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A bus carrying students from a top Kenyan university collided with a truck on a busy highway after skidding in heavy rain, killing 11 of them and seriously injuring 42, police said. The accident occurred at 5:50 pm (2:50 GMT) Monday at Maungu, 360 kilometres (220 miles) from the capital Nairobi, when the students from…
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Niger's government announced on Saturday that it was breaking off "with immediate effect" its military cooperation agreement with the United States.
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Senegal's charismatic opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and his coalition's presidential candidate flew to the south of the country Saturday, pressing on with their election campaign less than two weeks before the vote.
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Outside a hospital in rural Zimbabwe, scores of people wait patiently under trees or inside small tents for news of their loved ones.
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Niger's government announced on Saturday that it was breaking off "with immediate effect" its military cooperation agreement with the United States. The declaration came just a day after a senior US delegation left Niger, following a three-day visit to renew contact with the military junta that ousted the president and moved closer to Russia. The…
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Senegal's anti-establishment figureheads have emerged stronger from a three-year struggle against President Macky Sall's government and the courts after their release from prison ahead of this month's election, analysts say.
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A major fire in Cairo destroyed one of the Arab world's most prestigious and oldest film production houses, founded 80 years ago, an AFP journalist said.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has restored capital punishment, particularly for treason and "banditry", as it deals with increased rebel attacks in the volatile east.
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A siege by Al-Shabaab Islamist militants of a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu ended on Friday after more than 13 hours, a police officer told AFP.
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Major internet access cuts struck several African countries Thursday because of damage to submarine communications cables, telecom operators said. "Breaks in multiple major undersea cables have affected connectivity services in several West African countries," the South African operator MTN Group said in a post on X. It said it was trying to reroute internet traffic…
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Senegal's President Macky Sall has told his government to enact an amnesty law as soon as it is officially published, amid hope a jailed main opposition candidate could be released ahead of the presidential poll in 10 days' time.
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About 50 people have died in Angola after being forced to drink an herbal potion to prove they were not sorcerers, police and local officials said on Thursday.
14 Mar
An explosion on Thursday at a gas depot near Tunisia's capital injured 35 people, four of them severely, civil protection services said.
13 Mar
Rwanda’s President, Paul Kagame, has confirmed his readiness to engage in talks with Felix Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in order to tackle the ongoing crisis in eastern Congo.
12 Mar
The US Treasury has levied sanctions on 16 individuals and entities across the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, accusing them of laundering money for the Al-Shabaab Islamist militant group. The Treasury said the "expansive business network" was part of an international fundraising and money-laundering web for the Al-Qaeda-linked group operating in Somalia and…
12 Mar
Haiti, where Ariel Henry resigned as prime minister this week, has a long history of unrest and violence. Gangs run much of the Western Hemisphere's poorest country, and have in recent weeks joined forces to oust the unelected leader. AFP looks at key chapters in Haiti's recent history: - Papa/Baby Doc dictatorship - For three…

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