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Egypt goes to polls

Egypt goes to polls

-- 2018-03-26 11:08:05

Egyptians begin three days of voting on Monday to elect a new president in an election expected to produce a landslide for the sitting president. There are few doubts that incumbent Abdul Fattah al-S...

Bomb rocks Egypt city days before election, killing two

Bomb rocks Egypt city days before election, killing two

-- 2018-03-25 14:23:12

Two policemen were killed in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in a bomb attack that targeted the local security chief two days before a presidential election. Five other people were wounded by the b...

13 rebels die in clashes with Congolese army

13 rebels die in clashes with Congolese army

-- 2018-03-25 12:39:16

Congo’s military said it had killed 13 militiamen during clashes with an unidentified group after coming under attack in the country’s volatile northeastern Ituri province. Ituri is the l...

Man could cause extinction of half of African species

Man could cause extinction of half of African species

-- 2018-03-24 21:00:46

The actions of mankind could lead to the extinction of half of African birds and mammals by the end of 2100, a UN-backed study has said. The report conducted by 550 experts from around the world said...

DR Congo refuses to attend donor conference in Geneva

DR Congo refuses to attend donor conference in Geneva

-- 2018-03-24 11:20:06

The Democratic Republic of Congo says it will not attend a donor conference in Geneva next month, complaining the country is being given ‘a bad image’. The meeting aims to raise nearly $1...

Egyptian government launches their own version of Facebook

Egyptian government launches their own version of Facebook

-- 2018-03-23 21:55:58

Egyptian government has launched a social media platform similar to Facebook, called EgFace, says a report on BBC on Friday citing Lebanese news site An-Nahar. The site appears to have been built in...

At least 14 dead in car bomb in Somali capital

At least 14 dead in car bomb in Somali capital

-- 2018-03-22 21:32:43

At least 14 people were killed and 10 others wounded in a car bomb blast near a hotel in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, Somali officials said Thursday. Capt. Mohamed Hussein said the explosion occurre...

Human Rights Watch warns against rush to Libya elections

Human Rights Watch warns against rush to Libya elections

-- 2018-03-22 11:50:55

Libya is not ready to hold free and fair elections, campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned. The country’s rival authorities are planning to hold parliamentary and presidential elect...

Some kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls ‘return home’

Some kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls ‘return home’

-- 2018-03-21 14:37:51

Some of the 110 schoolgirls abducted from the Nigerian town of Dapchi last month have been brought back on Wednesday, two witnesses said. The witnesses said the girls were returned by people they tho...

Somali teen rejects govt job over Al Shabaab fears

Somali teen rejects govt job over Al Shabaab fears

-- 2018-03-21 11:59:21

A sixteen-year-old boy has refused to take the role of deputy commissioner of a regional state in Somalia over security fears. Faysal Abdullahi Omar was to take up the role in Jowhar, the headquarter...

Zimbabwe amnesty: Nation looters still to return $827m

Zimbabwe amnesty: Nation looters still to return $827m

-- 2018-03-20 12:19:19

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has released the names of hundreds of companies and individuals who failed to return $827m (£590m) illegally stashed abroad despite an amnesty. Aft...

Somali clans sign peace deal to end vendetta

Somali clans sign peace deal to end vendetta

-- 2018-03-19 11:44:55

Two rival Somali clans have signed up to a groundbreaking peace deal which aims to end the cycle of revenge killings. Following three weeks of mediation, the rival Sa’ad Yoonis and Ba’iid...

Zimbabwe presidential polls in July

Zimbabwe presidential polls in July

-- 2018-03-18 19:56:43

Zimbabwe's first presidential and parliamentary elections since the end of former strongman Robert Mugabe's long rule will take place in July, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Saturday. The polls...

15 die in Kenya as rains wreak havoc

15 die in Kenya as rains wreak havoc

-- 2018-03-18 15:56:20

At least 15 people were killed and scores injured in heavy rains and flooding, Kenya‘s Daily Nation said on Friday. The rains had pounded parts of the east African nation over three days, the n...

Morocco plans $15.8b spending if it hosts 2026 soccer World Cup

Morocco plans $15.8b spending if it hosts 2026 soccer World Cup

-- 2018-03-18 14:54:41

Morocco has proposed using 14 stadiums and budgeting to spend 15.8 billion dollars on infrastructure if it wins the right to host the World Cup soccer finals in 2026, the country’s bid committee...

