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Kenya elephant conservationist Daphne passes away

Kenya elephant conservationist Daphne passes away

-- 2018-04-14 14:18:57

Kenyan elephant conservationist Daphne Sheldrick has died of cancer aged 83. She helped save the lives of more than 230 elephants - many of which had lost their mothers to poachers or drought - by de...

Congo government blocks donors from raising aid  

Congo government blocks donors from raising aid  

-- 2018-04-13 19:23:30

The Democratic Republic of Congo has boycotted a UN donor conference in Geneva seeking to raise $1.7bn (£1.2bn) for the country. The UN says more than 13 million Congolese need humanitarian aid...

Five die in Somalia football match bombing

Five die in Somalia football match bombing

-- 2018-04-13 11:54:52

A bomb killed up to five spectators at a football match in southern Somalia, police and a lawmaker said on Friday, the first time an explosion has targeted a stadium. The blast went off in the port...

UN labels C African corpse protest as ‘propaganda’

UN labels C African corpse protest as ‘propaganda’

-- 2018-04-12 14:29:33

The UN says protesters who placed corpses in front of their headquarters in the Central African Republic (CAR) were using the bodies for ‘propaganda’. “Some people are using dead bo...

Mozambique to hold polls in October 2019

Mozambique to hold polls in October 2019

-- 2018-04-11 16:03:50

Mozambique will hold presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections on October 15 next year, the presidency said on Wednesday, setting the date for a vote that will proceed the southern African...

Military plane crashes in Algeria; over 250 dead

Military plane crashes in Algeria; over 250 dead

-- 2018-04-11 14:50:09

More than 100 people were killed when an Algerian military plane crashed into a field outside the capital on Wednesday, local media reported. Television footage showed crowds gathering around the smo...

Kenya bus plunge kills 17

Kenya bus plunge kills 17

-- 2018-04-11 10:51:50

A Kenyan official says a bus has plunged into the Siyapei River, causing the deaths of 17 passengers and seriously wounding four people. Narok County Commissioner George Natembeya said Tuesday that 4...

Nigeria’s Buhari confirms he’s running in 2019

Nigeria’s Buhari confirms he’s running in 2019

-- 2018-04-10 11:43:59

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed that he will seek another term in elections next year, ending months of speculation about his future after bouts of ill health. The 75-year-old sa...

Somali parliament speaker resigns, ending political crisis

Somali parliament speaker resigns, ending political crisis

-- 2018-04-09 12:57:44

The speaker of Somalia’s parliament, Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari, has resigned ahead of a confidence motion against him, a lawmaker said, ending weeks of political tension. “We were in th...

Ethiopian PM vows to end violence in clash-torn region

Ethiopian PM vows to end violence in clash-torn region

-- 2018-04-08 12:53:45

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed travelled to a region where clashes have displaced nearly a million people, his first trip since being sworn in as premier five days ago. Violence along the border...

Army in Mali kills 14 jihadist suspects

Army in Mali kills 14 jihadist suspects

-- 2018-04-07 19:03:02

Mali’s army said on Saturday it had killed 14 jihadist suspects who were trying to escape detention in its central region, the latest in a string of killings by the armed forces that have provok...

Ethiopia restores internet services

Ethiopia restores internet services

-- 2018-04-07 13:39:02

Mobile internet services have been restored in many areas of Ethiopia following a shutdown of months. It comes after new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed promised to bring about reforms in the country, whic...

UN peacekeepers die in mortar attack in Mali

UN peacekeepers die in mortar attack in Mali

-- 2018-04-06 22:51:17

Two United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in a mortar attack in the far north of Mali. The two Chadians were killed and 10 other peacekeepers were injured in the attack on the UN base at Agelh...

Robbers blow up Nigerian banks with dynamites

Robbers blow up Nigerian banks with dynamites

-- 2018-04-06 22:46:33

Armed robbers Friday blew up the entrances of five banks in central Nigeria's Offa town with dynamite, in an operation which lasted for more than an hour after the close of business and left six polic...

Former SA President Zuma due in court

Former SA President Zuma due in court

-- 2018-04-06 12:47:20

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma is due in court on corruption charges related to a $2.5 billion arms deal in the 1990s. He will face 16 counts of corruption, racketeering, fraud and money...

