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First Ethiopian flight in 20 years lands in Eritrea

-- 2018-07-18 18:15:25

The first flight in 20 years from Ethiopia to Eritrea has landed safely in Asmara on Wednesday. Ethiopian Airlines conducted the first direct passenger flights between Addis Ababa and Asmara, reconne...

Diversity of tribes not a weakness but strength: Obama

-- 2018-07-16 20:43:59

Former US President Barack Obama has urged Kenya’s leaders to turn their backs on the divisive ethnic politics that have frequently spilled over into violence and to stamp down on corruption. O...

SA copper mine fire kills five miners

-- 2018-07-16 11:32:59

Five miners died in a fire at a South African copper mine operated by unlisted Palabora Mining Company, the company said in a statement on Sunday. Safety is a huge issue in South Africa’s deep...

Tanzania's Magufuli orders strict conditions for prisoners

-- 2018-07-15 13:47:00

The president of Tanzania has called for prisoners to be made to work long hours, and to be punished if they are lazy. John Magufuli was speaking at the inauguration of a new prisons chief. Rights g...

Cameroon's president makes bid for seventh term

-- 2018-07-13 21:13:25

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya said on Friday he would run for re-election in October, aiming to extend his 36-year rule and keep his place on the roster of Africa’s longest-serving leader...

Nigeria to sign African free-trade agreement soon

-- 2018-07-12 13:06:04

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has said the country will sign up soon to a $3 trillion African free-trade agreement. Nigeria is one of Africa’s two largest economies, the other bein...

Egypt security forces kill 11 insurgents in Sinai

-- 2018-07-11 16:06:58

Egypt’s official news agency says security forces killed at least 11 suspected militants in a shootout in the northern Sinai Peninsula. MENA quoted an unnamed security official Wednesday as say...

SA releases ex-president Zuma’s son on bail

-- 2018-07-09 14:27:31

Duduzane Zuma, the son of former South African president Jacob Zuma, was released on bail after appearing in court in leg-irons on Monday on charges of corruption, the biggest scalp so far in an attem...

SA charges Zuma’s son with corruption

-- 2018-07-09 13:10:49

Duduzane Zuma, the son of scandal-plagued former South African president Jacob Zuma, has been charged with corruption, his lawyer said on Monday. Duduzane Zuma, who returned to South Africa last week...

Militants attack Somalia police headquarters

-- 2018-07-07 18:34:27

Militants of al Shabaab group stormed police headquarters of Somalia on Saturday after twin bombings wounded at least 17 people nearby in central Mogadishu. Witnesses saw a heavy exchange of gunfire...

Two explosions hit Somalia’s interior ministry

-- 2018-07-07 15:53:59

Two explosions occurred near Somalia’s interior ministry and security forces were battling gunmen inside, police said Saturday, as the al-Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility for the on...

S Sudan govt, rebels reach deal on security arrangements

-- 2018-07-07 11:47:22

South Sudan’s government and rebels have reached a deal on security arrangements during talks in Khartoum, Sudanese state news agency SUNA reported, as part of efforts to end nearly five years o...

Sierra Leone police arrest ex-vice president

-- 2018-07-06 14:50:46

Former vice president of Sierra Leone Victor Foh and Mansaray Minkailu, ex- mines minister, were arrested on Thursday as part of a crackdown on graft by new President Julius Maada Bio’s governme...

Ethiopia sacks senior prison officials over human rights violation

-- 2018-07-05 12:03:16

Ethiopia has fired senior prison officials hours before the release of a Human Rights Watch report detailing torture and other abuses in one notorious prison and urging the government to hold official...

Bus, truck collision leaves nine dead in Kenya

Reuters 2018-07-04 12:22:17

Nine people were killed and dozens injured when a bus and truck collided early on Wednesday on a busy highway southeast of Kenya’s capital, media reported. The accident, which resulted in a fir...

SA court summons Zuma’s son over fatal car crash

-- 2018-07-03 16:03:40

Former South African president Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane has been summoned to appear in court next week to answer homicide charges over a fatal car crash in 2014. State prosecutors initially de...

Kenya to prosecute county governor in graft case

-- 2018-07-03 13:20:46

Kenya’s top prosecutor on Tuesday ordered that a county governor face charges including abuse of office and conspiracy to steal public funds, the latest move in the country’s anti-graft ca...

Sophia meets Ethiopian PM after recovering lost body parts

-- 2018-07-02 18:48:00

Sophia, the famous humanoid robot, has finally met Ethiopia’s prime minister after her lost body parts were found. A bag containing some of the robot was lost at Frankfurt airport last week, wh...

Egypt's nuclear plant construction to begin in next two years

-- 2018-07-01 20:19:26

Egypt will begin the construction of its first nuclear power plant, to be built by Russia, in the next two to two-and-a-half years. The 4,800 megawatt (MW) capacity plant at Dabaa in the north of the...

Two French soldiers die in Mali car bomb attack

-- 2018-07-01 19:35:50

At least two French soldiers were killed in an attack after a car bomb was detonated in Mali on Sunday. One Malian military source said another 10 people had been killed, including civilians, in the...

Egyptian court delays verdict in mass trial

-- 2018-06-30 17:21:33

An Egyptian court on Saturday delayed a final ruling in a case against 739 people involved in a 2013 sit-in protest that was broken up by security forces. "Defendants could not be transferred to the...

100 migrants die as boat capsizes off Libya

-- 2018-06-30 11:37:58

At least 100 migrants, including three children, are feared dead after their boat capsised off the coast of Libya, the Libyan navy said Friday. The navy rescued 16 migrants, the Libyan navy spokesm...

Mali militant attack kills six

-- 2018-06-30 10:31:17

Islamist militants armed with rockets and explosives raided the headquarters of an African military taskforce in central Mali, leaving at least six people dead on Friday, a spokesman for the force sai...

Libyan militia takes control of radical Islamist city

-- 2018-06-29 19:09:30

Libyan militia leader Khalifa Haftar says that his forces now fully control the coastal city of Derna - until now the last radical Islamist stronghold in the east of the country. Gen Haftar declared...

Nine die in Nigeria oil tanker fire

-- 2018-06-29 13:57:38

At least nine people were killed and four others injured when an oil tanker collided with a car and exploded on a busy bridge in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos on Thursday. The accident h...

15 die in Nairobi market fire

-- 2018-06-28 14:41:34

Fifteen people died and dozens were injured when fire swept through a market in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in the early hours of Thursday, an official said. Emergency service St John Ambulance said t...

Mnangagwa suspects political faction behind rally blast

-- 2018-06-27 16:07:38

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he suspected dissidents from his own party linked to Robert Mugabe’s wife were behind an explosion at a rally he attended last week. Two people died...

At least 86 die in Nigeria in communal clashes

-- 2018-06-25 18:15:09

At least 86 people have been killed in attacks in central Nigeria, police said, an incident that has the potential to exacerbate ethnic tensions in an increasingly volatile region. The violence, thou...

Nigeria imposes curfew as 70 die in communal clashes

-- 2018-06-25 10:10:58

Nigeria imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on Sunday in central Plateau state after least 70 people died in communal clashes between farmers and semi-nomadic herders over the weekend. Strife in the decade...

Three kidnapped Turkish engineers freed in Libya

-- 2018-06-24 11:07:38

Three Turkish engineers kidnapped last year in the southern Libyan town of Ubari have been released, the UN-backed Libyan government said. In November, an unknown armed group kidnapped four engineers...