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Tunisia’s Ennahda tops landmark municipal polls

-- 2018-05-07 11:30:09

Tunisia’s Islamist Ennahda party claimed victory late on Sunday in the country’s first free municipal elections, a key step in a democratic transition marred by economic disappointment. A...

Bandit attack on Nigerian village leaves 51 dead

-- 2018-05-07 10:49:42

A gang of what are said to be former cattle rustlers has killed at least 51 adults and children in a village in northern Nigeria, burning down homes. Amongst the rows of dead bodies in Gwaska, in the...

Mnangagwa calls for party unity to ensure ‘thunderous’ win

-- 2018-05-05 11:05:17

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa urged his party to unite after disputed internal polls, saying this will ensure a ‘thunderous’ win in elections set for July, which would allow a ZANU...

Gunmen kidnap German nurse in Somalia

-- 2018-05-03 15:58:00

A German nurse working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was kidnapped in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, the aid group said. She was seized by unknown armed men from inside...

IS militants storm Libya election commission, killing 12

-- 2018-05-03 11:23:14

Suicide bombers stormed the head offices of Libya’s electoral commission in Tripoli, killing at least 12 people and setting fire to the building. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State mil...

C Africa church attack claims 15 lives

-- 2018-05-02 10:20:44

At least 15 people, including a priest, have been killed in an attack on a church in the Central African Republic (CAR). Gunmen armed with grenades targeted the Notre-Dame de Fatima church in the cap...

Blasts at Nigeria mosque kill 24

-- 2018-05-01 22:30:06

At least 24 people are reported to have been killed in suicide bomb blasts in the north-east Nigerian town of Mubi. The explosions happened in and around a mosque as Muslims were preparing for aftern...

Icebergs can help solve SA water crisis, say Marine experts

-- 2018-05-01 14:59:50

Marine salvage experts are floating a plan to tug icebergs from Antarctica to South Africa’s drought-hit Cape Town to help solve the region’s worst water shortage in a century. Salvage ma...

10 S Sudan aid workers released a week after abduction

-- 2018-05-01 11:06:14

Ten aid workers who went missing in South Sudan last week have been freed from an armed group that detained them in the Yei region southwest of the capital, the International Committee of the Red Cros...

Plane crashes near oil field in Libya, killing three

-- 2018-04-30 10:12:16

Three crew members of a transport plane have lost their lives after the aircraft crashed near one of the largest Libyan oil fields, says Libya’s oil agency. A statement by the National Oil Corp...

Egyptian court jails 13 cops for taking part in strike

-- 2018-04-29 11:46:06

An Egyptian court has sentenced 13 policemen to between three and five years in prison for taking part in a 2015 strike demanding higher pay and better working conditions. Eleven were sentenced to th...

‘Jihadist attacks’ leave 40 Tuaregs dead in Mali

-- 2018-04-29 10:02:39

Suspected jihadists killed 40 Tuaregs, mostly young men, in two attacks in northern Mali’s Menaka region, which the local governor said seemed calculated to spark an ethnic conflict between Tuar...

47 drown fleeing Congo clashes

-- 2018-04-28 10:44:49

At least 47 people drowned when their boat capsized as they fled clashes between soldiers in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo and armed men who had crossed the border from neighboring Congo...

Nigeria military repels Boko Haram attack

-- 2018-04-27 15:07:45

Nigerian forces repelled an attack by Boko Haram militants in the northeast city of Maiduguri on Thursday, the military said in a statement, the second such clash in a month. Blasts and gunfire were...

S Sudan president rejects calls to step down

-- 2018-04-26 13:10:11

South Sudan President Salva Kiir has rejected opposition calls for him to resign as part of efforts to end a civil war, accusing anti-government groups of making ‘unreasonable demands’ in...

Nigeria church attack leaves 16 dead

-- 2018-04-25 13:30:46

Semi-nomadic herdsmen armed with guns carried out an attack on a church congregation in a central state of Nigeria, killing 16 people on Tuesday, said police. Hundreds of people have died in clashes...

Angola fires army chief, spy boss in anti-graft move

-- 2018-04-24 11:58:29

Angolan President Joao Lourenco sacked the chief of staff of the armed forces and the head of the foreign intelligence agency on Monday, his latest moves against officials tainted by graft allegations...

Thousands protest against new election laws in Madagascar

-- 2018-04-23 16:37:35

Thousands marched in Madagascar’s capital on Monday to protest against new electoral laws and the death of a person in a similar march at the weekend, said a witness. On Saturday, police fired...

Uganda plans tax on social media use

-- 2018-04-22 18:33:25

Uganda plans to slap a new tax on social media users from July this year to raise revenue. Local human rights activists denounced the move as another attempt by the country's President Yoweri Museven...

‘Terrorist group’ attack crude oil pipeline in Libya

-- 2018-04-22 10:53:08

A Libyan crude pipeline owned by the al-Waha oil company, feeding the port of Es Sider, was set on fire on Saturday causing the loss of between 70,000 barrels per day and 100,000 bpd, state firm NOC s...

SA’s Ramaphosa cuts UK visit short to deal with protests

-- 2018-04-21 11:44:04

South Africa’s president has cut short a visit to Britain to return home and deal with violent protests in a provincial capital. President Cyril Ramaphosa left the Commonwealth summit in London...

Kenya suspends land allocation as nine injured in attacks

Reuters 2018-04-20 15:31:00

Kenya suspended a land distribution programme on Thursday after nine people were shot or attacked with crude weapons in six days, with local officials facing investigation for their role. Land minist...

Eastern Libya army chief survives bomb attack; one dead

-- 2018-04-19 12:14:34

A car bomb hit a convoy of the chief of staff of the eastern Libyan military outside Benghazi, leaving one person dead and at least two others wounded, security and military officials said. Abdel-Raz...

Nigerian cops fire teargas at Shi’ite Muslim protesters

-- 2018-04-18 11:49:28

Nigerian police fired teargas at hundreds of Shi’ite Muslim protesters on Tuesday during a second day of clashes in the capital Abuja over the imprisonment of their religious leader, witnesses s...

Kenya election officials resign, pressure mounts on chairman

-- 2018-04-17 11:55:06

Three Kenyan election officials resigned on Monday, increasing chaos at the electoral Commission following last year’s botched presidential vote that had to be rerun and was then boycotted by th...

Somaliland jails poet over Somalia unity calls

-- 2018-04-16 11:38:51

A court in the self-declared republic of Somaliland has sentenced a young poet to three years in jail. Nacima Qorane was found guilty of bringing the state into contempt by advocating for Somaliland...

Bitter rivals’ handshake stirs up Kenyan politics

-- 2018-04-15 19:58:00

A surprise handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga has stirred up Kenyan politics as the long-time rivals set their sights on the 2022 elections. Less than a yea...

Mali militant attack kills one, injures 10

-- 2018-04-15 11:27:54

Militants disguised as UN peacekeepers exploded two suicide car bombs and fired dozens of rockets at the French and United Nations bases in Mali’s northern city of Timbuktu on Saturday, killing...

Eight Egyptian soldiers die in militant attack

-- 2018-04-14 20:25:48

Eight Egyptian soldiers and 14 militants were killed in fighting when gunmen carrying explosive belts and grenades targeted a military checkpoint in central Sinai on Saturday. The attack was the larg...

Winnie Mandela to be laid to rest

-- 2018-04-14 16:42:15

SOWETO, South Africa: Thousands of mourners gathered in South Africa’s Soweto township on Saturday to bid farewell to anti-apartheid heroine Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a funeral ceremony that...