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15, mostly women, die in Morocco aid stampede

15, mostly women, die in Morocco aid stampede

-- 2017-11-20 12:00:00

Fifteen people were killed and five more injured when a stampede broke out in a southwestern Moroccan town on Sunday as food aid was being distributed in a market, the Interior Ministry said. A hospi...

Mugabe to face impeachment soon

Mugabe to face impeachment soon

-- 2017-11-20 07:20:39

Zimbabwe’s ruling party now discussing the process to impeach President Robert Mugabe on Monday after expiring the deadline to end his nearly four decades in power by resigning. ZANU-PF party...

Mugabe gets 24 hours to quit

Mugabe gets 24 hours to quit

-- 2017-11-19 12:00:00

Zimbabwe’s ruling party gave Robert Mugabe less than 24 hours to quit as the head of state, otherwise the 93-year-old will face impeachment. The ZANU-PF party made the decision as an attempt to...

'Party set to sack Mugabe'

'Party set to sack Mugabe'

Reuters 2017-11-19 10:18:33

The leaders of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party will meet on Sunday to approve the dismissal of President Robert Mugabe, the only leader the southern African nation has known since independence 3...

Zimbabwe ruling party expels Mugabe, wife

Zimbabwe ruling party expels Mugabe, wife

-- 2017-11-19 06:42:33

Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party has expelled country's President Robert Mugabe as the leader of the party on Sunday. The party replaced Mugabe by his former deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa. His wife Grace...

Five die as Kenya Police battle Odinga supporters

Five die as Kenya Police battle Odinga supporters

-- 2017-11-18 12:00:00

Five people have been killed in Kenya's capital Nairobi as police broke up crowds of opposition supporters. At least two of the victims were shot dead, reports said, while others may have been stoned...

Zimbabweans celebrate as Mugabe era nears end

Zimbabweans celebrate as Mugabe era nears end

-- 2017-11-18 07:45:59

Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans took to the streets of Harare on Saturday to demand the resignation of President Robert Mugabe. They flooded the streets of the capital, singing, dancing and hugging...

Clouds over fate of Zimbabwe’s Mugabe

Clouds over fate of Zimbabwe’s Mugabe

Reuters 2017-11-17 12:53:07

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s fate hung in the balance on Friday as he apparently resisted efforts to make him step down following a seizure of power by the army, until this week a key pi...

'Mugabe shall go'

'Mugabe shall go'

Reuters 2017-11-17 12:00:00

Leaders of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party are making plans to force him from office if the 93-year-old leader resists pressure from the army to quit, a senior party source said on Friday....

Fire at Cameroon parliament building

Fire at Cameroon parliament building

-- 2017-11-17 08:59:43

Cameroon's main parliament building in its capital Yaoundé was badly damaged by fire which ripped through four floors. Firefighters managed to put out the blaze before it could reach the parli...

Zimbabwe's Mugabe appears in public

Zimbabwe's Mugabe appears in public

-- 2017-11-17 05:54:01

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has appeared in first public appearance since a military seizure of power in the country. Mugabe was present at a university graduation ceremony in Harare on Friday....

Multiple suicide blasts kill 14 in Nigeria

Multiple suicide blasts kill 14 in Nigeria

-- 2017-11-16 11:00:20

Four suicide bombers detonated in Nigeria's Borno state capital and killed 14 people while wounding another 29, police said Wednesday, in one of the largest such attacks in the city in years. The dea...

Army takes power in Zimbabwe, says president ‘safe’

Army takes power in Zimbabwe, says president ‘safe’

-- 2017-11-15 12:00:00

Zimbabwe’s military seized power early on Wednesday targeting “criminals” around President Robert Mugabe but gave assurances on national television that the 93-year-old leader and hi...

Soldiers seize Zimbabwe state broadcaster

Soldiers seize Zimbabwe state broadcaster

-- 2017-11-15 10:50:09

Soldiers deployed across the Zimbabwe capital Harare and seized the state broadcaster on Wednesday after 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party accused the head of the milita...

Zimbabwe army chief warns Mugabe

Zimbabwe army chief warns Mugabe

-- 2017-11-14 12:00:00

Zimbabwe’s top general warned on Monday that the military would not hesitate to step in to end purges against former liberation war fighters in President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party after...

