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South Africa train collision injures hundreds

South Africa train collision injures hundreds

-- 2018-10-05 14:34:04

About 320 people were injured when a packed train travelling from South Africa’s business hub Johannesburg to the capital Pretoria crashed into the back of a stationary train, Metrorail authorit...

Drunk police officer kills two colleagues in Ethiopia

Drunk police officer kills two colleagues in Ethiopia

-- 2018-10-04 15:48:24

A drunk police officer shot dead two colleagues in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday, state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporation reported. The policeman who fired on his colleagues wa...

34 migrants die in Mediterranean shipwreck, UN says

34 migrants die in Mediterranean shipwreck, UN says

-- 2018-10-03 16:04:15

At least 34 migrants have died in a shipwreck in the western Mediterranean, which 26 people survived, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday, citing the Moroccan navy and a Spanish aid agency. Moroc...

US airstrike kills nine militants in Somalia

US airstrike kills nine militants in Somalia

-- 2018-10-02 16:00:24

The US military said on Tuesday it had killed nine militants in an air strike in southern Somalia this week during a battle between US and Somali government troops and al Shabaab Islamist fighters. R...

13 die in Sierra Leone military truck crash

13 die in Sierra Leone military truck crash

-- 2018-10-02 12:24:25

Thirteen people were killed and at least 30 more injured when a military transport truck flipped over on a major road in the Sierra Leone capital on Monday, a military spokesman said.  The open-...

Nigeria's Buhari gets party nod to run for second term

Nigeria's Buhari gets party nod to run for second term

-- 2018-09-30 15:07:47

Nigeria’s ruling party has nominated President Muhammadu Buhari as its candidate to stand for re-election in February 2019, a spokesman for Buhari said late on Saturday. Buhari had run unoppose...

Burundi suspends local, int’l NGO’s for violating new law

Burundi suspends local, int’l NGO’s for violating new law

-- 2018-09-29 14:44:53

Burundi has suspended some local and international non-governmental organisations for three months for violating a new law, a senior government official said. The move could deepen opposition concern...

Tanzania gets first ever flyover

Tanzania gets first ever flyover

-- 2018-09-28 16:02:51

Tanzania has opened its first ever flyover in the business capital, Dar es Salaam. It has been named after Roads Agency CEO Patrick Mfugale, who is widely credited for improving Tanzania's roads. Th...

Cameroon separatists raid prison, free dozens before election

Cameroon separatists raid prison, free dozens before election

-- 2018-09-28 15:23:03

Separatist militants raided a prison in northwestern Cameroon and freed about 100 inmates, the government and separatists said on Thursday, as the rebels vowed to block next month’s presidenti...

Civil war in South Sudan caused 400,000 ‘excess deaths’: US report

Civil war in South Sudan caused 400,000 ‘excess deaths’: US report

-- 2018-09-26 19:20:45

South Sudan's civil war has caused nearly 400,000 "excess deaths" since fighting erupted in late 2013, a new report funded by the US State Department said Wednesday after years of uncertainty. The re...

Ethiopia govt arrests thousands after ethnic violence

Ethiopia govt arrests thousands after ethnic violence

-- 2018-09-25 17:20:26

The Ethiopian government has arrested thousands of people around the capital, Addis Ababa, over the past week and sent many of them to military camps for “rehabilitation,” officials said M...

Pirates kidnap 12 crew from Swiss vessel off Nigeria

Pirates kidnap 12 crew from Swiss vessel off Nigeria

-- 2018-09-23 12:45:48

Pirates kidnapped 12 crew members from a Swiss merchant vessel on Saturday in Nigerian waters, the ship’s operator said in a statement. Kidnapping for ransom is a common problem in parts of Nig...

Tanzanian ferry wreck: Death toll reaches 183

Tanzanian ferry wreck: Death toll reaches 183

-- 2018-09-22 17:37:43

Divers rescued a man on Saturday as they searched for survivors from the wreck of an overcrowded Tanzanian ferry that capsized on Lake Victoria on Thursday, killing at least 183 people. Four navy div...

Death toll reaches 136 in Tanzania ferry disaster

Death toll reaches 136 in Tanzania ferry disaster

-- 2018-09-21 15:57:21

More than 136 bodies were recovered and hundreds more are still feared missing after a ferry sank on Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Friday, said Tanzania’s top police official Simon Sirro. Rescue...

42 die as ferry capsizes in Lake Victoria

42 die as ferry capsizes in Lake Victoria

-- 2018-09-21 11:44:36

At least 42 people drowned when a passenger ferry capsized in Tanzania's Lake Victoria and government officials feared the final death toll could be more than 200, official said. Ukerewe District C...

