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Africa

Some 146 migrants feared dead after shipwreck, sole survivor says

March 29th, 20171475 A rubber boat packed with 147 migrants sank in the Mediterranean and all but one of its passengers drowned, the sole survivor - a 16-year-old Gambian boy -...

Africa

Egyptian court jails 56 over migrant boat shipwreck

March 26th, 20172238 An Egyptian court sentenced 56 people to prison on Sunday over the capsizing of a migrant boat that left over 200 people dead last year. The defendants were...

Europe

Five bodies found, hundreds feared dead as migrant boats sink off Libya - NGO

March 23rd, 20172073 Five migrants were found dead in the sea off Libya on Thursday after the boats they were travelling in sank, likely carrying hundreds more to their deaths, an...

Africa

Falling tree kills at least 18 at Ghana waterfall

March 20th, 20171488 At least 18 people were killed when a large tree fell into the pool they were swimming in at the base of a waterfall in Ghana, crushing and drowning people...

Africa

Hundreds dead as Congo forces target civilians, deny UN access

March 18th, 20172269 By Aaron Ross GOVERNMENT forces have targeted civilians, including women and children, resulting in numerous deaths in central Congo this week and are...

Africa

Somali pirates release hijacked ship, crew without ransom

March 16th, 20172612 Somali pirates released a hijacked oil tanker and its eight Sri Lankan crew on Thursday, a Somali security official and the pirates said, bringing the first...

Africa

Sierra Leone pastor discovers 706-carat diamond

March 16th, 20172755 A Christian pastor has found one of the world's largest uncut diamonds - weighing 706 carats - in Sierra Leone's eastern Kono region. The stone, a...

Africa

Pirates demand ransom for tanker seized off Somalia

March 15th, 20171347 Pirates off the coast of Somalia, who hijacked an oil tanker with eight Sri Lankan crew on board, are demanding a ransom for the release of the vessel, the EU...

Africa

Somali pirates hijack first commercial ship since 2012

March 14th, 20171264 Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker with eight Sri Lankan crew onboard, a Somali official said on Tuesday, the first time they have successfully taken a...

Africa

Car bomb kills at least eight in Somali capital

March 13th, 20171086 A car bomb exploded near a hotel on a busy street in the Somali capital on Monday, killing at least eight people, police and medical services said, hours after...

Africa

Garbage dump landslide kills 35 in Ethiopian capital

March 12th, 20172131 A landslide at a huge garbage dump on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa killed 35 people who were searching for food and other goods there, an...

Africa

Nigeria's ailing President Buhari returns home

March 10th, 20171839 Nigerian President Muhammadu Buharire turned home on Friday after nearly two months of medical leave in Britain during which his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, stamped...

Africa

South Africa formally revokes international court withdrawal

March 8th, 20171904 South Africa on Tuesday formally revoked its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court after its High Court blocked the government's bid to pull out of...

Africa

Wife-beating a source of pride for some women in Mauritania

February 27th, 20173800 Salimata was always told she should be proud to come from a family of wife beaters. "You're the daughter of a woman whose husband broke her hands. Your...

Africa

South African police break up anti-immigrant protests

February 24th, 20172406 South African police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets to disperse rival marches by hundreds of protesters in Pretoria on Friday, after mobs...

Africa

Bomb kills at least eight in shopping district in Pakistan's Lahore

February 23rd, 20172547 By Mubashir Bukhari A bomb blast in an upscale shopping centre in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore killed at least eight people and wounded 20 on Thursday,...

Africa

South African court blocks govt's ICC withdrawal bid

February 22nd, 20171964 South Africa's High Court blocked the government's attempt to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday, the latest blow to...

Africa

UN says 1.4 million children at imminent risk of death in famines

February 21st, 20171809 Nearly 1.4 million children are at "imminent risk" of death in famines in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, the UN children's agency Unicef said on...

Africa

Convoy with head of Libyan UN-backed government shot at, no-one hurt

February 20th, 20172536 A convoy carrying the prime minister of Libya's UN-backed government and the two leaders of an allied parliament and presidential guard came under fire in...

Africa

Parts of South Sudan experiencing famine - government official

February 20th, 20172365 Parts of war-ravaged South Sudan have been hit by famine, a government official said on Monday, saying nearly half the country's population would lack reliable...

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