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S Sudan rebels release 15 prisoners

S Sudan rebels release 15 prisoners

-- 2018-01-29 15:03:02

A South Sudanese rebel group released 15 army soldiers it had been holding to The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in line with a ceasefire agreed by the government and rebel groups la...

Libya tribal fighting leaves three dead

Libya tribal fighting leaves three dead

-- 2018-01-29 11:45:22

Three people have been killed during a retaliatory tribal fighting in the southern Libyan city of Sabha, said a source of the Security Directorate of Sabha. The source told Xinhua on Sunday, "Three p...

Attack on Mali army camp leaves 14 soldiers dead

Attack on Mali army camp leaves 14 soldiers dead

-- 2018-01-28 12:00:02

At least 14 soldiers have been killed and 17 wounded after some unidentified gunmen overran a military camp near Timbuktu in northern Mali early on Saturday, two army officers said. One of the source...

Algerian army ambush leaves seven dead

Algerian army ambush leaves seven dead

-- 2018-01-27 12:53:15

Algeria’s troops have killed seven armed men have been killed in Khenchela province, 700 km east of the capital Algiers, the Defence Ministry said. The unidentified men described as “dang...

Turn off toilet taps to ease water crisis: SA govt

Turn off toilet taps to ease water crisis: SA govt

-- 2018-01-27 01:37:51

Residents in the South African city of Cape Town have been warned to "save water as if your life depends on it" to avoid the supply being shut off. A severe drought has forced the city's municipality...

Trump takes U-turn, tells ‘deeply respects’ African leaders

Trump takes U-turn, tells ‘deeply respects’ African leaders

-- 2018-01-27 00:00:00

President Donald Trump has said he “deeply respects” the people of Africa in the wake of his reported “s***hole countries” comments. The US president said this in a letter to...

Zimbabwe university finally releases Grace Mugabe's PhD thesis

Zimbabwe university finally releases Grace Mugabe's PhD thesis

-- 2018-01-26 03:47:42

The University of Zimbabwe has published former First Lady Grace Mugabe’s PhD thesis after an anti-corruption watchdog said it was investigating whether the wife of ousted President Robert Mugab...

Egypt’s Sisi in ‘uncontested’ presidential race

Egypt’s Sisi in ‘uncontested’ presidential race

-- 2018-01-25 11:17:12

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s last main challenger for the presidency pulled out on Wednesday, saying any hope of a new start for Egypt had ended in a race that is all but certain to deliver the leader...

Libya twin car bombing takes more than 30 lives

Libya twin car bombing takes more than 30 lives

-- 2018-01-24 11:18:43

At least 33 people have been killed and dozens more wounded including senior security figures and civilians, in a double car bombing in the east Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday. Officials said the...

Liberia swears in ex-footballer Weah as president

Liberia swears in ex-footballer Weah as president

-- 2018-01-23 11:25:51

Former international footballer George Weah has been sworn in as president of Liberia. "I have spent many years of my life in stadiums, but today is a feeling like no other," President Weah told crow...

Police shoot dead seven festival goers in Ethiopia

Police shoot dead seven festival goers in Ethiopia

-- 2018-01-22 12:26:12

Clashes during a religious festival in Ethiopia's northern Amhara regional state have taken the lives of seven people, a regional official said Sunday. Amare Goshu, Head of North Wollo Zone Police De...

Five die in Congo anti-Kabila protests

Five die in Congo anti-Kabila protests

-- 2018-01-22 11:54:54

At least five people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo during demonstrations on Sunday across the country against delayed elections and the continuation of Joseph Kabila’s pre...

Tunisian forces kill top aide of Al Qaeda leader

Tunisian forces kill top aide of Al Qaeda leader

-- 2018-01-21 12:55:26

Tunisian security forces have killed a top aide of Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, the leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), an official source told Reuters. Tunisia has been on high alert si...

Nigerian police confirm release of abducted expatriates

Nigerian police confirm release of abducted expatriates

-- 2018-01-21 12:19:49

Two Americans and two Canadians have been freed after being kidnapped in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna, a police spokesman said on Saturday, as it emerged that five oil workers had been abduct...

SA ruling party to force Zuma to step down- eNCA TV

SA ruling party to force Zuma to step down- eNCA TV

-- 2018-01-21 11:25:47

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) declined to comment on a report its executive planned to force Jacob Zuma to quit as president, as its leaders gather to outline the party&r...

