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Ethiopia shuts internet amid regional violence

Ethiopia shuts internet amid regional violence

-- 2018-08-08 15:44:07

Authorities have cut off Internet access in eastern Ethiopia amid an outbreak of violence in the region, two local residents said on Wednesday. The residents, one speaking from Oromia region and the...

Nigerian forces block lawmakers from entering parliament

Nigerian forces block lawmakers from entering parliament

-- 2018-08-07 15:57:32

Security forces temporarily blocked the entrance to Nigeria’s parliament on Tuesday, preventing lawmakers and others from entering for up to an hour, witnesses said. Witnesses said armed men we...

Congo opposition leader ‘not giving up”, to stand in election

Congo opposition leader ‘not giving up”, to stand in election

-- 2018-08-06 18:27:07

Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader Moïse Katumbi says he has not given up on his bid to stand in this year’s presidential election. Mr Katumbi was hoping to get into DR Congo,...

Car explodes in Egyptian capital

Car explodes in Egyptian capital

-- 2018-08-06 15:59:56

An explosion destroyed a car near a bridge in central Cairo in Egypt on Monday after a collision, a health ministry spokesman said. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast. Two security so...

Car bomb blasts kill six in Somalia

Car bomb blasts kill six in Somalia

-- 2018-08-06 11:36:06

Two car bombs hit Somalia on Sunday, killing six people. Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels claimed responsibility for the first suicide car bomb blast that that killed four people when it exploded n...

Ethiopian soldiers clash with Somali police force

Ethiopian soldiers clash with Somali police force

-- 2018-08-05 11:32:50

Ethiopian soldiers have clashed with a local police force in the restive Somali region, with the defence ministry saying it will "take the necessary measures" to restore order. Witnesses say the figh...

Ethiopia’s Abiy appoints team to advise govt on privatisation

Ethiopia’s Abiy appoints team to advise govt on privatisation

-- 2018-08-04 14:00:58

Ethiopia’s prime minister has appointed a team to advise his government on the privatisation of state-owned enterprises, his chief of staff said, as part of reforms the new leader has instituted...

Newly elected Zimbabwean president calls for unity

Newly elected Zimbabwean president calls for unity

-- 2018-08-04 13:44:37

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said he will be a leader for all Zimbabweans in a call for unity after rows broke out over his election victory. He appealed for peace and promised an independent inv...

Mnangagwa wins Zimbabwe's first post-Mugabe poll

Mnangagwa wins Zimbabwe's first post-Mugabe poll

-- 2018-08-03 11:36:36

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday won a election as the ruling party maintained control of the government in the first vote since the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe. The former s...

Business shut down in Zimbabwe, army on patrol

Business shut down in Zimbabwe, army on patrol

-- 2018-08-02 19:23:16

Businesses have shut in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, as the nation awaits the release of heavily disputed presidential election results. Armed soldiers and police are on patrol, ordering people to "be...

Ethiopia's exiled Bishop returns

Ethiopia's exiled Bishop returns

-- 2018-08-02 19:22:10

The exiled patriarch of Ethiopia's powerful Orthodox Church, Bishop Merkorios, has returned home to the capital, Addis Ababa, after 27 years. Ethiopia's reformist Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, met him...

WHO’s Ebola team arrives in Congo

WHO’s Ebola team arrives in Congo

-- 2018-08-02 19:15:35

An international delegation has arrived in the town of Beni in Democratic Republic of Congo, 30 km (18 miles) from where an Ebola outbreak was declared, said the World Health Organization on Thursday....

Three die in Zimbabwe troops, protesters clash

Three die in Zimbabwe troops, protesters clash

-- 2018-08-02 11:00:11

Zimbabwe police said three people were killed in Harare on Wednesday as soldiers dispersed stone-throwing opposition supporters who accused the ruling party of trying to rig Monday’s presidentia...

Zimbabwe ruling party wins majority of seats in parliament

Zimbabwe ruling party wins majority of seats in parliament

-- 2018-08-01 13:12:53

Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party won the majority of seats in parliament after sweeping rural constituencies by huge margins, official results showed on Wednesday, setting the stage for President...

Zimbabwe's president, rival both confident of election win

Zimbabwe's president, rival both confident of election win

-- 2018-07-31 14:28:39

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main opponent, Nelson Chamisa, both said on Tuesday they were confident of victory in an election the previous day which observers deemed too earl...

