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281 inmates escape after floods brought down prison's walls in Nigeria 16 Sep 2024 - 08:51 pm
This aerial view shows houses submerged under water in Maiduguri on September 10, 2024. (Photo by Audu Marte / AFP)
More than 40 dead after river boat capsizes in Nigeria 15 Sep 2024 - 06:10 pm
Photo used for demonstration purposes. People affected by floods are escorted through flood water on a military boat in Maiduguri on September 12, 2024. Photo by Audu MARTE / AFP.
Guinea gives land to victims of forced evictions 15 Sep 2024 - 05:02 pm
File photo used for demonstration purposes.
Uganda holds funeral for murdered Olympian Cheptegei 14 Sep 2024 - 07:49 pm
Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) officers play musical instruments and place the coffin of Ugandan marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, in the middle of the common room for people to pay their respects and mourn her in the district headquarters of the village of Bukwo on September 14, 2024. Photo by BADRU KATUMBA / AFP.
Algeria president re-elected with 84.3 percent of vote: official results 14 Sep 2024 - 04:17 pm
People walk past posters of Algeria's President Abdelmajid Tebboune outside an election campaign headquarters in Algiers on September 8, 2024. Photo by AFP.
Uganda holds funeral for murdered Olympian Cheptegei 14 Sep 2024 - 11:38 am
Friends and family react as they view the body of late marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei in Eldoret, western Kenya, on September 13, 2024. (Photo by Brian Ongoro / AFP)
Sudan museums' precious antiquities looted in war 13 Sep 2024 - 11:37 pm
File: A view of the entrance of Sudan National Museum in Khartoum on August 12, 2020. (Photo by Ashraf Shazly / AFP)
Comoros president wounded in knife attack 13 Sep 2024 - 10:53 pm
File: Incumbent Comoros President and presidential candidate for the Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros (CRC) party, Azali Assoumani (ccentre right), and Ambari Assoumani, First Lady of Comoros, leave after casting their ballots at the Mitsudje public school polling station in Moroni on January 14, 2024. (Photo by Olympia De Maismont / AFP)
Morocco sees first mpox case in North Africa during emergency: CDC 13 Sep 2024 - 05:26 pm
Photo for demonstration purposes. A patient with a severe form of the mpox epidemic is treated at the Kavumu hospital, 30 km north of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, August 24, 2024. Photo by Glody MURHABAZI / AFP.
Senegal's president dissolves parliament to call a snap legislative election 12 Sep 2024 - 11:48 pm
File: Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye delivers a speech during the Global Forum for Vaccine Sovereignty and Innovation at the French Foreign Ministry, the Quai d'Orsay, in Paris, on June 20, 2024. (Photo by Dylan Martinez / POOL / AFP)
Organization of Islamic Cooperation expresses solidarity with flood victims in Nigeria 12 Sep 2024 - 10:48 pm
People help an elderly man wade through flood water in Maiduguri on September 12, 2024.  (Photo by Audu Marte / AFP)
UN warns some 25 million Sudanese risk famine without more donations 12 Sep 2024 - 08:48 pm
Displaced Sudanese who have returned from Ethiopia gather in a camp run by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Sudan's border town of Gallabat in the eastern state of Gadaref on September 11, 2024.  (Photo by Ebrahim Hamid / AFP)
Mpox deaths rise by 107 in a week as Africa CDC calls the toll unacceptable 12 Sep 2024 - 08:24 pm
A patient suffering from mpox sits on a bench at the Kavumu hospital, north of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on August 24, 2024. (Photo by Glody Murhabazi  / AFP )
Nigeria floods kill 30, displace 400,000: rescuers 11 Sep 2024 - 09:07 pm
This aerial view shows houses submerged under water in Maiduguri on September 10, 2024. (Photo by Audu Marte / AFP)
Striking Kenya airport staff to resume work 11 Sep 2024 - 07:57 pm
Empty check-in counters seen inside the departures of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi on September 11, 2024 amid a strike by the Kenyan Aviation Workers Union. Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP
Kenya airport strike disrupts flights 11 Sep 2024 - 10:29 am
Passengers wait at a closed door at the departures of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi on September 11, 2024. (Photo by Simon Maina / AFP)
Dam collapse in Nigeria sweeps deadly reptiles into flooded communities 10 Sep 2024 - 07:19 pm
This aerial view shows houses submerged under water in Maiduguri on September 10, 2024. Photo by Audu MARTE / AFP
First doses of mpox vaccine from the United States arrive in Congo 10 Sep 2024 - 04:34 pm
This handout photograph taken and released by the European Union's Press Service on September 5, 2024, shows a policeman gesturing during the reception of a batch of MPOX vaccines donated by European Union at the tarmac of the Kinshasa International Airport in the Nsele district of Kinshasa. Photo by EUROPEAN UNION / AFP.