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Processed meat responsible for SA listeria outbreak

Processed meat responsible for SA listeria outbreak

-- 2018-03-05 12:11:33

South Africans have been advised not to consume ready-to-eat processed meat after the government identified the source of a listeria outbreak that has killed 180 people as a cold meat product made by...

Libya tribal fighting prompts displacement of 120 families

Libya tribal fighting prompts displacement of 120 families

-- 2018-03-04 13:01:25

The undergoing tribal fighting beginning from last week prompted displacement of up to 120 families in Libya's southern city of Sabha, the city government revealed on Saturday. The government of Sabh...

UN halts operation in Nigeria following aid workers’ death

UN halts operation in Nigeria following aid workers’ death

-- 2018-03-04 11:27:03

The United Nations has suspended aid operations helping tens of thousands of people in north-eastern Nigeria after an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants left three humanitarian workers dead. At...

Libyan security forces detain five IS militants

Libyan security forces detain five IS militants

-- 2018-03-03 14:08:39

Libyan security forces have arrested five members of Islamic State (IS) involved in bombings and suicide attacks, the Libyan Interior Ministry said. The ministry said that the militants were "plannin...

Ethnic clashes kill dozens in DR Congo

Ethnic clashes kill dozens in DR Congo

-- 2018-03-03 10:32:28

A fresh outbreak of ethnic violence has killed more than 33 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said. Clashes erupted between the Hema and Lendu communities in the north-eastern p...

Rwanda shuts down over 700 churches

Rwanda shuts down over 700 churches

-- 2018-03-01 12:03:54

Rwandan government has closed down more than 700 churches for causing noise pollution and failing to meet the requirements of the building regulations. Most of them are small Pentecostal churches. On...

Nigeria orders to defend ‘all schools’ in Boko Haram

Nigeria orders to defend ‘all schools’ in Boko Haram

-- 2018-02-28 23:03:37

Nigeria's security forces have been ordered to defend all schools in "liberated areas" of the country's northeast to avoid further mass abductions from schools by Boko Haram extremists, the president'...

Egypt train collision leaves 15 dead

Egypt train collision leaves 15 dead

-- 2018-02-28 20:48:01

At least 15 people died in a train collision in northern Egypt on Wednesday. Another 40 people were hurt in the collision between a freight train and a passenger train in Beheira province. Egypt's h...

S Africa endorses land expropriation without compensation

S Africa endorses land expropriation without compensation

-- 2018-02-28 13:31:28

South Africa’s parliament passed a motion brought by the radical left party, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), to carry out land expropriation without compensation, a key pillar of the ruling ANC...

SA’s Ramaphosa reshuffles cabinet, Nene makes comeback

SA’s Ramaphosa reshuffles cabinet, Nene makes comeback

-- 2018-02-27 10:59:46

New South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced his cabinet, making substantial changes to ministerial positions. He reappointed Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister, reversing his sacking by...

Nigeria speeds up search for 110 abducted schoolgirls

Nigeria speeds up search for 110 abducted schoolgirls

-- 2018-02-26 11:21:59

Nigeria has deployed extra troops and planes to search for 110 schoolgirls believed to have been abducted by Boko Haram militants last week. The girls went missing after jihadists stormed their schoo...

UN S Sudan mission recalls police unit over abuse claims

UN S Sudan mission recalls police unit over abuse claims

-- 2018-02-25 13:43:15

The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan has recalled a Ghanaian police unit working at one of its protection camps while it investigates allegations that some of them were involved in sexual abuse,...

Nigerian parents to get jail term if children skip school

Nigerian parents to get jail term if children skip school

-- 2018-02-24 20:37:20

Nigeria’s oil-rich Bayelsa state is threatening parents who do not make sure their children go to school with jail terms. The state signed the new law into the books amid concerns children were...

Death toll from Somalia blasts rises to 45

Death toll from Somalia blasts rises to 45

-- 2018-02-24 17:15:01

The death toll from twin car bomb blasts in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has risen to 45 from the initially reported 18. Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for the attack o...

Double car blasts kill 18 in Somali capital

Double car blasts kill 18 in Somali capital

-- 2018-02-24 10:44:44

A double car bombing in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu killed at least 18 people and injured 20 others on Friday, said officials. They said the attacks were carried out by the Islamist militant gr...