Cameroon security forces free 18 hostages

Cameroon security forces free 18 hostages

-- 2018-04-05 12:36:12

Twelve Europeans and six Cameroonians, who were seized by ‘secessionist terrorists’ in south-western Cameroon, have been freed in a military operation, a government statement said. It occ...

C Africa militia attack kills UN peacekeeper; 21 others dead

C Africa militia attack kills UN peacekeeper; 21 others dead

-- 2018-04-04 14:11:00

Christian militias stormed a UN base in southern Central Africa Republic, killing one peacekeeper and wounding 11 early on Monday, the United Nations said. At around 5 am (0400 GMT), armed anti-balak...

Zambia hands ultimatum to Cuban ambassador to leave country

Zambia hands ultimatum to Cuban ambassador to leave country

-- 2018-04-03 19:07:06

The Zambian government on Sunday has issued a seven day ultimatum to Cuban ambassador Nelson Pages Vilas to leave the country. Mr Vilas angered the government after attending the launch of opposition...

Six South African workers die in petrol bomb attack

Six South African workers die in petrol bomb attack

-- 2018-04-03 15:47:21

Six miners were killed when unknown attackers threw a petrol bomb at a bus transporting them to the Modikwa platinum mine in north east South Africa, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Tu...

Sisi gets second term as Egypt’s president

Sisi gets second term as Egypt’s president

-- 2018-04-03 11:38:19

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected for a second four-year term, after winning 97% of the vote last week, official results show. The amount is the same as he won in the last e...

South Africa's Winnie Mandela dies

South Africa's Winnie Mandela dies

-- 2018-04-02 20:46:28

South Africa's anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Mandela died on Monday at the age of 81 following a long illness Winnie Mandela was the former wife of South Africa's revolutionary leader Nelson Mande...

Al Shabab militants attack peacekeeper base in Somalia

Al Shabab militants attack peacekeeper base in Somalia

-- 2018-04-02 11:28:47

Islamist militants have launched a gun and bomb attack on an African Union (AU) peacekeeper base in Somalia. Al Shabab fighters detonated two car bombs outside the base in the town of Bulamarer, sout...

Botswana’s new president vows to tackle youth unemployment

Botswana’s new president vows to tackle youth unemployment

-- 2018-04-01 16:00:48

Botswana’s new president, sworn in on Sunday as the landlocked country’s fifth post-colonial leader, said he would give priority to tackling youth unemployment and diversifying its economy...

ICC takes Mali war crimes suspect into custody

ICC takes Mali war crimes suspect into custody

-- 2018-04-01 12:40:48

The International Criminal Court in the Hague has taken into custody a man wanted for war crimes in Mali, after the authorities there handed him over. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud h...

Sierra Leone votes to pick new president

Sierra Leone votes to pick new president

-- 2018-03-31 12:49:02

Sierra Leone called out to vote on Saturday in the final round of a presidential campaign marked by verbal sparring, sporadic violence and a last-minute legal battle. The vote of the West African s...

Car bomb rocks Libya killing five

Car bomb rocks Libya killing five

-- 2018-03-30 14:47:37

At least five people were killed and six wounded when a suicide bomber drove a car laden with explosives into a checkpoint in the eastern Libyan town of Ajdabiya late on Thursday, medics said. The ex...

Kenya deports opposition Miguna again

Kenya deports opposition Miguna again

-- 2018-03-29 11:21:35

Kenyan opposition figure Miguna Miguna has again been deported from the country amid an ongoing row over his citizenship status. The deportation is in defiance of multiple court rulings in his favour...

SA jails ex-estate agent over racist abuse

SA jails ex-estate agent over racist abuse

-- 2018-03-28 15:48:17

A former estate agent has become the first person in South Africa to be sentenced to prison for racist abuse. A court jailed Vicky Momberg for three years, with one year suspended, for using a deroga...

Ethiopia’s ruling coalition backs Abiye Ahmed as new PM

Ethiopia’s ruling coalition backs Abiye Ahmed as new PM

-- 2018-03-28 13:05:20

Ethiopia’s ruling coalition voted in Abiye Ahmed as new prime minister following the resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn last month, the state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation said Tuesday...

Sierra Leone postpones presidential runoff till Saturday

Sierra Leone postpones presidential runoff till Saturday

-- 2018-03-27 10:45:27

Sierra Leone's Supreme Court on Monday approved the election commission's request to delay Tuesday's runoff presidential vote until the weekend after the lifting of an interim injunction that had stal...