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Togo president visits Mali amid Ivorian soldier row 04 Jan 2023 - 10:17 pm
Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe is mediating a diplomatic row over the detention of 46 Ivorian soldiers in Mali. By Ludovic MARIN (AFP)
Car bombs kill 35, burn houses in central Somalia 04 Jan 2023 - 07:02 pm
A view shows smoke rising following a car bomb explosion at Somalia's education ministry in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 29, 2022 in this picture obtained from social media. File Photo / Reuters
Nigeria to spend $7.5bn on petrol subsidy to mid-2023 04 Jan 2023 - 04:33 pm
Nigeria's Minister of Finance Zainab Ahmed speaks during a panel discussion at the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund during the Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington on October 13, 2022.  File Photo / Reuters
Tanzanian president lifts ban on opposition political rallies 03 Jan 2023 - 09:10 pm
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan. (AFP File photo)
Spain court opens probe into alleged E.Guinea torture 03 Jan 2023 - 08:20 pm
Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo attends a plenary session of the Paris Peace Forum, France November 12, 2019. File Photo / Reuters
Spain busts criminals smuggling e-waste to Africa 03 Jan 2023 - 06:05 pm
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Tunisia opposition says hit by politically motivated probes 03 Jan 2023 - 05:03 pm
Demonstrators hold loaves of bread as they protest in opposition to a referendum on a new constitution called by President Kais Saied, in Tunis, Tunisia June 18, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
DR Congo rebels have not retreated from key town, say locals 02 Jan 2023 - 11:23 pm
Congolese M23 rebels are seen as they withdraw from the 3 antennes location in Kibumba, near Goma, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, December 23, 2022. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi
Tunisia transport workers strike amid economic woes 02 Jan 2023 - 10:41 pm
Tunisians are pictured next to a tram station in the capital Tunis' Ariana district, on January 2, 2023, after a strike by the public transport employees was announced the night before. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Egypt recovers 2,700-year-old sarcophagus lid from US 02 Jan 2023 - 08:16 pm
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (center right) and the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri (center left) are surrounded by journalists as they inspect an ancient Egyptian wooden sarcophagus being handed over and which was formerly displayed at Houston Museum of Natural Sciences after having been looted and smuggled years prior, at the foreign ministry headquarters in the capital Cairo on January 2, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
Two Senegal MPs get six-month terms for hitting colleague 02 Jan 2023 - 04:44 pm
A man holds a Senegalese flag outside the Parliament in Dakar on September 12, 2022.  File Photo / AFP
Cholera deaths surge in Malawi, keeping schools closed 02 Jan 2023 - 01:57 pm
Pilirani Wanja, a clinician at Ndirande Health Centre, demonstrates to clients how to take the cholera vaccine in response to the latest cholera outbreak in Blantyre, Malawi, November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Eldson Chagara/File Photo
At least 20 people killed in clashes in Somaliland 01 Jan 2023 - 07:11 pm
A general view of downtown Hargeisa on May 16, 2016. File Photo / AFP
Moroccans cross into Spain's Melilla enclave: rights group 01 Jan 2023 - 05:38 pm
Moroccan soldiers walk on the Moroccan side of a border fence with Spain's north African enclave of Melilla, in this picture taken on the Spanish side of the fence, December 12, 2014. File Photo / Reuters
Children among nine dead in Uganda New Year stampede 01 Jan 2023 - 03:52 pm
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Nine die in Uganda New Year stampede: police 01 Jan 2023 - 01:16 pm
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Morocco to ban arrivals from China over COVID surge 31 Dec 2022 - 10:36 pm
A medical worker in a protective suit checks a thermometer for a patient at the entrance to the fever clinic of the Central Hospital of Wuhan, amid of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on December 31, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang
Mudslides kill at least 10 miners in eastern DR Congo 31 Dec 2022 - 09:02 pm
This file photo taken on November 26, 2019 shows a road surface swept away by a landslide caused by torrential overnight rains in the Lemba district of the capital Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (AFP)