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At least 11 die in Uganda blind school fire

At least 11 die in Uganda blind school fire

-- 2022-10-25 18:49:06

At least eleven students died and six others were in critical condition after a fire in a school for the blind in central Uganda, police said on Tuesday. The fire broke out around 1 a.m. at the Salaa...

Pakistani journalist killed in police shooting in Kenya

Pakistani journalist killed in police shooting in Kenya

-- 2022-10-24 18:05:45

A well-known Pakistani journalist, Arshad Sharif, was shot dead in Kenya when police hunting car thieves opened fire on the vehicle he was travelling in as it drove through their roadblock without sto...

Madagascar fires its foreign minister for voting against Russia at UN

Madagascar fires its foreign minister for voting against Russia at UN

-- 2022-10-19 18:54:34

Madagascar's president has fired his foreign affairs minister for voting at the United Nations to condemn Russian-organised referendums to annex four partially-occupied regions in Ukraine, two sources...

Congolese NGOs decry mining in main refuge of 'Africa's unicorn'

Congolese NGOs decry mining in main refuge of 'Africa's unicorn'

-- 2022-10-19 15:50:51

Illegal gold mining is destroying tracts of pristine rainforest in Congo's Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site meant to be a haven for the endangered mammal nicknamed Africa's unicorn...

Three UN peacekeepers killed, three injured in Mali attack

Three UN peacekeepers killed, three injured in Mali attack

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-18 10:34:46

Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed and three others seriously injured when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in northern Mali on Monday, a UN spokesperson said, Reuters...

Haiti gang blockade causes catastrophic hunger, UN officials say

Haiti gang blockade causes catastrophic hunger, UN officials say

-- 2022-10-15 16:30:43

Haitians are experiencing catastrophic hunger because of gangsters blockading a major fuel terminal, UN officials said on Friday, with more than 4 million facing acute food insecurity. A coalition of...

Death toll from Nigerian floods tops 500: ministries

Death toll from Nigerian floods tops 500: ministries

-- 2022-10-15 13:49:04

Widespread flooding has killed more than 500 people in Nigeria, left around 90,000 homes under water and blocked food and fuel supplies, two government ministries said on Friday, Reuters reports...

UN experts alarmed by restrictions on civil society ahead of climate summit

UN experts alarmed by restrictions on civil society ahead of climate summit

-- 2022-10-07 17:01:30

Egypt must ensure the safety and full participation of all parts of civil society at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP27) in November, UN human rights e...

Morocco issues first permits for cannabis production

Morocco issues first permits for cannabis production

-- 2022-10-05 17:27:31

A Moroccan state agency has issued the first 10 permits for the use of cannabis in industry and medicine and for export, it said, the result of a law passed last year. Farmers who organise into coope...

Brunei Sultan’s first state visit to Bangladesh carries special significance

Brunei Sultan’s first state visit to Bangladesh carries special significance

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-05 15:28:43

Brunei Darussalam Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah is scheduled for a state visit to Bangladesh from October 14 to 16. "This is going to be the first state visit by the Sultan of Br...

South Africa's rail and port workers to strike this week over wages: Unions

South Africa's rail and port workers to strike this week over wages: Unions

REUTERS 2022-10-04 15:15:56

Workers at South Africa's state-owned logistics firm Transnet will go on strike starting this Thursday over a wage dispute, two labour unions said, in a move that could halt the export of key minera...

Prices of petrol and diesel fall in Sudan: Ministry statement

Prices of petrol and diesel fall in Sudan: Ministry statement

REUTERS 2022-10-04 13:20:11

Petrol prices in Sudan fell on Tuesday from 700 Sudanese pounds to 522 pounds ($0.9235) per litre, the country's energy ministry said in a statement following its monthly pricing review. Diesel price...

Prices of petrol and diesel fall in Sudan

Prices of petrol and diesel fall in Sudan

-- 2022-10-04 12:43:17

Petrol prices in Sudan fell on Tuesday from 700 Sudanese pounds to 522 pounds ($0.9235) per litre, the country's energy ministry said in a statement following its monthly pricing review. Diesel...

Somalia says co-founder of militant group al Shabaab killed

Somalia says co-founder of militant group al Shabaab killed

-- 2022-10-03 19:06:28

Somalia's government said one of the co-founders of Islamist militant group al Shabaab had been killed in a joint operation with international partners over the weekend, while the insurgents claimed r...

Ebola kills physician in Uganda, first health worker killed in latest outbreak

Ebola kills physician in Uganda, first health worker killed in latest outbreak

-- 2022-10-01 18:22:01

A Tanzanian doctor working in Uganda who contracted Ebola has died, the first health worker killed by the disease in the latest outbreak in the country, Uganda's health minister said on Saturday, repo...

