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Seven black rhinos die in Kenya in botched relocation

July 13th, 2018 Seven black rhinos are dead after a botched relocation by Kenya Wildlife Service, the Daily Nation newspaper reported on Friday. The rhinos, who are part of...

Africa

South Africa launches notes and coins for 100th anniversary of Mandela's birth

July 13th, 2018 South Africa on Friday launched a set of limited edition bank notes and gold coins to mark the 100th anniversary on July 18 of the birth of Nelson...

Africa

Long-term foes Ethiopia and Eritrea promise peace

July 9th, 2018 Ethiopia and Eritrea agreed to resume flights, open embassies and develop ports together on Monday, the most concrete signs of a rapprochement that has swept...

Africa

Former South Sudan vice president to be reinstated - presidency

July 8th, 2018 South Sudan's former vice president Riek Machar will be reinstated in his position as part of a peace deal to end a near five-year-old war that has devastated...

Africa

Illegal cigarette trade costing S. Africa $510m a year

July 5th, 2018 South Africa has become one of the biggest markets for illegal cigarette sales and is losing out on 7 billion rand ($514m) a year in potential tax revenue, a...

Africa

Al Qaeda-linked group claims attack on French troops in Mali

July 2nd, 2018 An al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Mali has claimed responsibility for an attack on French troops in the northern town of Gao, the US SITE monitoring group...

Africa

Fifteen dead in Nairobi market fire, 70 injured

June 28th, 2018 Fifteen people died and 70 were injured when fire swept through a market and nearby homes in central Nairobi in the early hours of Thursday. The blaze...

Africa

Ethiopian prime minister escapes grenade attack at rally

June 23rd, 2018 Ethiopia's new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed escaped a grenade attack on Saturday at a rally in the capital although scores of people were wounded, officials and...

Africa

UN says 46 Ethiopians drown en route to Yemen; 16 missing

June 6th, 2018 Forty-six Ethiopians drowned early on Wednesday and 16 were missing after a smuggler's boat carrying at least 100 migrants capsized as it approached Yemen, the...

Africa

At least 48 migrants dead after boat sinks off Tunisian coast

June 4th, 2018 At least 48 migrants were killed when their boat sank off Tunisia's coast and 67 others were rescued by the coast guard, officials said on Sunday, one of the...

Africa

African migrants report torture, slavery in Algeria

May 30th, 2018 Dozens of Africans say they were sold for labour and trapped in slavery in Algeria in what aid agencies fear may be a widening trend of abusing migrants headed...

Africa

Suspected poachers shot dead in Kenyan national park

May 30th, 2018 Wildlife troopers shot dead three armed men in Kenya's Mount Elgon National Park on Wednesday while two other suspected poachers were injured but escaped, the...

Africa

Teen bride who killed 'rapist' husband appeals death sentence

May 25th, 2018 A Sudanese teen sentenced to death after killing her husband as he tried to rape her has appealed the ruling amid growing support by celebrities and on social...

Africa

At least 7 killed by car bomb in Benghazi

May 25th, 2018 At least seven people were killed and 10 wounded when a car bomb exploded on a busy street in the center of the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday...

Africa

Zimbabwe applies to re-join Commonwealth

May 21st, 2018 President Emmerson Mnangagwa has officially applied for Zimbabwe to re-join the Commonwealth it left in 2003 and has invited the grouping of former British...

Africa

Death toll from listeria outbreak in SA over 200

May 17th, 2018 The death toll from the world's largest ever outbreak of the food-borne disease listeria has risen to 204, but the number of new cases has declined sharply...

Africa

Congo and WHO race to prevent runaway Ebola outbreak

May 17th, 2018 Congolese and U.N. officials were racing to prevent a runawayEbola outbreak in Congo on Thursday, working out the logistics of keeping newly arrived vaccines...

Africa

'Vicious cycle' as conflict uproots millions in Africa

May 16th, 2018 Violence and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa forced 15,000 people from their homes every day in 2017, double the previous year's figure, an international...

Africa

Pretoria to run South Africa's troubled North West province

May 13th, 2018 South Africa's national government is taking over the running of its troubled North West province, the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) said on...

World

First reported deaths in Congo Ebola outbreak came in January

May 10th, 2018 Cases of hemorrhagic fever were reported in an area of Congo that is facing an Ebola epidemic as far back as December and the first deaths were reported in...

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