Zimbabweans vote in first election since Mugabe's removal

Zimbabweans vote in first election since Mugabe's removal

-- 2018-07-30 10:06:24

Zimbabweans go to the polls on Monday in the first election since the removal of Robert Mugabe, a watershed vote they hope will rid the country of its global pariah status and spark a recovery in its...

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe rejects Mnangagwa in election

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe rejects Mnangagwa in election

-- 2018-07-29 18:46:40

Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe on Sunday emerged to address the nation for the first time since stepping down in November and just hours before Monday’s historic election, declarin...

Malians vote in presidential election

Malians vote in presidential election

-- 2018-07-29 12:02:33

Malian voters were due to decide on Sunday on whether or not to give President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita a second term, despite widespread ethnic and jihadist violence that has dramatically worsened sinc...

Tweets scorn Egypt's Sisi in renewed online criticism

Tweets scorn Egypt's Sisi in renewed online criticism

-- 2018-07-29 09:25:08

Egyptians renewed online criticism of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday, hours after he said he was “saddened” by a similar campaign a few weeks ago. The Twitter hashtag “L...

Egyptian zoo comes under criticism for painting donkeys like zebras

Egyptian zoo comes under criticism for painting donkeys like zebras

-- 2018-07-28 18:47:02

An Egyptian zoo has come under criticism after being accused of painting donkeys to make them look like zebras. The zoo in Nasr City has denied the allegation but Mahmoud Sarhan, a recent high school...

Pence meets with Ethiopian PM, praises reform efforts

Pence meets with Ethiopian PM, praises reform efforts

-- 2018-07-28 12:12:27

US Vice President Mike Pence met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Friday and praised “the historic reform efforts” undertaken by Abiy since assuming power in April, the White Ho...

Malians to elect president amid spiralling violence

Malians to elect president amid spiralling violence

-- 2018-07-27 16:35:02

In the five years since Malians last chose a president, they’ve suffered violence from Islamist militants, Tuareg separatists, drug traffickers, ethnic vigilantes and Malian security forces. Ye...

S Africa opens door to future Russian nuke deal

S Africa opens door to future Russian nuke deal

-- 2018-07-26 16:05:39

South African cannot afford large-scale expansion of its nuclear power fleet but would still be open to future nuclear deals with Russia, a ruling party leader said. The African National Congress&rsq...

Congo declares end of Ebola outbreak

Congo declares end of Ebola outbreak

-- 2018-07-24 19:45:41

Democratic Republic of Congo’s health ministry on Tuesday declared that Ebola outbreak is over, believed to have killed 33 people, after 42 days with no new cases, reports Reuters. The outbreak...

Kenya demolishes slum of 30,000 to make new road

Kenya demolishes slum of 30,000 to make new road

-- 2018-07-24 13:31:29

The homes of about 30,000 people have been demolished in a Kenyan slum to make way for a new $20m (£15m) dual carriage way in the capital Nairobi. The residents, living in part of the city's la...

Suicide attack hits Nigerian mosque, 11 dead

Suicide attack hits Nigerian mosque, 11 dead

-- 2018-07-23 19:11:08

At least 11 dead bodies were evacuated following a suicide attack on a local mosque in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno early Monday. Eight others were wounded in the attack at about 5:15 am in...

Somalia’s al Shabaab storms army base, killing 27 soldiers

Somalia’s al Shabaab storms army base, killing 27 soldiers

-- 2018-07-23 11:22:14

Somalia’s al Shabaab group said on Monday its fighters had attacked a military base in the south of the country, killing 27 soldiers. “We first attacked the base with a suicide car bomb a...

Gunmen shoot dead 11 taxi drivers in South Africa

Gunmen shoot dead 11 taxi drivers in South Africa

-- 2018-07-22 12:52:56

Gunmen have shot dead 11 taxi drivers returning to Johannesburg in South Africa from the funeral of a colleague in Kwa-Zulu Natal, a police spokesman said on Sunday. The drivers, who were members of...

‘N Korea, Eritrea account highest rates of modern slavery’

‘N Korea, Eritrea account highest rates of modern slavery’

-- 2018-07-20 14:54:46

North Korea and Eritrea have the world’s highest rates of modern slavery, said a global survey on Thursday that highlighted how conflict and government repression are the main drivers of a crime...

Ethiopia appoints ambassador to Eritrea

Ethiopia appoints ambassador to Eritrea

-- 2018-07-19 15:47:09

Ethiopia has appointed its first ambassador to Eritrea in two decades in the latest sign of rapprochement after a border war, the state-affiliated Fana news agency said on Thursday. An online report...