‘33 die’ in Congo train crash

‘33 die’ in Congo train crash

-- 2017-11-13 10:41:55

At least 33 people were killed in a train crash at Buyofwe in the Lualaba province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, UN radio station Okapi reports. Radio Okapi said the train carrying flammable m...

Egypt destroys arms convoy at Libya border

Egypt destroys arms convoy at Libya border

-- 2017-11-12 11:17:24

Egyptian military jets destroyed 10 vehicles carrying weapons, ammunition and smuggled goods near the country’s western desert border with Libya, the army said on Saturday. Egypt’s porou...

Congo militiamen on trial for child rape

Congo militiamen on trial for child rape

-- 2017-11-11 10:18:52

Eighteen militiamen are on trial in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on charges of raping 46 children. Some of the victims from the village of Kavumu were just 18 months old. The men all...

Tanzania 'grenade' explosion kills six schoolchildren

Tanzania 'grenade' explosion kills six schoolchildren

-- 2017-11-09 10:12:51

At least six children have been killed and 25 others injured in an explosion at a primary school in Kagera region near the border with Burundi in north-west Tanzania, witnesses say. The pupils were p...

UN adopts resolution to combat Somalian pirates

UN adopts resolution to combat Somalian pirates

-- 2017-11-08 12:49:11

The Security Council Tuesday adopted a resolution to condemn the acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea off the coast of Somalia and to call for a comprehensive response to prevent and suppress such...

Zimbabwe's Mugabe fires Vice President

Zimbabwe's Mugabe fires Vice President

-- 2017-11-07 11:56:29

Zimbabwe's Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been removed from his post, the country's government has announced. Mr Mnangagwa, 75, had displayed "traits of disloyalty", Information Minister Simon...

Migrant boat capsizes in Libya, killing 5

Migrant boat capsizes in Libya, killing 5

-- 2017-11-07 11:28:41

At least five migrants died and many others feared missing when a rubber boat, carrying about 140 people, overturned close to the border between Libyan and international waters on Monday, Libyan coast...

Congo clash kills seven, Renegade Colonel surrenders

Congo clash kills seven, Renegade Colonel surrenders

-- 2017-11-06 12:00:00

Clashes between Congolese troops and supporters of a renegade colonel in Congo’s eastern city of Bukavu killed seven people on Sunday before he surrendered and turned himself in to UN peacekeepe...

Senegal bus crash kills 25 people

Senegal bus crash kills 25 people

-- 2017-11-06 12:00:00

Two buses in Senegal collided – thereby killing at least 25 people and injuring at least a dozen, including many who were heading to an annual pilgrimage. Senegal radio station Rfm reported Mon...

Libya navy rescues 200 illegal immigrants

Libya navy rescues 200 illegal immigrants

-- 2017-11-05 12:24:55

The Libyan navy rescued 200 illegal immigrants from a rubber boat that crashed into the western Libyan shores on Saturday, said a navy official. The rescued migrants include women who are of African...

Zimbabwe police arrest American over ‘anti-government plot’

Zimbabwe police arrest American over ‘anti-government plot’

BBC 2017-11-04 10:22:20

Police in Zimbabwe charged an American woman over a tweet that appeared to insult President Robert Mugabe, her lawyer has said. Martha O'Donovan, 25, is accused of referring to Mr Mugabe as "selfish...

Kenya's lecturers strike over salaries

Kenya's lecturers strike over salaries

-- 2017-11-02 02:12:09

Kenyan lecturers in public universities have launched a strike to protest against what they call the government’s continued failure to implement a March deal to boost salaries and housing allowa...

Russia, Nigeria ink nuclear power plants deal

Russia, Nigeria ink nuclear power plants deal

BBC 2017-11-01 01:01:38

Russia has signed a deal to build two nuclear power plants in Nigeria, as Africa's largest economy seeks to end its energy crisis. Russian state-owned company Rosatom will build one in the south, the...

US captures Benghazi attack suspect

US captures Benghazi attack suspect

Reuters 2017-10-31 12:00:00

US forces have captured a militant who is believed to have played a role in a 2012 attack on a US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other...

UN calls for probe into Libya killing

UN calls for probe into Libya killing

Xinhua 2017-10-30 12:26:10

UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Sunday called for an immediate investigation into the killing of 36 people near the eastern city of Benghazi. "UNSMIL calls for immediate investigation to brin...