Row over Kenyan oil revenues threatens to delay production

Row over Kenyan oil revenues threatens to delay production

-- 2018-02-23 14:00:01

In the decades before oil was discovered in the northern Kenyan region of Turkana South, 100,000 poor villagers living in arid scrubland relied on a lone church-run health centre in Lokichar town fo...

Egypt sentences 21 to death on terrorism charges

Egypt sentences 21 to death on terrorism charges

-- 2018-02-22 19:23:24

An Egyptian court has sentenced 21 people to death and seven others to up to life in prison on terrorism-related charges. Thursday's verdict, reported by the state-run MENA news agency, can be appeal...

Nigeria rescues 76 schoolgirls after Boko Haram attack

Nigeria rescues 76 schoolgirls after Boko Haram attack

-- 2018-02-22 10:27:59

The Nigerian military rescued 76 schoolgirls and recovered the bodies of two others on Wednesday, after the students went missing during a Boko Haram attack on a village, three parents, a resident and...

Over 90 schoolgirls missing as Boko Haram strikes again

Over 90 schoolgirls missing as Boko Haram strikes again

-- 2018-02-21 21:26:00

More than 90 Nigerian schoolgirls are feared missing after Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram attacked a village in the northeastern state of Yobe, two sources told Reuters on Wednesday. Their disap...

5 killed in SA police station attack

5 killed in SA police station attack

-- 2018-02-21 17:21:55

Five police officers and a soldier have been shot dead during a raid on their station in South Africa's Eastern Cape province Umtata. The South African Government News Agency, in a statement said thr...

Zimbabweans bid farewell to Tsvangirai

Zimbabweans bid farewell to Tsvangirai

-- 2018-02-21 11:08:23

More than 5,000 people have attended the burial of Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in his home village after he died of colon cancer. The burial was marred by divisions in the party he...

Nigerian police detain three village massacre masterminds

Nigerian police detain three village massacre masterminds

-- 2018-02-20 10:42:20

Nigerian local police have arrested three people suspected to have masterminded an attack which led to the killing of at least 36 villagers in the north-western state of Zamfara last week. Kenneth Em...

Gambia suspends capital punishment

Gambia suspends capital punishment

-- 2018-02-19 20:52:05

The Gambia's President has announced suspension of the death penalty as the West African country seeks to rebuild its international standing following the removal of its authoritarian ruler last year....

Mozambique rubbish dump collapse kills 17

Mozambique rubbish dump collapse kills 17

-- 2018-02-19 20:40:25

At least 17 people have been killed on Monday after heavy rains caused the partial collapse of a rubbish dump in Mozambique. A 15-metre high pile of rubbish collapsed, destroying seven houses, and re...

Oxfam Haiti scandal suspects threaten key witnesses: Report

Oxfam Haiti scandal suspects threaten key witnesses: Report

FE Online Desk 2018-02-19 17:54:38

Three members of the controversial Oxfam Haiti team that was under investigation for sexual exploitation and other breaches physically threatened a colleague to ensure that person’s silence The...

Ex-Oxfam director admits hiring prostitutes

Ex-Oxfam director admits hiring prostitutes

-- 2018-02-19 11:06:45

Oxfam's country director in Haiti admitted to using prostitutes at his residence during a relief mission before resigning in 2011, according to an internal investigation into allegations of sexual mis...

Egypt jails 65 Brotherhood members over incitement

Egypt jails 65 Brotherhood members over incitement

-- 2018-02-19 10:55:16

A court in Egypt has sentenced 65 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group to prison over inciting anti-state riots, protests and violence. Prosecutors say the group was caught with inflammator...

Ethiopia state of emergency to last six months

Ethiopia state of emergency to last six months

-- 2018-02-18 13:03:53

The Ethiopian defence minister has said the newly imposed state of emergency will last for six months as authorities seek to tamp down unrest in the Horn of Africa country. The country’s Counci...

Nigeria suicide bombing claims 18 lives

Nigeria suicide bombing claims 18 lives

-- 2018-02-17 15:16:01

Three suicide bombers have killed 18 people in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, capital of the state worst hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, its police commissioner said on Saturday. Damian...

Ethiopia announces state of emergency

Ethiopia announces state of emergency

-- 2018-02-17 10:39:52

Ethiopia declared a state of emergency just a day after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced his intention to step down amid a political turmoil in the Horn of Africa country. The ruling EPR...