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Airstrike kills 11 terrorists in southern Libya

-- 2018-12-01 14:04:21

At least eleven terrorists were killed in an airstrike near Al Uwaynat in Libya on Thursday, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) claimed responsibility on Saturday. "In coordination with the Libyan Governmen...

Zimbabwe to get new parliament building

-- 2018-11-30 18:37:34

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to break ground for the building of a new parliament, the information ministry has tweeted. The building which is to be located on farmland north-w...

Islamic extremists are now using drones: Buhari

-- 2018-11-30 15:02:50

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari said that Islamic extremists have begun using drones, opening a worrying new front in the region's nearly decade-long fight against Boko Haram and an offshoot link...

Tanzania 'prefers Chinese aid to West's'

-- 2018-11-28 15:12:25

Tanzania's President John Magufuli has said he prefers Chinese to Western aid as it comes with fewer conditions. Magufuli has been under intense pressure from Western nations over his controversial p...

Gunmen kill cleric, nine followers at Somalia religious centre

-- 2018-11-26 10:45:11

Al Shabaab gunmen and a suicide car bomber struck a religious centre in central Somalia on Monday, killing a cleric and at least nine of his followers, a police officer said. “The militants kil...

Dozens die as Uganda party boat sinks

-- 2018-11-25 17:54:34

At least 29 people are now known to have died after a cruise boat carrying party revellers capsized on Lake Victoria, Ugandan police say. The vessel was carrying close to 100 people when it sank on...

French forces kill top jihadist in Mali

-- 2018-11-25 12:22:33

One of Mali's top jihadist leaders has been killed in a raid by French forces, said the Malian army. It said Amadou Koufa died in Friday's operation in the central Mopti region. France earlier sugge...

Cruise boat capsizes in Uganda, killing 10

-- 2018-11-25 10:51:14

At least 10 people have died after a cruise boat capsized in Lake Victoria in Uganda on Saturday evening while more than 40 others were rescued, Ugandan police said. "The rescue mission is still on t...

Four Finns among five die in Zimbabwe plane crash

-- 2018-11-25 10:24:25

Four Finnish citizens are believed to have been among five people who died in a plane crash in Zimbabwe on Friday, their companies and Finland’s foreign ministry said. The plane crashed near Ma...

Suspected IS gunmen kill nine in Libya

-- 2018-11-24 18:54:34

Gunmen on Friday raided a town deep in Libya's southern desert, killing nine people and kidnapping several others, a resident said, with officials blaming the attack on the militant group Islamic Stat...

Gunmen kill six in southern Libya

-- 2018-11-24 10:15:13

Gunmen raided a town deep in Libya’s southern desert, killing six, the municipality said on Friday, adding that it believed the militant group Islamic State was responsible. A military source s...

Ethiopian Airlines steps up hunt for African connections

-- 2018-11-23 16:39:04

Ethiopian Airlines is accelerating its strategy of weaving a patchwork of new African routes to soak up traffic on the continent and fly customers towards its more lucrative flights to rapidly expandi...

Libyan gunmen release kidnapped Egyptian workers

-- 2018-11-22 11:03:05

Egyptian workers taken hostage in Libya this week over a financial dispute between Libyan contractors and their Egyptian partner have been freed, a relative of one of the hostages said. The governor&...

Frelimo urges Renamo to stop war threats

-- 2018-11-21 16:07:45

The main opposition Renamo has to stop making threats in peace processes, considering that President Filipe Nyusi is making the processes viable, the ruling party spokesman of Mozambique said on Tuesd...

Kenya launches first coastguard patrol

-- 2018-11-20 15:18:15

Kenya's president has launched the country's first coastguard to protect and monitor its territorial waters. It will guard against illegal fishing, which President Uhuru Kenyatta says costs Kenya abo...

Nigeria’s Buhari launches manifesto for re-election bid

-- 2018-11-19 14:24:59

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has launched his manifesto, hoping his anti-corruption agenda can win him a second term at a Feb 16 election. Buhari, a military ruler in the early 1980s, in 2015...

Egypt, Ethiopia to discuss Nile dam dispute

-- 2018-11-18 21:10:30

Egypt said on Sunday it would hold talks with Ethiopia in the next two weeks to iron out differences over an Ethiopian dam on the River Nile that Cairo sees as a threat to its water supplies. The two...

Mortar bombs fired at UN peacekeeping base in Congo

-- 2018-11-17 12:02:20

Mortar bombs were fired at a UN peacekeeping base and gunfire could be heard in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Beni, an area which has seen a surge in fighting with rebel gro...

Ugandan army to protect Chinese businesses

-- 2018-11-16 15:30:39

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the army to protect Chinese companies following a spate of thefts. Addressing a group of 120 Chinese investors on Wednesday, Museveni announced increased...

Ethiopia arrests ex-deputy intelligence chief for rights abuses

-- 2018-11-15 13:07:50

Ethiopia’s former deputy intelligence chief has been arrested, Attorney General Berhanu Tsegaye said on Thursday, in the latest move targeting security officials for human rights abuses and corr...

Dozens of migrants refuse to leave container ship in Libya

-- 2018-11-14 19:37:04

Dozens of migrants have barricaded themselves in a container ship in the Libyan port city of Misrata for the past five days, after being picked up at sea, and refuse to disembark, saying Libya is too...

Tanzania drafts bill to increase health insurance coverage

-- 2018-11-14 15:28:14

Tanzania is finalising draft of a bill to make it mandatory for every person to be covered by health insurance services, a senior official said Tuesday. Ummy Mwalimu, Tanzania's Minister of Health, C...

Clashes between army, separatists kill 15 in Cameroon

-- 2018-11-14 13:07:13

At least 15 people have been killed in a new bout of fighting between Cameroon army troops and separatist rebels, the two sides said on Tuesday, in a rise in violence since President Paul Biya won a s...

Congo Ebola death toll crosses 200 mark

-- 2018-11-11 11:40:28

More than 200 people have now died in the latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to health officials. About half the victims were from Beni, a city of 800,000 in the...

Suicide car bombers kill 39 in Somalia

-- 2018-11-10 14:41:22

At least 39 people were killed and 40 others injured in a suicide car bomb attack at a hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday, police said on Saturday. “We have confirmed 39 civil...

Gender based violence on the rise in Zambia

-- 2018-11-09 13:55:06

Zambia recorded an increase in gender-based violence cases during the third quarter (Q1) of the current year, compared to the same period last year, police said on Thursday. The nation saw the num...

Ethiopia unearths mass grave with 200 bodies

-- 2018-11-09 12:23:59

Police in Ethiopia have uncovered a grave containing at least 200 bodies along the border between the strife-torn Oromiya and Somali regions, state-affiliated media said. The mass grave was found dur...

South Africa likely to hold elections in May next year

-- 2018-11-07 20:38:16

South Africa will hold parliamentary elections sometime between May 7 and August 5 next year, the electoral commission said on Wednesday, raising the likelihood of a vote in May which is the preferenc...

Cameroon 'separatists' release all 78 child hostages

-- 2018-11-07 14:23:59

All 78 children and a driver kidnapped in west Cameroon have been released on Wednesday, but a principal and one teacher are still being held by the armed men that took them, a priest conducting neg...

80 people, mostly school children, abducted in Cameroon

-- 2018-11-05 19:22:02

More than 80 people, mostly children, were kidnapped from a school in the city of Bamenda in western Cameroon on Monday. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the abduction in the English-spe...