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Libyan army allows oil companies' airplanes to resume flights

-- 2019-02-22 14:25:59

Libyan army on Thursday allowed oil companies' airplanes to resume flights in southern Libya after declaring the region a no-fly zone recently. "The Commander of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces issued i...

Death toll from northwest Nigeria attack doubles to 130

-- 2019-02-20 18:14:49

The death toll from an attack last week by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria has doubled to more than 130, the Kaduna state governor said on Tuesday, adding it appeared to have been a deliberate plan to...

Blast kills two policemen in Egyptian capital: Ministry

-- 2019-02-19 11:18:54

Two policemen were killed and three wounded when an explosive device carried by a militant they were pursuing detonated in the heart of the Egyptian capital on Monday, an interior ministry statement s...

Tunisia cops, protesters clash over youth’s death

-- 2019-02-17 11:48:07

Police in Tunisia fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators who protested after a young man died inside a police station near the coastal resort of Hammamet, witnesses said on Saturday. The young man...

Nigeria delays presidential election for a week

-- 2019-02-16 12:06:14

Nigeria's presidential and parliamentary elections have been delayed for a week. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) made the announcement just five hours before the polls were due t...

'922 Madagascar children dead of measles since October'

-- 2019-02-15 18:06:14

At least 922 children and young adults have died of measles in Madagascar since October, despite a huge emergency vaccination program, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. The number...

IS claims responsibility for attack on Nigeria governor’s convoy

-- 2019-02-14 13:11:53

Islamic State claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an attack on the convoy of a state governor who was headed to a rally in northeastern Nigeria ahead of Saturday’s presidential election. Th...

Sudan security arrests professors as protests continue to grow

-- 2019-02-13 13:36:45

Security forces arrested 14 professors who were gathering to protest outside Khartoum University on Tuesday, witnesses said, as anti-government demonstrations neared the end of their eighth week. Doc...

Red Crescent recovers 10 bodies in eastern Libya

-- 2019-02-12 13:04:55

The Libyan Red Crescent on Monday recovered 10 unidentified bodies in the eastern Libyan city of Darna, where the army is fighting the remaining terrorists holed up in the city centre. "The recovery...

Sudanese forces fire tear gas to disperse women protesters

-- 2019-02-11 12:19:51

Sudanese security forces used tear gas on Sunday to break up a crowd of hundreds of people, mostly young women, demonstrating against the detention of women arrested at previous protests, witnesses sa...

Seven get life in jail over Tunisia museum, hotel massacres

-- 2019-02-10 11:39:59

A Tunisian court jailed seven people for life on Saturday for their involvement in two deadly militant attacks in 2015, one on a museum in Tunis and the other on a hotel in a Mediterranean resort. Ot...

Desalegn to head AU election mission in Nigeria

-- 2019-02-09 14:18:53

Former Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn will lead an African Union (AU) election observation mission to observe Nigeria's upcoming general polls, an AU official has said. AU Commissioner...

Libya detains sovereign wealth fund chairman: Official

-- 2019-02-07 16:06:04

The chairman of Libya’s LIA sovereign wealth fund, Ali Mahmoud Hassan Mohamed, was detained on Wednesday for an investigation into alleged “corruption and exploitation of (his) position,&r...

H1N1 flu kills 16 in Morocco

-- 2019-02-06 13:18:46

H1N1 flu has killed 16 people in Morocco, the government said Tuesday. A total of 36 people are receiving care in hospitals because of the flu, while 20 others have recovered, said Government Spokesm...

Car bombing kills two at Somalia shopping mall

-- 2019-02-04 15:30:36

A car bomb exploded at a shopping mall in Somalia’s capital on Monday, killing two people and injuring four others in an attack probably by Islamist group al Shabaab, police said. The blast occ...

Tomb with 50 mummies found in Egypt

-- 2019-02-03 13:46:36

Fifty mummies dating back to the Ptolemaic era (305-30BC) have been found by Egyptian archaeologists, the antiquities ministry says. The mummies, of which 12 were children, were found in four burial...

Egypt lawmakers to propose constitution amendment bill

-- 2019-02-03 13:21:17

A coalition of Egyptian parliamentarians will submit a request for constitutional amendments providing for a second chamber of parliament and the appointment of one or more deputy presidents, state ne...

Four Libyan soldiers die in clashes

-- 2019-02-02 12:53:57

At least four Libyan soldiers were killed when forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar fought with a local armed group as they sought to expand south, military officials said on Friday, with the World Health O...

H1N1 virus claims five lives in Morocco

-- 2019-02-01 14:31:54

At least five people have died in Morocco after contracting the H1N1 virus, the country’s Health Minister Anas Doukkali said Thursday. In a statement to Morocco's official MAP news agency, D...

Nigeria rival candidate to consider amnesty for graft suspects

-- 2019-01-31 11:40:54

Nigerian opposition presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar said on Wednesday he would consider an amnesty for corruption suspects in order to help recover billions of dollars stashed abroad by the coun...

Cameroon arrests main opposition leader for protest

-- 2019-01-29 13:15:05

Cameroonian authorities arrested opposition leader Maurice Kamto on Monday, his lawyer said, after weekend protests that security forces dispersed with live bullets, wounding six people. Kamto has be...

Sudanese president fights for survival as protests spread

-- 2019-01-27 17:42:49

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir does little to hide his contempt for the young men and women who have been protesting for more than a month to demand an end to his three-decade rule. Addressing sol...

Egypt opens new int’l airport in Giza for trial flights

-- 2019-01-27 11:40:02

Egypt opened a new international airport on the outskirts of the capital on Saturday for an initial trial period, in a bid to ease pressure from Cairo’s main airport and help boost tourism. The...

South Sudanese fear leaving UN protected camps

-- 2019-01-26 19:09:38

Tracing his fingers over the metal fencing at a United Nations protected site in South Sudan’s capital, Nhial Nyuot Nhial hung his head as he contemplated going home after years of civil war. &l...

New Congo president Tshisekedi calls for unity after divisive election

-- 2019-01-25 13:39:54

Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi called for national reconciliation on Thursday as he became Democratic Republic of Congo’s president, succeeding Joseph Kabila in Congo’s first transfer...

Abiy's Ethiopia pardons 13,000 accused of treason or terrorism

-- 2019-01-22 19:46:52

Ethiopia has pardoned more than 13,000 people in the past six months who had been charged with or convicted of treason or terrorism, state-affiliated media said on Tuesday. The previous government ha...

Ten UN peacekeepers die in Mali attack

Reuters 2019-01-21 14:01:43

Ten UN peacekeepers from Chad were killed and at least 25 were wounded while repelling an attack by armed assailants near a village in northern Mali on Sunday, the West African nation’s UN missi...

Congo's Fayulu rejects court ruling, declares himself president

-- 2019-01-20 12:54:50

Congo opposition candidate Martin Fayulu rejected a court ruling on Sunday that his rival won a presidential election, declaring himself president in a move that could stoke further unrest. “Th...

Photojournalist dies in Tripoli clashes

-- 2019-01-20 12:08:54

A freelance photographer, who had contributed to the Associated Press among other news organisations, was killed in clashes between rival militias in the Libyan capital Tripoli, a government official...

Kenya investigates local role in Nairobi hotel attack

-- 2019-01-19 13:14:09

Investigators in Kenya are exploring the possibility that some of the militants who attacked a Nairobi hotel and office complex may not have been ethnic Somalis, stoking fears that militants are deepe...