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Mali’s president Keita confirms re-election bid

Mali’s president Keita confirms re-election bid

-- 2018-05-29 13:15:02

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced on state TV that he would run for re-election in a poll scheduled for the end of July. Keita, 73, had been widely expected to run for a second...

Egypt arrests prominent rival leader

Egypt arrests prominent rival leader

-- 2018-05-28 11:24:21

Egypt’s state security prosecutors ordered that a prominent opposition leader, Hazim Abdelazim, be detained for 15 days pending investigation over joining an illegal organisation and publishing...

Dozens die in Cameroon’s Anglophone region

Dozens die in Cameroon’s Anglophone region

-- 2018-05-27 11:18:17

More than two dozen people have been killed in one of Cameroon’s Anglophone regions, local sources said on Saturday, although the exact circumstances of their deaths were not immediately clear....

Uganda bus crash kills at least 22

Uganda bus crash kills at least 22

-- 2018-05-26 19:51:58

At least 22 people, including three children, have been killed in a bus crash in northern Uganda, police said. The bus hit a tractor that was driving with no lights at night and then a truck, says a...

Cameroon court jails seven Anglophone separatists

Cameroon court jails seven Anglophone separatists

-- 2018-05-26 11:05:09

A court in Cameroon convicted seven activists from the country’s Anglophone minority of rebellion and acts of terrorism and gave them sentences ranging from 10 to 15 years, a defence lawyer said...

River boat capsize kills 49 in Congo: Official

River boat capsize kills 49 in Congo: Official

-- 2018-05-25 13:25:37

A boat tipped over in a river in northern Democratic Republic of Congo, drowning 49 people on board while about the same number survived the accident, a local official told a Congolese radio station....

Car bomb blast claims seven lives in Benghazi, Libya

Car bomb blast claims seven lives in Benghazi, Libya

-- 2018-05-25 12:56:02

At least seven people were killed and 10 wounded when a car bomb exploded on a busy street in the centre of the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday night, a hospital medic said. The bomb expl...

Amnesty accuses Nigerian troops of ‘starving women rape’

Amnesty accuses Nigerian troops of ‘starving women rape’

-- 2018-05-24 16:43:29

Nigerian soldiers have raped women and girls who fled the insurgency by militant Islamist group Boko Haram, Amnesty International has said. Troops separated women from their husbands and raped them,...

SA kidnappers demand bitcoin ransom for abducted teen

SA kidnappers demand bitcoin ransom for abducted teen

-- 2018-05-23 14:41:56

A criminal gang in South Africa who kidnapped a teenage boy on Sunday are demanding a ransom in bitcoin cryptocurrency of nearly $120,000, police said. Katlego Marite, 13, was dragged into a car whil...

Ghana president calls for criminal probe into head of soccer body

Ghana president calls for criminal probe into head of soccer body

-- 2018-05-23 14:18:52

Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo has called for a criminal investigation into the head of the country’s football association, Kwesi Nyantakyi, for fraudulently using the President’s name....

Burundi’s Nkurunziza to stay in power till 2034

Burundi’s Nkurunziza to stay in power till 2034

-- 2018-05-22 14:39:14

Voters in Burundi have overwhelmingly approved a new constitution, the electoral commission said on Monday, ushering in changes that could let the president stay in power to 2034. An opposition coali...

Brazil’s coast guard rescues two dozen African migrants

Brazil’s coast guard rescues two dozen African migrants

-- 2018-05-21 11:31:18

A boat with two dozen migrants from West Africa was rescued off the coast of northern Brazil, officials from the state of Maranhão said on Sunday. A fishing boat came upon the drifting vessel...

Egypt detains prominent socialist activist

Egypt detains prominent socialist activist

-- 2018-05-20 12:42:05

Egypt’s state security prosecutor on Saturday ordered a prominent activist detained for 15 days for investigation on charges of involvement with a banned group and inciting and taking part in il...

Comoros puts ex-president under house arrest

Comoros puts ex-president under house arrest

-- 2018-05-20 10:59:18

Comoros has put former President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi under house arrest just days after he was questioned over his role in a scheme to sell citizenship that investigators say was riddled with...

WHO holds emergency meeting over Ebola outbreak in Congo

WHO holds emergency meeting over Ebola outbreak in Congo

-- 2018-05-18 21:21:01

The World Health Organization (WHO) is to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the risk of Ebola spreading from the Democratic Republic of Congo. A panel will decide on Friday whether to declare a &l...

