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REUTERS 2021-08-10 18:54:24
Health authorities in West African country Guinea have confirmed one death from Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the World Health Organization said on Monday. It...
Reuters 2021-08-09 11:14:55
At least 12 soldiers were killed in an attack in northwestern Burkina Faso on Sunday and seven others are missing, three security sources said. There was no immediate comment from the army. The sourc...
-- 2021-08-08 11:35:50
One abducted girl from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been freed and reunited with her parents seven years after Boko Haram militants kidnapped her and more than 200 of her classmates, Borno state's...
-- 2021-08-06 16:34:19
Forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region have taken control of the town of Lalibela, whose famed rock-hewn churches are a United Nations World Heritage Site, and residents were fleeing, two eyewitnesses t...
REUTERS 2021-08-04 17:14:58
Kidnappers are demanding a ransom of one million naira each to release around 80 children snatched from a boarding school in northern Nigeria last month, according to a pastor involved in the negotiat...
-- 2021-08-01 16:52:52
Two humanitarian rescue ships pulled 394 migrants from a dangerously overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean overnight on Sunday in an operation lasting about six hours, a Reuters witness said....
Reuters 2021-07-26 10:39:47
Kidnappers who raided a boarding school in northern Nigeria earlier this month released 28 children on Sunday but another 81 remain in captivity, according to a pastor involved in the negotiations for...
Reuters 2021-07-26 10:11:47
Tunisia faced its biggest crisis in a decade of democracy on Monday after President Kais Saied ousted the government and froze the activities of parliament, a move his foes labelled a coup that should...
REUTERS 2021-07-25 16:15:27
Sierra Leone's parliament voted unanimously on Friday to repeal the death penalty more than two decades after the West African country carried out its last execution. Sierra Leone's President Julius...
REUTERS 2021-07-21 17:34:23
Police and government authorities have secured the release of 100 people, including women, children and nursing mothers, who were kidnapped from their village in north-western Nigeria over a month ago...
REUTERS 2021-07-13 21:04:40
Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or burned shopping malls in South Africa on Tuesday, with dozens reported killed as grievances unleashed by the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma boiled o...
Reuters 2021-07-13 11:40:41
South Africa deployed soldiers on Monday to quell violence that erupted following the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma, after days of riots left at least six people dead. Police said disturbanc...
-- 2021-07-11 10:25:59
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has won the country's delayed elections with an overwhelming majority, the election board said on Saturday. The board said Mr Abiy's Prosperity Party won 410 o...
-- 2021-07-10 17:10:07
Haiti has sought military assistance from the United Nations and the United States to protect its key infrastructure after the assassination of its President Jovenel Moise by suspected foreign mercena...
Reuters 2021-07-08 10:54:18
South African former President Jacob Zuma turned himself in to police on Wednesday to begin 15 months in jail for contempt of court, the culmination of a long legal drama seen as a test of the post-ap...
Reuters 2021-07-07 17:29:01
Haitian President Jovenel Moise was shot dead by unidentified attackers in his private residence overnight in an "inhuman and barbaric act" and his wife was injured, Interim Prime Minister Claude Jose...
XINHUA 2021-07-04 21:38:50
At least 32 people were killed and dozens more were injured in a road accident on Saturday night in Maputo Province, southern Mozambique, Radio Mozambique (RM) reported on Sunday. The crash, involvin...
-- 2021-07-03 20:46:56
At least 43 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as the travellers, including Bangladeshis, tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, while another 84 were rescued, the Tunisian Red...
REUTERS 2021-07-03 18:25:55
At least 43 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, while another 84 were rescued, the Tunisian Red Crescent told Reuters on Saturday....
Reuters 2021-07-01 18:09:45
At least 10 people were killed overnight in a raid on the city of Beni in eastern Congo, witnesses said, and a civil society group and a monitoring body said Islamist militants were suspected of being...
-- 2021-06-29 10:12:45
Ethiopia's government has declared a ceasefire in its war-torn Tigray region, as rebel fighters claim control of the regional capital Mekelle. Residents reported scenes of jubilation with thousan...
-- 2021-06-28 12:33:00
An estimated 30 people died on Sunday when Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab group launched an attack in a town in the country's semi-autonomous state of Galmudug, a security official said. The ins...
REUTERS 2021-06-26 13:18:40
Thirteen UN peacekeepers, 12 Germans and one Belgian, were wounded in northern Mali on Friday by a car bomb, the UN mission said, while Mali's army said six of its soldiers were killed in a separate a...
Thomson Reuters Foundation 2021-06-22 14:10:23
When Esther Dhlamini went to collect her pension in Johannesburg's Soweto township, she was surprised to find a local bishop on hand to soothe her fears about Covid-19 vaccination and register her for...
Reuters 2021-06-21 13:54:36
Ethiopians voted on Monday in national and regional elections that the prime minister has billed as proof of his commitment to democracy after decades of repressive rule in Africa's second-most populo...
REUTERS 2021-06-18 20:09:46
Gunmen killed a police officer and kidnapped at least 80 students and five teachers from a school in the Nigerian state of Kebbi, police, residents and a teacher said. The attack is the third mass ki...
-- 2021-06-18 12:37:56
Zambia's first President Kenneth Kaunda has died at the age of 97, the Zambian government announced on Thursday. Secretary to the Cabinet Simon Miti said on Thursday that Kaunda died at a military ho...
-- 2021-06-10 12:57:20
Eighteen people were killed in a road crash involving two commercial buses in Nigeria's northern state of Jigawa on Wednesday, the police said. Eighteen people were killed on the spot as the two buse...
Reuters 2021-06-07 15:24:16
The Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) militant group said in an audio recording heard by Reuters on Sunday that Abubakar Shekau, leader of rival Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram,...
-- 2021-06-06 12:47:02
At least 88 people were killed and scores of others wounded following attacks by bandits in Nigeria's northwestern state of Kebbi, local police confirmed on Saturday. The bandits unleashed terror on...
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