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Trust growing with Ethiopia, but more work needed: Afwerki

Trust growing with Ethiopia, but more work needed: Afwerki

-- 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...

Seven die in attack on minibus near Egypt Coptic monastery

Seven die in attack on minibus near Egypt Coptic monastery

-- 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...

Amnesty urges Sudan to stop crackdown on journalists

Amnesty urges Sudan to stop crackdown on journalists

-- 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...

Malawi court halts work on Gandhi statue

Malawi court halts work on Gandhi statue

-- 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...

WB approves $1.2b in grants, loans to Ethiopia

WB approves $1.2b in grants, loans to Ethiopia

-- 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...

First Nairobi-New York direct flight lands

First Nairobi-New York direct flight lands

-- 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...

Armed men kill two UN peacekeepers in Mali, 12 wounded

Armed men kill two UN peacekeepers in Mali, 12 wounded

-- 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...

SA gets $20 billion of investment pledges at confce: Ramaphosa

SA gets $20 billion of investment pledges at confce: Ramaphosa

-- 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...

Glencore posts rise in copper, cobalt output on Katanga restart

Glencore posts rise in copper, cobalt output on Katanga restart

-- 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...

Sahle-Work Zewde first female president of Ethiopia

Sahle-Work Zewde first female president of Ethiopia

-- 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&...

Polygamy persists across Africa

Polygamy persists across Africa

-- 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...

Clan clashes kill over 50 in breakaway Somali region

Clan clashes kill over 50 in breakaway Somali region

-- 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...

Gunmen kill 14 in eastern Congo’s Ebola zone

Gunmen kill 14 in eastern Congo’s Ebola zone

-- 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...

Nigeria market violence leaves 55 dead

Nigeria market violence leaves 55 dead

-- 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...

Abducted Tanzanian biollionaire returns home safely

Abducted Tanzanian biollionaire returns home safely

-- 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...

Tunisia floods claim five lives

Tunisia floods claim five lives

-- 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...

DR Congo inks deal for massive power project

DR Congo inks deal for massive power project

-- 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....

Airstrike kills 60 Somali militants, US military says

Airstrike kills 60 Somali militants, US military says

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...

Nigerian militants kill aid worker after deadline expires

Nigerian militants kill aid worker after deadline expires

-- 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...

Double suicide bombings in Somalia kill 16

Double suicide bombings in Somalia kill 16

-- 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...

16 die in southeast Nigerian state oil pipeline fire: NNPC

16 die in southeast Nigerian state oil pipeline fire: NNPC

-- 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...

Eastern Uganda landslide kills 31

Eastern Uganda landslide kills 31

-- 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,...

Gunmen kidnap Africa’s ‘youngest billionaire’ in Tanzania

Gunmen kidnap Africa’s ‘youngest billionaire’ in Tanzania

-- 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...

At least 50 die in Kenya bus crash

At least 50 die in Kenya bus crash

-- 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...

SA finance minister asks president to sack him

SA finance minister asks president to sack him

-- 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...

Cameroon goes to polls as Biya seeks seventh term

Cameroon goes to polls as Biya seeks seventh term

-- 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...

Nigerian ex-minister announces presidential run

Nigerian ex-minister announces presidential run

-- 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...

Fuel tanker crash leaves 50 dead in Congo

Fuel tanker crash leaves 50 dead in Congo

-- 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...

Cameroon president seeks seventh term

Cameroon president seeks seventh term

-- 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,...

30 suffer injuries in Egypt palm plantation fire

30 suffer injuries in Egypt palm plantation fire

-- 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...