Burkina Faso soldiers announce overthrow of military government

Burkina Faso soldiers announce overthrow of military government

-- 2022-10-01 15:41:55

Armed soldiers in fatigues and masks appeared on television in Burkina Faso on Friday night to confirm the ouster of President Paul-Henri Damiba, the second coup in the troubled West African country t...

Heavy gunfire in Burkina Faso capital, soldiers on streets

Heavy gunfire in Burkina Faso capital, soldiers on streets

-- 2022-09-30 17:51:48

Heavy gunfire rang out from the main military camp and some residential areas of Burkina Faso's capital on Friday and a large blast was heard near the presidential palace, Reuters reporters said. Sol...

Sudanese taskforce battles snakes and scorpions during rainy season

Sudanese taskforce battles snakes and scorpions during rainy season

-- 2022-09-29 15:31:28

In Khartoum, specialists from Sudan's Center for Poisonous Species Research are deployed at night in protective vests, gloves, and goggles to catch a snake that residents say has killed a cat, before...

At least 22 killed after two Ugandan army helicopters crash in east Congo

At least 22 killed after two Ugandan army helicopters crash in east Congo

-- 2022-09-28 19:22:57

At least 22 people were killed when two Ugandan military helicopters crashed in east Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, a Congo army spokesman who did not wish to be named told Reuters on Wednes...

Nigeria's northwest faces worsening malnutrition: MSF

Nigeria's northwest faces worsening malnutrition: MSF

REUTERS 2022-09-28 15:09:58

Nigeria faces worsening malnutrition in the northwest due to insecurity, high food prices and the impact of climate change, Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) said on Tuesday, calling for the region to be...

South African teens skip school to chase risky crypto dreams

South African teens skip school to chase risky crypto dreams

-- 2022-09-26 18:45:30

John first heard of cryptocurrency three years ago, when the teenager came across slick YouTube videos and Facebook posts of other South Africans claiming to have become wealthy overnight with bitcoin...

Gang of armed men kills at least 15 people at Nigerian mosque

Gang of armed men kills at least 15 people at Nigerian mosque

-- 2022-09-25 20:53:30

A gang of armed men killed at least 15 people at a mosque in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state, residents said on Saturday. The attack in the Bukkuyum local government area took place during Friday p...

Uganda declares Ebola outbreak after Sudan strain found

Uganda declares Ebola outbreak after Sudan strain found

-- 2022-09-20 14:18:05

An outbreak of Ebola has been declared in Uganda after health authorities confirmed a case of the relatively rare Sudan strain, the health ministry and World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday....

S Africa's President to miss UNGA over power crisis

S Africa's President to miss UNGA over power crisis

-- 2022-09-19 18:37:57

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will miss the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this week, instead returning home from Britain to address a national power crisis, his spokesman told local...

Tunisia hikes cooking gas, fuel prices in bid to cut subsidies

Tunisia hikes cooking gas, fuel prices in bid to cut subsidies

-- 2022-09-18 17:14:45

Tunisia said on Saturday it is raising the price of cooking gas cylinders by 14 per cent and fuel by 3 per cent as part of a plan to reduce energy subsidies, a policy change wanted by the country&rsqu...

William Ruto sworn in as Kenya's fifth president

William Ruto sworn in as Kenya's fifth president

-- 2022-09-13 17:43:14

William Ruto was sworn in as Kenya's fifth president on Tuesday, a week after the Supreme Court upheld an election that dashed the hopes of the nation's most prominent political families and handed po...

Air strike hits Ethiopia's northern Tigray region capital: Hospital official

Air strike hits Ethiopia's northern Tigray region capital: Hospital official

REUTERS 2022-09-13 13:39:48

An air strike hit the capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region on Tuesday, an official at a hospital said. The air strike happened days after Tigray's regional government said it was ready for a...

Mixed feelings among some in Africa for Queen Elizabeth

Mixed feelings among some in Africa for Queen Elizabeth

-- 2022-09-11 17:23:10

As condolences poured in from around the world after Queen Elizabeth's death, there were mixed feelings among some Africans about the monarch and her country's colonial legacy on a continent where Bri...

Islamic State affiliate kills 30 civilians in Mali raid, militia says

Islamic State affiliate kills 30 civilians in Mali raid, militia says

-- 2022-09-11 09:57:34

Members of an Islamic State affiliate in Mali killed about 30 civilians in an attack this week on a town in a violence-plagued area bordering Burkina Faso and Niger, a coalition of pro-governmen...

‘730 children died in Somalia nutrition centres in January-July period’

‘730 children died in Somalia nutrition centres in January-July period’

-- 2022-09-06 17:13:35

Hundreds of children have already died in nutrition centres across Somalia, the UN children's agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, a day after the global body warned that parts of Somalia will be hit by f...