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Congo attack leaves 15 UN peacekeepers dead

Congo attack leaves 15 UN peacekeepers dead

Reuters 2017-12-09 10:32:26

Suspected Ugandan rebels killed at least 15 Tanzanian U.N. peacekeepers and wounded 53 others in a raid on a base in Congo that U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called the worst attac...

Zimbabwe ex-minister Chombo gets bail

Zimbabwe ex-minister Chombo gets bail

-- 2017-12-08 12:57:43

Former Zimbabwean finance minister Ignatius Chombo has got bail by High Court Judge Edith Mushore. The judge freed the ousted finance minister on bail on Thursday in a ruling that underlined judicial...

Airstrike hits Somalia's capital, targeting Shabaab

Airstrike hits Somalia's capital, targeting Shabaab

-- 2017-12-07 12:14:58

An air strike hit a village south of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and a local official said the attack targeted Islamist al Shabaab militants fighting to topple the country’s central govern...

Congo human crisis 'worse than middle east’

Congo human crisis 'worse than middle east’

-- 2017-12-07 12:00:00

Conflict has forced 1.7 million people to flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, causing "a mega-crisis", aid agencies say. This means that for the second consecutive year, D...

Listeria outbreak kills dozens in South Africa

Listeria outbreak kills dozens in South Africa

-- 2017-12-06 11:12:32

At least 36 people have died in South Africa after an outbreak of a food borne disease, Listeriosis, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has said. A total of 557 cases had been reported, mostly in the e...

UN peacekeeper dies in CAR militant attack

UN peacekeeper dies in CAR militant attack

-- 2017-12-05 10:37:03

A UN peacekeeper was killed and three others were wounded after the Christian anti-Balaka forces attacked a UN police checkpoint in Central African Republic (CAR), said the United Nations. The attac...

SA, Morocco to restore ties after 13 years

SA, Morocco to restore ties after 13 years

-- 2017-12-04 01:04:57

South Africa and Morocco will resume diplomatic ties more than a decade after Morocco withdrew its ambassador from Pretoria, South African President Jacob Zuma said in a newspaper interview published...

Egyptian lawyer gets prison for inciting rape

Egyptian lawyer gets prison for inciting rape

-- 2017-12-03 11:39:25

An Egyptian court has sentenced a lawyer to three years imprisonment for saying that women who wear ripped jeans should be raped in punishment. Nabih al-Wahsh, a prominent conservative, was also fine...

Zimbabwe truck accident kills 21

Zimbabwe truck accident kills 21

-- 2017-12-03 09:00:46

At least 21 people died in Zimbabwe’s northwest province after a truck carrying 69 people overturned on Saturday evening, police said on Sunday. A police spokesman said several other people wer...

13 Nigerians die in 'Boko Haram suicide attack'

13 Nigerians die in 'Boko Haram suicide attack'

-- 2017-12-02 08:20:56

Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers have killed at least 13 other people in an attack on a market in the northeast Nigerian town of Biu in Borno state, officials said on Saturday. The blasts struck...

Report finds 512 died in Somalia bombing

Report finds 512 died in Somalia bombing

-- 2017-12-02 05:03:56

An emergency committee investigating the terrorist atrocity found that t512 died in an October truck bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu. An earlier death toll of 358 already made the October 14...

Zimbabwe army men get key cabinet jobs

Zimbabwe army men get key cabinet jobs

BBC 2017-12-01 02:48:37

Zimbabwe's new president Emmerson Mnangagwa has named his cabinet, appointing senior military figures to high-profile positions. Mr Mnangagwa has made Sibusiso Moyo, the general who appeared on state...

Tanzania faces country-wide power outage

Tanzania faces country-wide power outage

-- 2017-11-30 03:12:24

Tanzania was hit by a country-wide blackout early on Thursday due to a technical glitch in its national power grid, the country’s state-run electricity monopoly said. “A technical fault ....

Egypt forces shoot dead 11 suspected militants

Egypt forces shoot dead 11 suspected militants

-- 2017-11-29 10:55:30

11 suspected militants have been killed by Egyptian security forces in a shootout near the Sinai, just days after more than 300 people were killed in an attack on a mosque in North Sinai, said the int...

Security tightened over Kenyatta inauguration

Security tightened over Kenyatta inauguration

-- 2017-11-28 12:00:00

Security has been tightened in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, ahead of the inauguration of President Uhuru Kenyatta for a second term in office. More than 20 heads of state or senior ministers are expe...

31 dead in Libya migrant boat capsize

31 dead in Libya migrant boat capsize

BBC 2017-11-26 12:00:00

At least 31 migrants have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Libya on Saturday. They had been trying to cross the Mediterranean along with another boat. Children were among the dead. So...

31 die as boat capsizes off Libya

31 die as boat capsizes off Libya

-- 2017-11-26 12:00:00

At least 31 migrants died after their boat sank off Libya’s western coast and some 200 others were picked up by the coastguard to be brought back to port in Tripoli, officials said. The migrant...

Survivors recall Egypt attack

Survivors recall Egypt attack

AP 2017-11-26 12:00:00

They arrived in five SUVs, took positions across from the mosque’s door and windows, and just as the imam was about to deliver his Friday sermon from atop the pulpit, they opened fire and tossed...

Egypt vows forceful response after deadly attack

Egypt vows forceful response after deadly attack

BBC 2017-11-25 12:00:00

Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has vowed to respond with "the utmost force" after 235 people were killed at a North Sinai mosque during Friday prayers. The al-Rawda mosque in the town of Bir...

Moroccans pray for 'mercy' rain

Moroccans pray for 'mercy' rain

BBC 2017-11-25 02:50:09

The king of Morocco called for all mosques in the country to pray for rain on Friday, amid a shortage threatening the country's agriculture. King Mohammed VI had issued a royal decree asking Moroccan...

Egypt mosque attack: Death toll rises to 235

Egypt mosque attack: Death toll rises to 235

FE Online Desk 2017-11-24 12:00:00

Death toll in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula on Friday rose to at least 235 till the writing of this report. At least 109 people were also injured in the attac...

Mnangagwa to take oath as Zimbabwe president

Mnangagwa to take oath as Zimbabwe president

BBC 2017-11-24 09:50:34

Emmerson Mnangagwa is to be sworn in as Zimbabwe's president, following the dramatic departure of Robert Mugabe after 37 years of authoritarian rule. The former vice-president - who returned from exi...

Mnangagwa becomes Zimbabwe president

Mnangagwa becomes Zimbabwe president

-- 2017-11-24 04:43:38

Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sworn in as Zimbabwe's new leader, following Robert Mugabe's resignation this week after nearly four decades of rule. Mnangagwa, the country's former vice president, swore...

Zimbabwe's Mugabe gets immunity from prosecution

Zimbabwe's Mugabe gets immunity from prosecution

-- 2017-11-23 12:00:00

Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe will not be held liable to prosecution as part of a deal that led to his resignation. He was also assured of safety in his home country as part of the...

Libya deports 124 illegal migrants

Libya deports 124 illegal migrants

-- 2017-11-23 03:21:04

Libya's Anti-Illegal Immigration Department has deported a total of 124 illegal African immigrants from the Libyan capital Tripoli, according to a local official. "The child Mamani returned to her ho...

Zimbabwe's incoming leader thanks public for support

Zimbabwe's incoming leader thanks public for support

-- 2017-11-23 03:18:41

Zimbabwe's incoming president Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday thanked Zimbabweans and the military for their support. In his first public address to supporters upon his return to Zimbabwe from exile,...

50 die in Nigeria mosque bombing

50 die in Nigeria mosque bombing

-- 2017-11-22 12:00:00

A suicide bomber killed at least 50 people in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday in an attack on a mosque which bore the hallmarks of a faction of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. The bombing in...

Mugabe faces impeachment

Mugabe faces impeachment

-- 2017-11-21 12:00:00

The party of Zimbabwe's embattled President Robert Mugabe is to begin moves to impeach him. A Zanu-PF official said a motion to strip him of the presidency would be presented to parliament on Tuesday...

At least 20 die in Nigeria mosque bombing

At least 20 die in Nigeria mosque bombing

-- 2017-11-21 12:00:00

At least 20 people are feared dead after a young suicide bomber detonated his explosives while mingling among the worshippers at a mosque in the northeast Nigerian town of Mubi on early Tuesday, accor...

Mugabe finally resigns

Mugabe finally resigns

-- 2017-11-21 10:55:27

Robert Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe’s president on Tuesday, a week after the army and his former political allies moved against him. Mugabe’s resignation means end of four decades of rule...