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At least 15 dead in a mass shooting at a bar in Soweto, SA

-- 2022-07-11 11:03:53

At least 15 people have died after a shooting at a bar in the South African (SA) township of Soweto on Sunday, according to the country's public broadcaster SABC. Several people were also injured, lo...

15 die in South African bar shooting

-- 2022-07-10 17:09:19

A mass shooting at a tavern in Johannesburg's Soweto township has killed 15 people and left others in critical condition, according to police. Police say they are investigating reports that a group o...

Assailants kill at least a dozen patients in east Congo clinic

-- 2022-07-08 15:15:58

Assailants killed at least a dozen patients in an attack on a clinic in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo overnight, two witnesses said on Friday, blaming the raid on Islamist fighters allied to...

Ethiopian PM says he has agreed with Sudanese leader to settle dispute

-- 2022-07-06 14:22:20

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the military leader of neighbouring Sudan said on Tuesday they had reached an agreement to peacefully settle all issues, following the most recent flare-up conn...

Zimbabwe to introduce gold coins as local currency tumbles

-- 2022-07-05 20:10:19

Zimbabwe's central bank said it would start selling gold coins this month as a store of value to tame runaway inflation, which has considerably weakened the local currency. The central bank governor...

UN rights mission finds 'probable' mass graves in Libya

-- 2022-07-04 20:37:28

A mission appointed by the UN to Libya said on Monday there are "probable mass graves" yet to be investigated, possibly as many as 100, in a town where hundreds of bodies have already been found, and...

At least 30 Nigerian soldiers killed in ambush after mine attack

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-03 11:43:33

At least 30 Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush after gunmen attacked a mine in the Shiroro area of Niger state earlier this week, three sources said on Saturday. The troops were among securit...

Libyan protesters storm, set fire to parliament building

-- 2022-07-02 23:41:44

Protesters broke into Libya's parliament in Tobruk on Friday evening and set a fire in front of the building to express their anger towards Libya's warring political parties. According to a Reuters r...

20 migrants, who went missing in Libya two weeks ago, found dead

-- 2022-06-29 19:00:51

The bodies of 20 migrants who got lost in the Libyan desert near Chad have been found, the ambulance service said on Wednesday, showing pictures of them lying around a black pickup truck on the sand....

Africa's dream of feeding China hits hard reality

REUTERS 2022-06-28 15:02:15

Watching workers poke avocados from the treetops in an orchard owned by Kenyan agriculture firm Kakuzi, managing director Chris Flowers revels in the thought some might soon go to the crown jewel of e...

Pledge to hasten deal on new pact to conserve biodiversity

-- 2022-06-27 17:14:24

The fourth meeting of the open-ended working group on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework has ended in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, with a pledge to fast-track agreement on a new decades-long...

At least 20 dead in South African club; cause not yet known

-- 2022-06-26 17:17:49

South African police are investigating the deaths of at least 20 people at a nightclub in the coastal town of East London early Sunday morning. It is unclear what led to the deaths of the young peopl...

At least 17 found dead in South Africa nightclub

-- 2022-06-26 15:13:03

At least 17 people have been found dead in a nightclub in South Africa's East London city, local media report. Bodies were found at the Enyobeni Tavern early on Sunday, and reports say severa...

Morocco says 18 migrants died during mass crossing into Spanish enclave

-- 2022-06-25 11:42:33

Morocco said 18 migrants died trying to cross into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla on Friday, after a violent two-hour skirmish between migrants and border officers that also led to scores of...

Prince Charles expresses sorrow over slavery in a speech to Commonwealth leaders

-- 2022-06-24 17:00:47

Britain's Prince Charles expressed deep sorrow over slavery in a speech to Commonwealth leaders in Rwanda on Friday and acknowledged that the roots of the organisation lay in a painful period of histo...

Togo sees Commonwealth entry as pivot to English-speaking world

-- 2022-06-24 13:09:51

Togo's decision to join the Commonwealth will help it develop closer ties with English-speaking countries, opening up new horizons outside of France's sphere of influence in West Africa, the Togolese...

Gunmen kill eight, kidnap 38 from Nigerian church

-- 2022-06-21 17:21:56

Gunmen killed eight people and kidnapped 38 others in an attack on two churches in the northern state of Kaduna on Sunday, an official from the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Monday, w...

Zimbabwe health workers strike after rejecting 100pc pay rise

-- 2022-06-20 19:55:35

Zimbabwean health workers went on strike on Monday after rejecting a 100 per cent wage hike offer last week, pressing their demand for payment in US dollars as the local currency slumps. Zimbabwe's m...

Africa officials urge readiness for monkeypox vaccinations

-- 2022-06-16 18:38:09

The World Health Organisation is procuring thousands of monkeypox tests for Africa and working to ensure the continent has fair access to vaccines should the need arise, WHO Africa Director Matshidiso...

25 shot dead in Nigeria’s Borno state

-- 2022-06-10 21:07:34

Suspected militants killed 25 people on Thursday in a village in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, two residents and a military source said on Friday. An insurgency by Boko Haram and Islamic State...

South Africa road crash leaves 15 dead

-- 2022-06-10 18:00:11

At least 15 people have been killed in a horrific head-on collision that occurred between a truck and a bus on the M17 metropolitan route in Patryshoek, north of Tshwane, said Thabo Charles Mabaso, sp...

Famine risk rises in Somalia as rains fail, food prices soar: UN

-- 2022-06-07 15:00:12

Nearly a quarter of a million people are facing starvation in Somalia as drought worsens and global food prices hover near record highs, United Nations agencies said on Monday. The agencies said a fo...

Ryanair forces South Africans to prove nationality with Afrikaans test

-- 2022-06-06 18:30:38

Ryanair is requiring South African passengers to prove their nationality before travelling by completing a test in Afrikaans, a language used by just by 12 per cent of the population that has long bee...

First monkeypox death recorded in Nigeria; 21 cases confirmed

-- 2022-05-30 19:56:01

Nigeria has recorded its first death from monkeypox this year in a patient with underlying medical conditions, the diseases control agency said. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention...

At least 31 people die in stampede at Nigerian church

-- 2022-05-28 21:08:06

At least 31 people died in Nigeria on Saturday during a stampede at a church in the southern Rivers state, a police spokesperson said. Hundreds of people who had turned up to receive food at the chur...

Mothers confront horror after 11 babies die in Senegal hospital fire

-- 2022-05-26 18:29:06

Diali Kaba's mother woke her up on Thursday morning with terrifying news: there had been a fire at the hospital in their town in Senegal where Kaba's two-week-old daughter was being cared for, and 11...

Senegal president says 11 newborn babies die in hospital fire

-- 2022-05-26 10:17:58

Senegal's President Macky Sall said on Wednesday that 11 newborn babies died in a fire at the neonatal section of a regional hospital in the town of Tivaouane, around 120 km (74.56 miles) east of the...

Militants kill at least 50 in Nigeria's Borno

-- 2022-05-24 11:51:05

At least 50 people were killed by militants on Sunday around the town of Rann in Nigeria's Borno state, in the country's northeastern tip near the border with Cameroon, witnesses told Reuters by phone...

Ex-Somali leader Mohamud wins presidency to face war and drought

-- 2022-05-16 14:13:54

Former Somali leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud won the presidency again in voting by parliamentarians on Sunday in an airport hangar protected by blast walls from Islamist insurgents whom he must now figh...

Somali legislators gather to choose new president

-- 2022-05-15 18:51:10

Somali parliamentarians met on Sunday in a heavily-fortified airport hangar to choose a new president in a vote required to keep foreign aid coming to the impoverished nation tortured by three decades...