Botswana leader denounces Trump for ‘encouraging poaching’

Botswana leader denounces Trump for ‘encouraging poaching’

-- 2018-03-17 11:38:31

The outgoing president of Botswana has attacked his US counterpart Donald Trump for ‘encouraging poaching’ by overturning a ban on the import of hunting trophies. Speaking at an anti-poac...

South Africa charges Jacob Zuma with $2.5b arms deal corruption

South Africa charges Jacob Zuma with $2.5b arms deal corruption

-- 2018-03-16 20:40:57

Former South African president Jacob Zuma was charged with corruption on Friday over a $2.5 billion state arms deal, a stunning judicial ruling on a continent where political ‘Big Men’ rar...

Mauritius PM slams defiant president

Mauritius PM slams defiant president

-- 2018-03-16 15:13:09

Mauritian Prime Minister said on Thursday it is deplorable that the country’s ceremonial president has failed to follow through on an agreement to resign over a scandal triggered by accusations...

Human smuggling: Libya issues warrants for 205 ‘traffickers’

Human smuggling: Libya issues warrants for 205 ‘traffickers’

-- 2018-03-15 13:43:23

Libya has issued 205 arrest warrants for Libyans and foreigners suspected of being involved in a smuggling network for migrants heading to Europe. They include accusations of human trafficking, tortu...

Ethiopia bus plunge takes 38 lives

Ethiopia bus plunge takes 38 lives

-- 2018-03-14 11:34:23

Thirty-eight people have died in Ethiopia after the bus in which they were travelling, plunged off a cliff, officials say. The accident occured in Legambo district in the country’s Amhara regio...

US mulls lifting Chad travel ban, says Tillerson

US mulls lifting Chad travel ban, says Tillerson

-- 2018-03-13 13:32:07

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that Washington was considering lifting a travel ban on Chad, offering an olive branch to an ally in the fight against Islamist militant groups in West Africa....

Congo rival leader to return home for presidential bid

Congo rival leader to return home for presidential bid

-- 2018-03-13 12:45:09

Exiled Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi vowed to return to Democratic Republic of Congo by June to lodge his candidacy for a presidential election to replace President Joseph Kabila, currentl...

Lightning strikes Rwanda church, killing 16

Lightning strikes Rwanda church, killing 16

FE Online Desk 2018-03-12 10:26:20

At least 16 people were killed and 140 others injured in Rwanda when lightning struck a Seventh Day Adventist church in the country's south, a provincial governor says. The churchgoers were injured a...

Hundreds of migrants picked up between Libya and Italy

Hundreds of migrants picked up between Libya and Italy

-- 2018-03-11 11:23:45

International charity ships and Libya’s coastguard picked up several hundred migrants on Saturday as smugglers trying to take advantage of calm seas launched a flurry of boats towards Italy. Li...

Mauritian president to quit over credit card row

Mauritian president to quit over credit card row

-- 2018-03-10 12:17:04

Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Africa’s only female head of state, is to step down over a financial scandal. She has been accused of using a credit card issued by an international non...

Starvation likely to kill 2.0m children in Congo

Starvation likely to kill 2.0m children in Congo

-- 2018-03-09 20:24:25

More than two million children in the Democratic Republic of Congo are at the risk of dying from starvation, said the United Nations on Friday. UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said two million...

Russia eyes diamond, platinum projects in Zimbabwe

Russia eyes diamond, platinum projects in Zimbabwe

-- 2018-03-09 12:50:16

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday his country was pursuing military cooperation with Zimbabwe and looking at opportunities in the diamond sector as well as fully implementing a...

SA’s Cape Town may avoid water shut-off

SA’s Cape Town may avoid water shut-off

-- 2018-03-08 13:37:12

South African city of Cape Town will not have to turn off water supplies if current consumption levels are maintained, the region’s governing party has said. Amid a drought, the city had set a...

Tea trees gaining popularity in Kenya

Tea trees gaining popularity in Kenya

-- 2018-03-07 13:48:40

At Sweet Waters, a village in central Kenya, Veronicah Nyambura stands under the hot sun between two fields. One is full of lush plants - but the other has crops so wilted that their leaves have curle...

Tanzania's herders kill hundreds of lions each year

Tanzania's herders kill hundreds of lions each year

-- 2018-03-06 14:36:08

Herders in Tanzania are killing more than 200 lions every year according to a conservationist at Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute. Dennis Ikanda says given the global status of lions, an interven...