UN rights chief deplores abuse reports in Ethiopia's Tigray
21 June 2021, 14:33 PM
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Ghana plants 5 million trees in single day to combat deforestation
12 June 2021, 09:42 AM
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‘This IS INSANE’: Africa desperately short of COVID vaccine
9 June 2021, 07:44 AM
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Nigeria suspended Twitter days after president's post removed
5 June 2021, 06:52 AM
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African Union suspends Mali after military coup and threatens sanctions
2 June 2021, 13:29 PM
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Mali president and prime minister freed by military after resigning
27 May 2021, 13:39 PM
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Suspected ADF militants kill 22 with knives, machetes in eastern Congo
26 May 2021, 19:54 PM
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Mali's president and prime minister resign following military takeover
26 May 2021, 13:55 PM
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Military detain Mali's president, prime minister and defence minister
25 May 2021, 02:11 AM
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Court allows Suez Canal to keep holding container ship that blocked traffic
23 May 2021, 13:17 PM
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Three students dead after Nigeria school kidnapping, says principal
Three children have died following a school kidnapping of 94 students and eight staff in northwest Nigeria this week, the establishment's principal said on Sunday.
20 June 2021, 15:45 PM
Suez Canal shipping backlog ends, days after giant vessel freed
All ships stranded by the grounding of the giant container ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal in March had passed through the canal by Saturday, ending the backlog that built up during the blockage, the canal authority said.
3 April 2021, 17:51 PM
Egypt train crash kills 32 people, injures scores
At least 32 people were killed and 165 injured when two trains collided in central Egypt on Friday, health ministry officials said, as the prime minister admitted the country's rail network urgently needed modernising.
26 March 2021, 19:46 PM
Zuma on the brink
South Africa's ANC yesterday unveiled plans to sack President Jacob Zuma via a parliamentary no-confidence vote, hours after armed
14 February 2018, 18:00 PM
ICC jails Congo warlord over war crimes
Judges at the International Criminal Court yesterday sentenced former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba to
21 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Brazil 'mass rape': 7 suspects charged
Six men and a minor are to be charged in Rio de Janeiro with raping a 16-year-old girl and posting pictures and video
18 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Bodies of 34 migrants found in Niger desert
The bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, who were abandoned by people smugglers while trying to reach
16 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Facebook 'declares war' in Philippine
Facebook has apologised for accidentally declaring the Philippines was in a state of war, in what was meant to be an
14 June 2016, 18:00 PM
PNG cops fire on rally, casualties feared
Police in Papua New Guinea yesterday opened fire on students protesting against Prime Minister Peter O'Neill. Several
8 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Boko Haram attack in Niger kills 32
Thirty-two troops have been killed in a clash with Boko Haram jihadists on Niger's border with Nigeria, Niger's defence ministry
4 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Mugabe 'frees all female prisoners'
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has granted amnesty to all female prisoners except those on death row or
25 May 2016, 18:00 PM
25 years' jail sought for Congo militia chief
War crimes prosecutors yesterday called for former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba to be jailed for "at
18 May 2016, 18:00 PM
First missing Chibok girl found
The first of more than 200 schoolgirls missing after being kidnapped by Boko Haram militants from Chibok in
18 May 2016, 18:00 PM
New leader Temer calls for trust
Brazil's new interim President Michel Temer yesterday addressed the nation after the Senate voted to back the
13 May 2016, 18:00 PM
32m face hunger in the region: UN
About 32 million people in southern Africa face hunger after a crippling drought worsened by the El Nino weather
12 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Senate suspends president
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was suspended Thursday to face impeachment, ceding power to her vice president-turned-enemy Michel Temer in a political earthquake ending 13 years of leftist rule over Latin America's biggest nation.
12 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Defiant Rousseff faces impeachment in senate
Brazil's Senate opened debate yesterday ahead of a vote on suspending President Dilma Rousseff and launching an
11 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Boko Haram gunmen kill 11 in Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on horseback killed at least 11 people in northeast Nigeria this week, reports revealed
21 April 2016, 18:00 PM
South American floods kill 12
Severe storms and flooding across South America's "southern cone" have killed at least 12 people and forced
21 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Support grows for Libya's UN-backed unity govt
Libya's UN-backed unity government has won increasing pledges of loyalty as it gradually exerts its authority in the
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM