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Nigeria's disasters agency says 100 people killed in floods across 10 states
Floods in much of central and southern Nigeria have killed 100 people across 10 states, the country's emergency and disasters agency said on Monday. Such flooding ten...
AFRICA
Ethiopia reopens embassy in Eritrea in further warming of ties
Ethiopia reopened its embassy in the Eritrean capital Asmara on Thursday, the state-affiliated Ethiopian Fana Broadcasting said, a further sign of improving ties after the Horn ...
AFRICA
At least 10 killed in South Africa bus crash
At least ten people died after a bus traveling from South Africa's Cape Town to the Eastern Cape overturned in the early hours of Thursday morning, traffic officials said.
AFRICA
Kenyan parliament rejects committees' call to probe ministers over sugar imports: papers
Kenyan lawmakers have rejected a report by two parliamentary committees that recommended the finance minister and a cabinet colleague be investigated over their handling of suga...
WORLD NEWS
Congo opposition leader Bemba to return next week for presidential bid
Congolese opposition leader and former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba, whose war crimes convictions were quashed in May, will return to the country next week to submit his candidacy ...
WORLD NEWS
Ghana leader names new election chief, opposition dismayed
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday named lawyer and governance specialist Jean Mensa to head the national electoral commission, dismaying the main opposition party whi...
AFRICA
Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 18 in Chadian village
Suspected Boko Haram militants killed 18 farmers and kidnapped nine women in western Chad, authorities said, part of a wave of violence that has spread from neighboring Nigeria ...
AFRICA
Far from Ethiopia's capital, change remains a distant dream
Clutching the bloodstained student ID card and post-mortem certificate of his younger brother, Abedir Jamal's elation at the huge changes underway in Ethiopia is tempered by his...
AFRICA
Migrants stranded without aid as Tunisia refuses to let ship dock
A Tunisian boat carrying around 40 African migrants has been stranded off the country's coast without aid for more than a week after authorities refused to let them disembark th...
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