-- 2021-02-01 15:39:29
At least nine were killed after al Qaeda-linked Islamist insurgents stormed a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, battling security forces until the early hours of Monday, a police spokesman said....
Reuters 2021-01-29 17:00:14
More than 200,000 people have fled fighting in the Central African Republic since violence erupted over a December election result, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday, with nearly half cross...
Reuters 2021-01-26 15:09:05
A Ugandan court on Monday ordered the security forces to free opposition leader and pop star Bobi Wine, whose house arrest since a presidential election has drawn international pressure on President Y...
-- 2021-01-25 13:31:55
The International Criminal Court on Sunday said it had taken into custody a former Central African Republic commander of the “Seleka” faction suspected of war crimes and crimes against hum...
Reuters 2021-01-25 13:02:33
Pirates off Nigeria’s coast kidnapped 15 sailors from a Turkish container ship in the Gulf of Guinea on Saturday in a brazen and violent attack that was farther from shore than usual. One sailo...
-- 2021-01-24 10:37:13
South Africa jazz trombonist and composer Jonas Gwangwa, whose music powered the anti-apartheid struggle, died on Saturday aged 83, the presidency said. President Cyril Ramaphosa led the tributes to...
Reuters 2021-01-23 17:40:40
The young coffee seller said she was split from family and friends by an Ethiopian soldier at the Tekeze river, taken down a path, and given a harrowing choice. “He said: ‘Choose, either...
Reuters 2021-01-21 19:57:55
Africa's coronavirus case fatality rate stands at 2.5 per cent, higher than the global level of 2.2 per cent, a trend that is alarming experts, the head of the continent's disease control body said on...
-- 2021-01-20 10:35:31
Uganda accused the US ambassador on Tuesday of seeking to subvert last week’s presidential election by trying to visit the main opposition candidate at his home, which has been surrounded by sec...
-- 2021-01-19 18:13:14
Uganda accused the US ambassador on Tuesday of seeking to subvert last week’s presidential election by trying to visit the main opposition candidate at his home, which has been surrounded by sec...
REUTERS 2021-01-18 11:20:34
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine’s party said on Sunday that it was preparing to challenge President Yoweri Museveni’s election win and condemned what it called the house arrest of Wine...
-- 2021-01-17 19:18:58
At least 48 people died and 97 people were injured in a militia attack in Sudan's West Darfur state on Saturday, Sudan's state news agency SUNA said, citing a local doctors union. The attack came jus...
-- 2021-01-16 12:27:51
Long-time leader Yoweri Museveni had a commanding lead in Uganda’s presidential election according to preliminary results on Friday though his main rival Bobi Wine said there had been widespread...
-- 2021-01-15 19:19:57
At least 46 civilians are reported to have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a senior provincial official said on Thursday....
-- 2021-01-14 11:26:02
Uganda’s communications regulator ordered telecoms operators in the country to suspend all internet gateways from Wednesday evening until further notice, South African telecoms company MTN Gro...
Reuters 2021-01-12 20:02:59
Users complained on Tuesday that they were unable to access Facebook and WhatsApp, social media platforms being widely used for campaigning by all sides ahead of Thursday’s election in the East...
-- 2021-01-11 14:08:20
Ethiopia’s military said on Sunday it had killed 15 members of the Tigray region’s former ruling party and captured eight others, according to state-run TV. Citing a brigadier-general fro...
Reuters 2021-01-06 11:21:49
More than 20 people, including children, were killed in air strikes during a wedding ceremony in a remote desert area of central Mali on Sunday, a health worker with knowledge of the attack said on Tu...
-- 2021-01-03 20:56:19
At least 70 civilians were killed in simultaneous attacks on two villages by suspected Islamist militants in Niger, near the border zone with Mali, security sources said on Saturday. About 49 village...
-- 2021-01-02 20:46:22
A suicide bombing in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Saturday killed five people including two Turks, the Turkish health minister said. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group claimed respons...
Reuters 2020-12-28 14:12:45
A Reuters cameraman, Kumerra Gemechu, was arrested in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday and will be kept in custody for at least two weeks, his family said. He has not been charged. No re...
-- 2020-12-28 10:48:40
South Africa has become the first country on the continent to register more than one million Covid-19 cases. It comes just days after authorities confirmed that a new, faster-spreading, coronavirus v...
Reuters 2020-12-26 17:13:12
Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed in Central African Republic, the U.N. mission there said on Saturday, as the government and its allies tried to fend off a rebel offensive ahead of Sunday...
-- 2020-12-26 11:49:06
At least 15 people have died in recent weeks on the South African side of the Beitbridge border with Zimbabwe in lengthy queues that have been slowed by coronavirus screening, television news channel...
Reuters 2020-12-26 11:47:28
The death toll from a Wednesday attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia has risen to 222 people, a volunteer from the country’s Red Cross told Reuters on Friday. “Yeste...
Aljazeera 2020-12-25 18:50:34
Ethiopia will hold a parliamentary election on June 5, 2021, its National Electoral Board has said on Friday, after postponing the vote from August this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The cha...
Reuters 2020-12-25 18:40:38
The long-time leader of Mali’s opposition, Soumaila Cisse, has died at the age of 71, his spokesman said on Friday, two months after his release from lengthy captivity by Islamist insurgents. C...
-- 2020-12-25 12:04:45
A 7-year-old Ugandan boy has become a sensation in his country with his precocious display of aircraft knowledge and budding flying skills. Graham Shema has been interviewed on local television and h...
AP 2020-12-24 18:27:49
Another new variant of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, Africa's top public health official said Thursday, but he added that further investigation was needed. The discovery could a...
-- 2020-12-24 17:17:05
At least 20 migrants from Africa died when their boat sank off Tunisia on Thursday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa, a Tunisian security official told Reuter...
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