday evening to Thursday in several provinces of Tunisia caused five dead and two missing, Tunisia's interior ministry said. The heavy rains caused significant...
-- 2018-10-18 13:42:57
The Democratic Republic of Congo has signed a $14 billion (£10 billion) deal for what is billed as the world's largest hydro-electric project with a consortium of Chinese and Spanish companies....
Reuters 2018-10-17 13:27:25
A recent US airstrike in Somalia killed about 60 al Shabaab militants in the largest strike against the group in nearly a year, the US military said on Tuesday. In a statement, the US military said a...
-- 2018-10-16 15:33:37
A medical aid worker held hostage in Nigeria since March was killed by Islamist militants after their deadline expired, the government said. Three aid workers, Hauwa Mohammed Liman, Alice Loksha and...
-- 2018-10-14 15:51:36
At least 16 people have been killed and 50 others wounded after two suicide bombers attacked a restaurant and a hotel in the town of Baidoa in Somalia, police and witnesses said. A man wearing an exp...
-- 2018-10-13 15:36:07
Sixteen people were killed after a fire broke out on an oil pipeline in the southeast of Nigeria, a spokesman for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation told media. The state oil company said th...
-- 2018-10-12 12:33:30
At least 31 people were killed when a landslide rolled down the slopes of Mt. Elgon in eastern Uganda, wrecking homes and burying animals, a government official briefed media on Friday. Martin Owor,...
-- 2018-10-11 15:44:05
The man said to be Africa's youngest billionaire has been kidnapped by masked gunmen in Tanzania's main city Dar es Salaam, police say. Mohammed Dewji, 43, was abducted outside a swanky hotel gym whe...
-- 2018-10-10 13:18:32
At least 50 people have been killed after a bus travelling from the Kenyan capital Nairobi to Kisumu, in the west, veered off the road on Wednesday morning, police say. Many reportedly died when the...
-- 2018-10-08 13:29:33
South Africa’s Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene has asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to sack him after he admitted to visiting the home of the Gupta brothers, friends of scandal-plagued former lead...
-- 2018-10-07 12:55:08
Cameroonians head to the polls on Sunday in an election widely expected to extend the 36-year rule of President Paul Biya and confirm his place as one of Africa’s last multi-decade leaders. A v...
-- 2018-10-07 12:53:17
Former Nigerian minister Obiageli Ezekwesili, co-founder of a group to raise awareness about more than 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014, on Sunday announced that she will run for president ne...
-- 2018-10-06 19:26:08
Around 50 people died and another 100 suffered serious burns after a fuel tanker collided with a vehicle in Congo on Saturday. Deputy Governor of Kongo Central province, Atou Matubuana Nkuluki, said...
-- 2018-10-06 18:23:07
A large poster of President Paul Biya hangs like a street sign in Cameroon's western city of Bafoussam. "The force of experience," reads the poster in reference to President Biya's 36 years in power,...
-- 2018-10-06 15:26:25
Egypt used air force helicopters on Saturday to fight a fire which swept through palm plantations in the southwest of the country, threatening residential areas, state news agency MENA reported. The...
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