Killing, rape during Burundi referendum campaign

Killing, rape during Burundi referendum campaign

-- 2018-05-18 15:01:09

At least 15 people were killed and six were raped during a referendum campaign in Burundi that could let President Pierre Nkurunziza hold power until 2034, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Security...

Kenyan lecturers end strike after compromised deal

Kenyan lecturers end strike after compromised deal

-- 2018-05-18 12:51:57

Kenya’s public university lecturers have ended a strike over low pay after reaching an agreement with authorities, a union official said, allowing classes to resume after being suspended since...

Egypt to keep Rafah crossing with Gaza open in Ramadan

Egypt to keep Rafah crossing with Gaza open in Ramadan

-- 2018-05-18 11:59:23

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has decided to keep the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Palestinian Gaza Strip open during the holy month of Ramadan. "I have made directions to keep th...

Ebola spreading fast in DR Congo

Ebola spreading fast in DR Congo

-- 2018-05-17 12:23:25

The Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread from the countryside into a city, prompting fears that the disease will be increasingly difficult to control. Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed a cas...

Congo park blocks tourist entry after kidnapping

Congo park blocks tourist entry after kidnapping

-- 2018-05-16 12:03:02

Rangers said they had stopped tourists entering Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park during investigations into the kidnapping of two Britons there last week. Gunmen ambushed Ro...

Egypt orders detention of 20 metro protesters

Egypt orders detention of 20 metro protesters

-- 2018-05-15 10:52:44

Egypt’s state security prosecutor ordered the detention of 20 people for 15 days pending an investigation into their roles in protests at Cairo metro stations last week after the government rais...

Libya to return bodies of 20 beheaded Egyptians

Libya to return bodies of 20 beheaded Egyptians

-- 2018-05-14 12:43:43

Libya will return to Egypt on Monday the bodies of 20 Egyptian Christians killed in 2015 by Islamic State in its former Libyan stronghold of Sirte, a Libyan security official said. The bodies were re...

Attackers kill 26 in Burundi ahead of referendum

Attackers kill 26 in Burundi ahead of referendum

-- 2018-05-13 12:38:02

At least 26 people were killed and seven others wounded in an attack in Burundi’s northwestern province of Cibitoke, less than a week before a constitutional referendum, a local administrator an...

Congo sentences ex-army boss to 20 years in prison

Congo sentences ex-army boss to 20 years in prison

-- 2018-05-12 10:57:39

A court in Congo Republic sentenced ex-army chief and opposition presidential candidate Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko to 20 years in prison on Friday on charges of violating state security and illegal poss...

Kenyan dam built illegally, says water authority

Kenyan dam built illegally, says water authority

-- 2018-05-11 20:44:15

The Kenyan dam which burst, killing more than 40 people, was illegal, the country's water authority said on Friday. The dam is one of a number on a sprawling farm near Solai, 190km (120 miles) from t...

Death toll from Kenya dam wall collapse climbs to 47

Death toll from Kenya dam wall collapse climbs to 47

-- 2018-05-11 09:48:40

The death toll from flooding caused by a burst dam wall in Kenya’s Rift Valley rose to 47 on Thursday and could go higher as more bodies are pulled from the mud, the local police chief said on T...

21 killed in Kenya dam bursts

21 killed in Kenya dam bursts

-- 2018-05-10 16:34:45

A dam burst in Kenya after weeks of torrential rain, unleashing a torrent of water that smashed into two villages killing at least 21 people and causing ‘huge destruction’, rescue services...

Al-Shabab stones Somali woman to death for polyandry

Al-Shabab stones Somali woman to death for polyandry

-- 2018-05-10 11:42:05

A woman has been stoned to death in Somalia after a court run by al-Shabab convicted her of having several husbands, the militant group says. Shukri Abdullahi Warsame was accused of marrying 11 times...

Ebola returns to Congo; 17 dead

Ebola returns to Congo; 17 dead

-- 2018-05-09 16:04:22

At least 17 people have died in an area of north-western Democratic Republic of Congo where health officials have now confirmed an outbreak of Ebola, the health ministry said on Tuesday. It is the ni...

Somali extremists kill nine Kenyan soldiers

Somali extremists kill nine Kenyan soldiers

-- 2018-05-08 10:08:41

Extremists carried out an attack on Kenyan soldiers’ patrol car in Somalia, leaving nine troops dead, says Kenya’s president. President Uhuru Kenyatta mourned the soldiers who were killed...