All posts tagged "Africa News"
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2.5KAfricaCeasefire shaky as Sudanese, foreigners flee
The fighting has killed hundreds of people and left some neighbourhoods of greater Khartoum in ruins, prompting thousands of foreigners and Sudanese...
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661AfricaSuspected jihadists kill 42 in Burkina Faso
The army said the death toll was 40 with eight soldiers and 32 defence volunteers, adding that "at least 50 terrorists" were...
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680AfricaSouth African taxman says President’s stolen dollars ‘undeclared’
Presdient Ramaphosa said the $580,000 he has said was payment for 20 buffalo bought by a Sudanese businessman three years ago
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1.2KAfricaTinubu declared winner of Nigeria’s election as opposition calls for re-vote
According to the country's constitution, in order to have the election judged invalid, the opposition will need to prove the national electoral...
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1.1KAfricaNigeria awaits results after tight election
The commission has 14 days to officially announce results, but the online tally should be made available over the next few days.
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953AfricaOver 300 dead in east DR Congo grave massacre
Around 300 people died in an attack on villagers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week blamed on the M23 rebel...
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1.2KAfricaTeodoro Obiang wins sixth term as E.Guinea ruler
Obiang, 80, who seized power in a 1979 coup, is the longest-ruling head of state in the world excluding monarchs. He has...
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679AfricaSOMALIA: Gov’t bans use of the name al-Shabab
It is not the first time the Somali government has coined another name for al-Shabab. In 2015 the government told the media...
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1.1KAfricaThousands protest Rwanda, Uganda in eastern DR Congo city
Protesters chanted for weapons to fight Rwanda, as well as slogans hostile to Uganda, which some also accuse of backing the M23.
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828AfricaDeath toll from Sudan floods hits 112
The crisis comes as Sudan reels from deepening political unrest and a spiralling economic crisis exacerbated by last year's military coup led...
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807AfricaAngola’s opposition office ‘attacked’ amid political tensions
Opposition coalition force UNITA, has challenged the results of last week election, which saw the long-ruling MPLA win, though by a significantly...
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953AfricaAngola’s opposition rejects initial poll results
The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which has ruled the oil-rich nation for nearly five decades, has claimed a...
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1.0KAfricaDR Congo asks UN peacekeeping mission spokesman to leave country
The central African nation's government asked the peacekeeping mission, known as MONUSCO, to withdraw spokesman Mathias Gillmann over "indelicate and inappropriate remarks"...
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1.0KAfrica20 Young People Die Mysteriously in South African Tavern
Siyanda Manana, a spokesperson for the Eastern Cape provincial health department, said the bodies were being transported to state mortuaries and autopsies...
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1.2KAfricaBiden approves plan to redeploy forces into Somalia
The New York Times reported that Biden also approved a plan to target about a dozen suspected leaders of al-Shabab.
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1.4KAfricaProtests rock Nigerian city after blasphemy killing of student
Deborah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education was on Thursday stoned to death by a mob of Muslim students...
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1.1KAfrica30 Burundian AU soldiers Killed in al-Shabaab attack in Somalia
A Burundian official told VOA Somali said what caught soldiers by surprise was the enormity of explosives detonated at the camp, adding...
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1.0KAfricaCameroon: Cholera Outbreak kills 29 in one week
Since October 2021, the cholera epidemic has claimed 62 lives with nearly 2,100 cases reported.
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1.2KAfricaGuinea-Bissau president sacks navy chief, army general
On February 1, heavily armed men attacked government buildings in the capital Bissau while President Umaro Sissoco Embalo was chairing a cabinet...
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957AfricaAfrica, EU to Meet After Rifts Over COVID Vaccines
Leaders from the two continents will meet in Brussels to discuss, among other things, the reaction to the pandemic and helping Africa...
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1.1KAfrica26 killed in DR Congo market by high-voltage cable
Videos circulating on social media showed corpses slumped over market stalls with their legs immersed in muddy water, in some cases up...
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1.1KAfricaAfter coups in Mali and Burkina Faso, will Niger be next?
Some scholars predict that Niger could go the way of its neighbours and others are going so far as to urge the...
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1.3KAfricaOusted Mali President Boubacar Keita dies at 76
Known by his initials IBK, Keita ran the West African country from September 2013 until August 2020, during which Islamist insurgents overran...
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1.6KAfricaPresident fires security minister for alleged misbehaviour
In a terse statement issued Monday, president said he had fired the minister with immediate effect for misconduct deemed inappropriate for a...