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Zimbabwe pastor in court over Mugabe death prophecy 18 Jan 2017 - 06:46 pm
Zimbabwean Pastor Phillip Patrick Mugadza (R) is escorted by detectives at the Harare Magistrates court, where he faces charges of insulting President Robert Mugabe for allegedly prophesing the statesman would die on October 17 this year, according to the
At least 26,000 people flee Gambia to Senegal as refugees: UN 18 Jan 2017 - 05:52 pm
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Gambia: President Jammeh declares state of emergency 18 Jan 2017 - 10:27 am
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Nigerian fighter jet misfire kills civilians 18 Jan 2017 - 10:24 am
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West African states prepare Gambia intervention unless Jammeh quits: Source 17 Jan 2017 - 12:29 pm
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Four Gambia ministers resign from Jammeh's government 17 Jan 2017 - 12:23 pm
Mai Fatty, special advisor to the Gambian president-elect, speaks during a press briefing in Dakar on January 16, 2017. The inauguration of The Gambia's president-elect Adama Barrow will go ahead on January 19, his spokesman insisted on January 15, as Pre
9 killed in collision with AMISOM convoy 16 Jan 2017 - 02:11 pm
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Twin explosions hit Nigerian Maiduguri univ. campus 16 Jan 2017 - 12:56 pm
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Gambia: Jammeh calls on ECOWAS chair to mediate crisis 16 Jan 2017 - 12:39 pm
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Kenya: Fire crews battle inferno in national park 15 Jan 2017 - 11:43 am
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Gambian crisis takes centre stage at Mali summit 15 Jan 2017 - 04:45 am
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita speaks during the 27th Africa-France summit in Bamako yesterday. Some 30 African leaders and French President Francois Hollande gathered for an Africa-France summit to discuss the jihadist threat, challenges to governance and the mi
Uganda tribal leader re-arrested hours after being freed 15 Jan 2017 - 03:39 am
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Ivory Coast government and rebel troops reach deal 14 Jan 2017 - 09:20 am
Ivory Coast Commandant of the presidential palace security Cherif Ousmane(R)talks to Lieutenant colonel Issiaka Ouattara (AKA Wattao), at the airport in Bouake, the country's second largest city, on January 13, 2017. AFP / Sia KAMBOU
Obama eases Sudan sanctions 13 Jan 2017 - 07:35 pm
Barack Obama (REUTERS / Kevin Lamarque)
Four suicide bombers kill 15 in northeast Nigeria, police say 13 Jan 2017 - 05:55 pm
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One dead in Boko Haram blasts in Nigeria: state govt 13 Jan 2017 - 05:50 pm
Soldiers of the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army stand by the road in Damboa Borno State northeast Nigeria on March 25, 2016 (AFP /STEFAN HEUNIS)
African Union says it will stop recognising Jammeh as Gambian president from Jan .19 13 Jan 2017 - 05:49 pm
Yahya Jammeh
Grenade attack in Ethiopia kills one, injures 11 12 Jan 2017 - 01:05 pm
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the 2025 Climate Summit Brazil president launches forest fund at Climate Summit
Argentina's former President (2007-2015) and vice-president (2019-2023) Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner waves at supporters from the balcony of her residence where she is serving house arrest in Buenos Aires. Photo by Luis Robayo / AFP Kirchner on trial in Argentina's 'biggest ever' corruption case
FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford holds a press conference at the U.S. Department of Transportation Headquarters on November 05, 2025 in Washington, DC. Photo by TASOS KATOPODIS / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP US to cancel flights as longest govt shutdown drags on
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Middle East

Syria's President Ahmad Al Sharaa at the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil, on November 6, 2025. (Photo by Mauro PIimentel / AFP) UN Security Council votes to lift sanctions on Syrian president
A man stands amid the debris at the site of an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Toura on November 6, 2025. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP) Israeli occupation conducts airstrikes in southern Lebanon, injuring several civilians
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York City on September 24, 2025. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) Syrian President to attend COP30 in Brazil: diplomatic source
Displaced Palestinian children collect branches and twigs to use for cooking amid fuel shortage in the village of Juhr al-Dik, east of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on November 3, 2025. (Photo by Eyad Baba / AFP) 80% of agricultural land in Gaza destroyed, imminent famine possible: FAO

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