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World / Africa

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
Ethiopian Airlines denies it tampered with flight records after crash 09 Oct 2019 - 01:58 pm
Peninsula
Fewer children, fewer climate risks? Niger ponders a controversial option 07 Oct 2019 - 08:48 pm
Displaced residents of Niamey collect water at tanks on September 11, 2019 in the makeshift camp of Saguia near the capital after the Niger river floods forced inhabitants out of the area. AFP / Boureima Hama
Zuma's son denies $40 mn bribe offered to South African ex-minister 07 Oct 2019 - 07:42 pm
Duduzane Zuma, the son of former South African President Jacob Zuma, looks on before the start of the commission of inquiry probing state capture in Johannesburg, South Africa October 7, 2019. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko
'Africa's oldest' tortoise dies in Nigeria: palace 06 Oct 2019 - 08:32 pm
A giant tortoise poses in its enclosure in the park of former Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore in the village of Ziniare, near Ouagadougou on September 21, 2019. AFP / Issouf Sanogo
Anti-establishment parties battle political elite in Tunisia election 06 Oct 2019 - 10:20 am
A woman has her finger stained with ink at a polling station during parliamentary elections, in Tunis, Tunisia October 6, 2019. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
Fearing 'climate apartheid', Cape Town teen grows green business 04 Oct 2019 - 09:39 pm
South African climate activist Zoe Prinsloo poses in front of a floor mural showing Sustainable Development Goal number 13,
Zimbabwean women struggle to shake off sex-for-land corruption 03 Oct 2019 - 10:00 pm
Cattle walk near Zimunya in Manicaland province, Zimbabwe, June 20, 2018. Thomson Reuters Foundation / Andrew Mambondiyani