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Africa calls Trump racist after 'shithole' remark

Africa calls Trump racist after 'shithole' remark

Reuters 2018-01-13 11:18:27

African politicians and diplomats labelled US President Donald Trump a racist on Friday after he was reported to have described some immigrants from Africa and Haiti as coming from "shithole" countrie...

Ethiopian court jails members of outlawed group

Ethiopian court jails members of outlawed group

-- 2018-01-13 10:56:01

A court in Ethiopia has sentenced more than 30 people to long prison terms for belonging to an outlawed group. They were allegedly members of Ginbot 7, a group the authorities say is committed to ove...

New South African leader vows to wipe out corruption

New South African leader vows to wipe out corruption

-- 2018-01-13 07:03:55

The new leader of South Africa's ruling party vowed Saturday to crack down on the corruption that has weakened the African National Congress in a new push to end inequities that haunt the nation more...

Tunisia arrests another 150 including opposition leaders over unrest

Tunisia arrests another 150 including opposition leaders over unrest

-- 2018-01-12 09:17:44

Tunisian authorities arrested on Friday another 150 people including local opposition leaders over unrest against price and tax rises. Protests, some violent, flared across Tunisia on Monday, when on...

Cameroon crackdown triggers refugee exodus to Nigeria

Cameroon crackdown triggers refugee exodus to Nigeria

Reuters 2018-01-12 01:03:06

More than 15,000 Cameroonian refugees have fled to Nigeria amid a crackdown on Anglophone separatists, the United Nations (UN) refugee agency and Nigerian government officials said on Thursday. The o...

Ethiopia bans foreign adoptions

Ethiopia bans foreign adoptions

BBC 2018-01-11 10:42:53

Ethiopia has banned the adoption of children by foreigners amid concerns they face abuse and neglect abroad. Ethiopia is one of the biggest source countries for international adoptions by US citizens...

Tunisia deploys army after violent protests intensify

Tunisia deploys army after violent protests intensify

Reuters 2018-01-11 03:25:56

Over 300 protesters were arrested overnight and the army was deployed in several Tunisian cities in violent demonstrations over prices, taxes and unemployment that have swept the country. In Thala, n...

Zimbabwe investigates Grace Mugabe's PhD

Zimbabwe investigates Grace Mugabe's PhD

Reuters 2018-01-10 12:00:00

Zimbabwe’s anti-corruption agency is investigating whether former first lady Grace Mugabe was wrongly awarded a university doctorate more than three years ago, an official said on Tuesday. Grac...

Nigeria evacuating citizens trapped in Libya

Nigeria evacuating citizens trapped in Libya

-- 2018-01-08 12:10:04

Nigeria is starting flights to evacuate thousands of its citizens from Libya which will continue until all those wanting to return home have done so, said its foreign minister. Nigerians have recentl...

Eight migrants drown after dinghy sinks off Libya coast

Eight migrants drown after dinghy sinks off Libya coast

-- 2018-01-07 11:25:46

At least eight migrants have drowned and 84 have been rescued after a rubber dinghy sank off the coast of Libya, the Italian coastguard said. Dozens of others might still be missing, the Spanish resc...

Gunmen shoot dead 13, injure seven in Senegal

Gunmen shoot dead 13, injure seven in Senegal

-- 2018-01-07 10:29:50

Gunmen shot dead 13 people and wounded seven others on Saturday in the forest of Senegal’s southern region of Casamance, the army said. It was not clear who was responsible or what the motive w...

Mnangagwa rules out forming coalition govt

Mnangagwa rules out forming coalition govt

-- 2018-01-06 12:00:00

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ruled out forming a coalition government after visiting opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday. Zimbabwe is due to hold elections in 2018 in t...

Sudan closes border with Eritrea

Sudan closes border with Eritrea

-- 2018-01-06 07:26:59

Sudan has closed its border with Eritrea a week after Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir announced a six-month state of emergency in the regions of Kassala and North Kurdufan. State news agency S...

Air balloon crash in Egypt kills one, leaves 12 injured

Air balloon crash in Egypt kills one, leaves 12 injured

-- 2018-01-05 03:52:23

A tourist was killed and 12 other people injured when a hot air balloon carrying tourists of various nationalities crashed near Luxor in Egypt on Friday. The crash, to the west of the city of Luxor,...

Ethiopia to free all political prisoners

Ethiopia to free all political prisoners

-- 2018-01-04 11:29:34

Ethiopia will release politicians jailed on charges including involvement in terrorism, its prime minister said on Wednesday -- an unexpected shift in stance from the government, which has denied accu...

