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World / Africa

Deadly Ethiopia unrest poses fresh challenge to Nobel winner 24 Oct 2019 - 06:26 pm
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during a session with the Members of the Parliament in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, October 22, 2019. Reuters/Tiksa Negeri
Ethiopia sees rise in businesses doing good as economy opens up 23 Oct 2019 - 10:47 pm
A woman rescued from prostitution makes jewellery from bullet casings at Ethiopian social enterprise Ellilta Products in Addis Ababa,October 22, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Belinda Goldsmith
African slum map exposes true scale of urban poverty 23 Oct 2019 - 10:16 pm
A child stands behind pit latrines made of rusted iron sheets in Kibera slum within Nairobi, Kenya, February 24, 2019. Reuters / Njeri Mwangi
Peacebuilding in Somalia - another victim of climate change? 23 Oct 2019 - 10:16 pm
Women carry jerry cans of water from shallow wells dug from the sand along the Shabelle River bed which is dry due to drought in Somalian Shabelle region, March 19, 2016. Reuters / Feisal Omar
Khama family, Botswana political royalty, faces election setback 22 Oct 2019 - 11:20 pm
 Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) supporter holds up a poster during an election campaign rally in Mokgweetsi Masisi's, President of Botswana and leader of the BDP, home village in Moshupa, on October 22, 2019. AFP / Monirul Bhuiyan
More than 100 elephants die in Botswana in suspected anthrax outbreak 22 Oct 2019 - 10:41 pm
The marked carcass of an elephant is seen, after reports that conservationists have discovered 87 of them slaughtered just in the last few months, in the Mababe area, Botswana, September 19, 2018. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko
South Sudan's former child soldiers struggle to move on 22 Oct 2019 - 06:31 pm
FILE PHOTO: Soldiers of the Sudan People Liberation Army celebrate while standing in trenches in Lelo outside Malakal, northern South Sudan on October 16, 2016. AFP / Albert Gonzalez Farran
Namibian president set for re-election next month amid economic crisis 18 Oct 2019 - 05:47 pm
Hage Gottfried Geingob, president of Namibia, looks on during a session of the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, September 5, 2019. Reuters/Sumaya Hisham
S. Africa hit by rolling blackouts as state utility struggles 16 Oct 2019 - 12:32 pm
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In the dark: Electricity a 'luxury' in poor Madagascar 15 Oct 2019 - 06:43 pm
People are seen ahead of Pope Francis' recent arrival for a prayer vigil with youth at the Soamandrakizay Mess site in Antananarivo, Madagascar, September 7, 2019. Reuters / Yara Nardi
Mozambique votes in tense election after violent campaign 15 Oct 2019 - 01:09 pm
A Mozambican man receives his ballot at a voting station in a school during the Mozambican General Elections on October 15, 2019 in Maputo, Mozambique. / AFP / GIANLUIGI GUERCIA
Secret abortions spike in Nigeria with Boko Haram chaos 14 Oct 2019 - 08:21 pm
A gas filling station destroyed by Boko Haram in Bama, in northeast Nigeria where a Boko Haram insurgency displaced more than 2 million people. AFP / Stefan Heunis
176 migrants rescued off Libya, 110 others turned back 13 Oct 2019 - 05:10 pm
Rwanda's Ministry of Emergency Management (MINEMA) teken on October 10, 2019, shows the arrival of 123 Africal refugees and asylum seekers, mostly Eritreans, from Libya supported by Rwanda's UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, at the Kigali international airpor
Ethiopia 'proud as a nation' of Abiy Nobel win: PM's office 11 Oct 2019 - 01:10 pm
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. / AFP / MICHAEL TEWELDE / File Photo
Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed wins 2019 Nobel Peace Prize 11 Oct 2019 - 11:56 am
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. (REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo)
Congo Republic president's adviser awarded oil licenses at heart of Eni probe 10 Oct 2019 - 09:38 pm
The logo of Italian energy company Eni is seen at a gas station in Rome, Italy September 30, 2018. Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi
Faced with climate change and growth, Ethiopia's capital shores up its water supply 10 Oct 2019 - 08:34 am
FILE PHOTO: Water flows through Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam as it undergoes construction work on the river Nile in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia September 26, 2019. Picture taken September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - RC18957504
Kindness of strangers tips the scales in strife-wracked Mali 09 Oct 2019 - 07:25 pm
Two displaced children lie down to watch the television in the court of a house in Segou on September 30, 2019.  AFP / Michele Cattani