SA top court legalises private use of marijuana

SA top court legalises private use of marijuana

-- 2018-09-19 13:37:26

South Africa’s highest court has allowed the private use of marijuana, upholding a lower court’s ruling that found the criminalisation of cannabis was unconstitutional. Activists who incl...

100 die in Nigeria flood, toll expected to rise

100 die in Nigeria flood, toll expected to rise

-- 2018-09-18 19:34:47

Nigerian authorities say 100 people have died in flooding after heavy rains in recent days. A National Emergency Management Agency spokesman tells The Associated Press that the deaths have occurred i...

Ethiopia ethnic violence leaves at least 23 dead

Ethiopia ethnic violence leaves at least 23 dead

-- 2018-09-17 18:44:38

At least 23 people were killed in a weekend of violence targeting minorities in the ethnic Oromo heartland near the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, said a police source. The unrest followed a mass ral...

Ethnic violence leaves 23 dead in Ethiopia

Ethnic violence leaves 23 dead in Ethiopia

-- 2018-09-17 17:00:44

At least 23 people were killed in a weekend of violence targeting minorities in the ethnic Oromo heartland near Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. The unrest followed a mass rally on Saturday mark...

Three die in Boko Haram ambush in Nigeria

Three die in Boko Haram ambush in Nigeria

-- 2018-09-17 16:03:20

Nigerian troops on Sunday overpowered a group of Boko Haram fighters, killing at least three, following a gunfight in the northeastern state of Borno. According to a statement by the army on Twitte...

Nigeria minister resigns over forged certificate

Nigeria minister resigns over forged certificate

-- 2018-09-16 12:09:36

Nigeria's finance minister has resigned over allegations she used a forged certificate to avoid the country's mandatory one-year youth service scheme. Kemi Adeosun, who lived in the UK until she was...

Rwanda decides to release jailed opposition leader

Rwanda decides to release jailed opposition leader

-- 2018-09-15 14:21:52

Rwanda has decided to immediately free Victoire Ingabire, an opposition leader jailed for 15 years, after President Paul Kagame exercised his power to grant mercy, the justice minister said on Saturda...

Sudan names ministers of finance, interior in new government

Sudan names ministers of finance, interior in new government

-- 2018-09-14 13:43:53

Sudan’s ruling party named new ministers to the key posts of finance, interior and water resources on Thursday, days after President Omar al-Bashir dissolved the government amid a deepening econ...

Truck falls into river in Mali, killing 20

Truck falls into river in Mali, killing 20

-- 2018-09-13 15:16:27

At least 20 people were killed in central Mali when a truck fell into a river after a suspected brake failure, the Malian government said on Wednesday. The incident in the West African country’...

Nigeria gas tanker blast leaves 35 dead

Nigeria gas tanker blast leaves 35 dead

-- 2018-09-11 11:34:34

At least 35 people were killed and hundreds injured when a gas tanker exploded in northern Nigerian state of Nasarawa and started a blaze, the state emergency agency said. The State Emergency Managem...

Six die in Somalia Al Shabaab attack

Six die in Somalia Al Shabaab attack

-- 2018-09-10 15:33:14

At least six people were killed on Monday in al Shabaab attack on a local government building in Somalia’s capital, the director of an ambulance service and a Reuters witness said. “We ha...

Mali's Keita names new defence, mines ministers for 2nd term

Mali's Keita names new defence, mines ministers for 2nd term

-- 2018-09-10 12:02:21

Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita named new defence, mines and foreign ministers on Sunday as he began his second five-year term presiding over a country ravaged by jihadist and inter-ethnic vio...

18 dead as plane crashes in South Sudan

18 dead as plane crashes in South Sudan

-- 2018-09-09 18:57:44

JUBA, South Sudan: A commercial plane crashed into a lake in South Sudan on Sunday, killing 18 people, a local official said. The 19-seater commercial Baby Air plane had been travelling from the capi...

Plane crashes in South Sudan, killing  six

Plane crashes in South Sudan, killing six

Reuters 2018-09-09 15:08:59

At least six people died in South Sudan on Sunday when a small aircraft carrying passengers from Juba International Airport to the city of Yirol crashed, an eye witness said.  “We are st...

Many feared dead after Islamist attack in Nigeria

Many feared dead after Islamist attack in Nigeria

-- 2018-09-08 22:15:11

Many people are feared dead after an Islamist militant attack on the northeast Nigerian town of Gudumbali, two residents and a vigilante said on Saturday, reports Reuters. The Nigerian government in...