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-- 2018-08-08 15:44:07
Authorities have cut off Internet access in eastern Ethiopia amid an outbreak of violence in the region, two local residents said on Wednesday. The residents, one speaking from Oromia region and the...
-- 2018-08-07 15:57:32
Security forces temporarily blocked the entrance to Nigeria’s parliament on Tuesday, preventing lawmakers and others from entering for up to an hour, witnesses said. Witnesses said armed men we...
-- 2018-08-06 18:27:07
Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader Moïse Katumbi says he has not given up on his bid to stand in this year’s presidential election. Mr Katumbi was hoping to get into DR Congo,...
-- 2018-08-06 15:59:56
An explosion destroyed a car near a bridge in central Cairo in Egypt on Monday after a collision, a health ministry spokesman said. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast. Two security so...
-- 2018-08-06 11:36:06
Two car bombs hit Somalia on Sunday, killing six people. Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels claimed responsibility for the first suicide car bomb blast that that killed four people when it exploded n...
-- 2018-08-05 11:32:50
Ethiopian soldiers have clashed with a local police force in the restive Somali region, with the defence ministry saying it will "take the necessary measures" to restore order. Witnesses say the figh...
-- 2018-08-04 14:00:58
Ethiopia’s prime minister has appointed a team to advise his government on the privatisation of state-owned enterprises, his chief of staff said, as part of reforms the new leader has instituted...
-- 2018-08-04 13:44:37
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said he will be a leader for all Zimbabweans in a call for unity after rows broke out over his election victory. He appealed for peace and promised an independent inv...
-- 2018-08-03 11:36:36
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday won a election as the ruling party maintained control of the government in the first vote since the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe. The former s...
-- 2018-08-02 19:23:16
Businesses have shut in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, as the nation awaits the release of heavily disputed presidential election results. Armed soldiers and police are on patrol, ordering people to "be...
-- 2018-08-02 19:22:10
The exiled patriarch of Ethiopia's powerful Orthodox Church, Bishop Merkorios, has returned home to the capital, Addis Ababa, after 27 years. Ethiopia's reformist Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, met him...
-- 2018-08-02 19:15:35
An international delegation has arrived in the town of Beni in Democratic Republic of Congo, 30 km (18 miles) from where an Ebola outbreak was declared, said the World Health Organization on Thursday....
-- 2018-08-02 11:00:11
Zimbabwe police said three people were killed in Harare on Wednesday as soldiers dispersed stone-throwing opposition supporters who accused the ruling party of trying to rig Monday’s presidentia...
-- 2018-08-01 13:12:53
Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party won the majority of seats in parliament after sweeping rural constituencies by huge margins, official results showed on Wednesday, setting the stage for President...
-- 2018-07-31 14:28:39
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main opponent, Nelson Chamisa, both said on Tuesday they were confident of victory in an election the previous day which observers deemed too earl...
-- 2018-07-30 10:06:24
Zimbabweans go to the polls on Monday in the first election since the removal of Robert Mugabe, a watershed vote they hope will rid the country of its global pariah status and spark a recovery in its...
-- 2018-07-29 18:46:40
Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe on Sunday emerged to address the nation for the first time since stepping down in November and just hours before Monday’s historic election, declarin...
-- 2018-07-29 12:02:33
Malian voters were due to decide on Sunday on whether or not to give President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita a second term, despite widespread ethnic and jihadist violence that has dramatically worsened sinc...
-- 2018-07-29 09:25:08
Egyptians renewed online criticism of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday, hours after he said he was “saddened” by a similar campaign a few weeks ago. The Twitter hashtag “L...
-- 2018-07-28 18:47:02
An Egyptian zoo has come under criticism after being accused of painting donkeys to make them look like zebras. The zoo in Nasr City has denied the allegation but Mahmoud Sarhan, a recent high school...
-- 2018-07-28 12:12:27
US Vice President Mike Pence met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Friday and praised “the historic reform efforts” undertaken by Abiy since assuming power in April, the White Ho...
-- 2018-07-27 16:35:02
In the five years since Malians last chose a president, they’ve suffered violence from Islamist militants, Tuareg separatists, drug traffickers, ethnic vigilantes and Malian security forces. Ye...
-- 2018-07-26 16:05:39
South African cannot afford large-scale expansion of its nuclear power fleet but would still be open to future nuclear deals with Russia, a ruling party leader said. The African National Congress&rsq...
-- 2018-07-24 19:45:41
Democratic Republic of Congo’s health ministry on Tuesday declared that Ebola outbreak is over, believed to have killed 33 people, after 42 days with no new cases, reports Reuters. The outbreak...
-- 2018-07-24 13:31:29
The homes of about 30,000 people have been demolished in a Kenyan slum to make way for a new $20m (£15m) dual carriage way in the capital Nairobi. The residents, living in part of the city's la...
-- 2018-07-23 19:11:08
At least 11 dead bodies were evacuated following a suicide attack on a local mosque in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno early Monday. Eight others were wounded in the attack at about 5:15 am in...
-- 2018-07-23 11:22:14
Somalia’s al Shabaab group said on Monday its fighters had attacked a military base in the south of the country, killing 27 soldiers. “We first attacked the base with a suicide car bomb a...
-- 2018-07-22 12:52:56
Gunmen have shot dead 11 taxi drivers returning to Johannesburg in South Africa from the funeral of a colleague in Kwa-Zulu Natal, a police spokesman said on Sunday. The drivers, who were members of...
-- 2018-07-20 14:54:46
North Korea and Eritrea have the world’s highest rates of modern slavery, said a global survey on Thursday that highlighted how conflict and government repression are the main drivers of a crime...
-- 2018-07-19 15:47:09
Ethiopia has appointed its first ambassador to Eritrea in two decades in the latest sign of rapprochement after a border war, the state-affiliated Fana news agency said on Thursday. An online report...
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