Musuveni may restart signing death warrants

Musuveni may restart signing death warrants

-- 2018-01-20 12:00:00

Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni may resume signing off on death sentences after a long hiatus to help stem a wave of crime, he said on Twitter in comments that were quickly denounced by rights activist...

Sudan detains Reuters, AFP reporters in Khartoum

Sudan detains Reuters, AFP reporters in Khartoum

Reuters 2018-01-19 11:56:46

Sudanese authorities have detained a Reuters stringer and an AFP reporter who were covering protests in the capital Khartoum, the external information council, which deals with foreign media organisat...

EU suspends Kenya water project funding

EU suspends Kenya water project funding

-- 2018-01-18 12:54:08

The European Union is suspending funding for a water conservation project in Kenya after a tribesman was shot and killed by government forest service guards and another seriously wounded, the EU annou...

Zimbabwe to hold elections soon, says President

Zimbabwe to hold elections soon, says President

-- 2018-01-18 12:45:54

Zimbabwe will hold elections in four to five months, a newspaper on Thursday quoted President Emmerson Mnangagwa as saying, the first time since independence the southern African state will conduct a...

Gunmen abduct four expatriates in Nigeria

Gunmen abduct four expatriates in Nigeria

-- 2018-01-18 11:26:13

Two American and two Canadian citizens have been kidnapped near the northern city of Kaduna, Nigeria, police say. Two police escorts were also killed in a shootout with the kidnappers, who emerged fr...

Nigeria suicide bombing claims lives of 12

Nigeria suicide bombing claims lives of 12

-- 2018-01-18 09:55:51

Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers killed 12 people and injured 48 others in an attack on Wednesday on the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, officials from the State Emergency Management Agen...

Nigeria releases 244 ‘Boko Haram’ militants

Nigeria releases 244 ‘Boko Haram’ militants

-- 2018-01-17 10:59:35

Nigerian military has released 244 "repentant" Boko Haram suspects who have undergone rehabilitation. The authorities say they have been de-radicalised and can re-enter society, but critics are scept...

H&M model’s family moves house over security concerns

H&M model’s family moves house over security concerns

-- 2018-01-17 10:37:21

The mother of the five-year-old H&M model caught up in a racism row has said her family has moved house in Sweden "for security reasons." Last week, photos of Liam Mango modelling a "coolest monk...

Libya airport attack claims 20 lives

Libya airport attack claims 20 lives

-- 2018-01-16 12:00:00

Twenty people including civilians have been killed and 69 others injured in an attack at the Mitiga international airport in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, a medical source confirmed on Monday. Abdud...

Libya’s coast guard rescues 360 migrants

Libya’s coast guard rescues 360 migrants

-- 2018-01-16 10:57:34

Libya’s coastal guard has rescued 360 illegal migrants off Libya's western coast, according to a Coast Guards official. "Patrol members on Monday received a distress call off the coast of Garra...

Liberia’s ruling party expels outgoing president Sirleaf

Liberia’s ruling party expels outgoing president Sirleaf

-- 2018-01-15 12:00:00

Liberia's outgoing president has been expelled from her own party, for allegedly failing to support its candidate to succeed her. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is accused of encouraging people to vote agains...

Tunisia police use tear gas as protests continue

Tunisia police use tear gas as protests continue

-- 2018-01-15 11:35:59

Violent protests erupted again in two areas of the capital Tunis and another town after a relatively calm two days, the latest protests in the country against austerity measures. After nearly a week...

South Africa will formally protest Trump's racist remarks

South Africa will formally protest Trump's racist remarks

-- 2018-01-15 10:44:31

South Africa is set to issue a diplomatic protest to the United States on Monday over US President Donald Trump's racist comments. The country’s foreign ministry informed it to CNN news network...

Tunisia announces social reforms after protests

Tunisia announces social reforms after protests

-- 2018-01-14 12:00:00

The Tunisian government has announced a wave of social reforms, following days of demonstrations by anti-austerity protesters. Protests broke out ahead of Sunday's seventh anniversary of the ousting...

H&M in SA faces backlash over ‘racist’ ad

H&M in SA faces backlash over ‘racist’ ad

-- 2018-01-14 10:47:57

South African police have used rubber bullets to disperse a mob trashing H&M stores in and around Johannesburg, after the brand used a controversial picture of a black child. The protests were or...