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  • Stop hoarding Covid-19 vaccines, South Africa's Ramaphosa tells rich nations

    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday urged wealthy countries not to hoard surplus Covid-19 vaccine supplies, adding his voice to calls for global production to be shared more equally.

  • Thirteen dead, thousands homeless in southern Africa after storm Eloise

    The death toll from storm Eloise rose to at least 13 on Monday after heavy winds, rain and flooding destroyed buildings, drowned crops and displaced thousands in parts of southern Africa.

  • At least 48 dead in Sudan’s Darfur clashes

    At least 48 people died and 97 people were injured in a militia attack on the West Darfur city of El Geneina on Saturday, Sudan's state news agency SUNA said, citing a local doctors union.

  • More than 300 Nigerian abducted schoolboys freed: government official

    More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in northwest Nigeria have been released, a government official said Thursday.

  • Death toll in migrant ship accident off Tunisia rises to 17

    Tunisia recovered more bodies on Tuesday from a ship that sank off the Tunisian coast on Sunday while carrying African migrants, bringing the death toll to 17, a judicial official told Reuters.

  • Around 50 feared dead in DR Congo mine collapse

    About 50 people are feared dead after a gold mine collapsed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following torrential rain, local authorities said Saturday.

  • ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero arrested on terror charges

    Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in the film “Hotel Rwanda” as a hero who saved the lives of more than 1,200 people from the country’s 1994 genocide, has been arrested by the Rwandan government on terror charges, the country's police announces.

  • Africa declared free of wild polio

    The independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for Polio Eradication has declared the region free of endemic wild polio, four years after the last case was recorded in Nigeria.

  • 7 dead after gunmen attack Mogadishu hotel

    Militants storm a high-end seaside hotel in Mogadishu, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 20 as they detonated a car bomb then opened fire with assault rifles in the latest attack in the Somali capital.

  • Amazon fires a ‘lie’

    Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said it is a “lie” that fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest, despite data from his own government showing the number of blazes is rising.

  • Fires triple in Brazil wetlands

    The number of forest fires in the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands, has nearly tripled in 2020 compared to the same period last year, according to satellite data released Thursday. Brazil’s national space agency identified 3,506 fires from January 1 to July 22 in the Pantanal.

  • 20 killed in attacks on villages in western Niger

    Bandits riding motorbikes killed 20 villagers in a string of attacks in Niger's western region of Tillaberi, the governor there tells AFP.

  • Nigerian president's chief of staff dies from coronavirus

    The Nigerian president's chief of staff, Abba Kyari, died after contracting the new coronavirus, two presidency spokesmen says on Twitter.

  • South Africa: first 2 coronavirus deaths, cases top 1,000

    South Africa on Friday reported its first two deaths from the novel coronavirus outbreak as the number of confirmed cases breached the 1,000 mark, the government says.

  • Coronavirus infection

    Virus detected in sub-Saharan Africa, global stock markets tank

    Nigeria reports the first new coronavirus case in sub-Saharan Africa, as global stock markets tank on deepening fears of a pandemic and the World Health Organization warn against the "fatal mistake" of complacency.

  • Lassa fever deaths in Nigeria rise to 41

    The death toll from Lassa fever in Nigeria since the beginning of January has risen to 41 as cases were confirmed in more regions, Nigeria’s disease control agency said.

  • 4 killed in car bombing near Somalia parliament

    At least four people were killed and 10 wounded when a car bomb exploded close to a checkpoint near Somalia’s parliament in the capital Mogadishu yesterday, police said.

  • Massive car bomb kills 90 in Somalia

    At least 90 people were killed and dozens were wounded when a bomb-laden vehicle exploded at a bustling checkpoint in the Somali capital Mogadishu, an international organisation working in the country says, in one of the most deadly recent attacks.

  • S Sudan rivals agree to form unity govt

    South Sudan President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar yesterday agreed to form a unity government by a February deadline, as they face international censure over faltering peace talks.

  • Brazil’s climate negotiators in dark on Bolsonaro’s aims

    Brazil’s negotiators already face a tough job at United Nations climate talks, given anger at President Jair Bolsonaro’s stance on the Amazon, but it has become doubly difficult as they are in the dark on their own government’s aims.

  • Congo plane crash death toll rises to 27

    At least 27 people are killed, including some on the ground, when a small plane crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, a rescue official says.

  • 55 elephants die in Zimbabwe

    At least 55 elephants have died in a month in Zimbabwe due to a lack of food and water, its wildlife agency said Monday, as the country faces one of the worst droughts in its history.

  • Nigeria rescues 147 from ‘torture house’: state govt

    Police in northern Nigeria have rescued 147 people from an Islamic boarding school where the students were being abused, the fourth such raid in a month, a local official told AFP.

  • Ethiopian PM wins 2019 Nobel Peace Prize

    Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wins the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his peacemaking efforts with Eritrea. Ethiopia and Eritrea, longtime foes who fought a border war from 1998 to 2000, restored relations in July 2018 after years of hostility.

  • Ebola virus contained in DR Congo: WHO

    Efforts to halt an Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo have made “significant progress”, with the virus now contained to a far smaller and mainly rural area, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.

  • Portugal’s Socialists tipped for re-election

    Portugal yesterday voted with Prime Minister Antonio Costa’s Socialists tipped to win a second straight term after presiding over a period of solid economic growth following years of austerity.

  • 25 Mali soldiers killed in clashes

    At least 25 Malian soldiers have been killed and about 60 are missing after jihadists attacked two military posts in the country’s fragile central region, the Malian government said yesterday.

  • Shabaab claims attack on US base in somalia

    The Al-Shabaab militant group claimed responsibility for an attack on a US base in Somalia yesterday, as the European Union confirmed a separate strike against a convoy of Italian advisers.

  • Cholera outbreak kills 8 in Sudan

    Eight people have died from cholera in Sudan including six in the war-torn state of Blue Nile, according to the World Health Organisation, amid a surge in the number of reported cases. A total of 184 cases of cholera have been reported in the northeast African country over the

  • 7 children killed in Kenya school collapse

    Seven children died and scores were injured early yesterday when a school building collapsed in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, in an accident blamed on shoddy construction. “So far we can confirm that we have seven fatalities,” government spokesman Cyrus Oguna said

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