Somalia PM fires three key ministers

Somalia PM fires three key ministers

-- 2018-01-04 03:06:05

Somalian Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire has sacked his ministers for foreign affairs, the interior and commerce, replacing them with newcomers, the government said on Thursday, as it battles an Isla...

Strong quake shakes Algeria

Strong quake shakes Algeria

-- 2018-01-03 12:42:12

A strong 5-magnitude earthquake jolted northern Algeria on Tuesday night, said the Center of Research in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics. The epicenter of the quake was at the locality of Oued...

Two die climbing SA Table Mountain

Two die climbing SA Table Mountain

-- 2018-01-03 11:55:26

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of a tourist and his guide from South Africa's Table Mountain following an accident that trapped hundreds of people at the top of the popular attraction. The man, h...

11 die in suicide bombing in Nigeria

11 die in suicide bombing in Nigeria

-- 2018-01-03 04:59:02

A suicide bomber killed 11 people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in northeast Nigeria, the epicentre of the conflict with Islamist insurgency Boko Haram. The bomber hit the mosque in the town...

Zambia’s foreign minister quits amid party feud

Zambia’s foreign minister quits amid party feud

-- 2018-01-03 04:37:34

Zambia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba has resigned, he said on his Facebook page, as a struggle in the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) over President Edgar Lungu’s ambitions to run fo...

Egypt extends state of emergency

Egypt extends state of emergency

-- 2018-01-02 09:58:51

Egypt is to extend its ongoing state of emergency for three months from January 13. The country’s state-owned news agency MENA said it on Tuesday. Egypt first imposed the current state of emer...

New Year’s Day explosion kills three in Nigeria

New Year’s Day explosion kills three in Nigeria

-- 2018-01-02 02:58:03

At least three people have been killed after an explosion hit Nigeria's northeastern town of Madagali, local officials said Tuesday. The blast on Monday followed the planting of a bomb on a busy road...

Seven die in Congo anti-govt protests

Seven die in Congo anti-govt protests

-- 2018-01-01 11:09:00

Security forces killed at least seven people in the Democratic Republic of Congo during protests against President Joseph Kabila’s refusal to step down from office, United Nations peacekeepers s...

Congo orders internet cut ahead of anti-govt movement

Congo orders internet cut ahead of anti-govt movement

-- 2017-12-31 12:38:50

Democratic Republic of Congo’s government on Saturday ordered telecommunications providers to cut internet and SMS services across the country ahead of planned anti-government demonstrations. G...

New Liberian President seeks foreign investment

New Liberian President seeks foreign investment

-- 2017-12-31 10:29:58

Liberian President-elect George Weah has declared the country open to investment and pledged to tackle entrenched corruption, in his first speech to the nation since decisively winning an election thi...

Kenya road crash claims 30 lives

Kenya road crash claims 30 lives

-- 2017-12-31 01:57:39

At least 30 people have been killed and dozens injured as a Nairobi-bound passenger bus collided head-on with a truck on Nakuru-Eldoret highway in Kenya on Sunday morning. Police said the accident oc...

Football star wins presidential polls in Liberia

Football star wins presidential polls in Liberia

-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00

Former football star George Weah has defeated Vice President Joseph Boakai to win Liberia's presidential run-off election with 61.5 per cent of the vote based on 98.1 per cent of ballots cast, the ele...

Tanzania threatens to shut churches after Magufuli criticism

Tanzania threatens to shut churches after Magufuli criticism

-- 2017-12-30 11:56:46

Tanzanian authorities have threatened to shut down churches which mix religion and politics after a cleric criticised President John Magufuli. The cleric, Zachary Kakobe, used a Christmas sermon to s...

Egypt jails Morsi, 19 others for insulting judiciary

Egypt jails Morsi, 19 others for insulting judiciary

-- 2017-12-30 05:23:22

A Cairo criminal court sentenced former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and 19 others to three years in prison on Saturday on charges of insulting the judiciary. The court also fined Morsi 2 million...

Gunman attacks Egypt church, 10 die

Gunman attacks Egypt church, 10 die

-- 2017-12-29 06:49:41

At least 10 people have died after a gunman opened fire on a Coptic church near the Egyptian capital, Cairo. The attacker tried to enter Mar Mina Church in Helwan City, south of Cairo, on Friday. Sec...