UN rights chief deplores abuse reports in Ethiopia's Tigray
21 June 2021
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Africa & rest of the world
Ghana plants 5 million trees in single day to combat deforestation
12 June 2021
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Climate action
‘This IS INSANE’: Africa desperately short of COVID vaccine
9 June 2021
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Coronavirus
Nigeria suspended Twitter days after president's post removed
5 June 2021
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Careers
African Union suspends Mali after military coup and threatens sanctions
2 June 2021
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Africa & rest of the world
Mali president and prime minister freed by military after resigning
27 May 2021
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Africa & rest of the world
Suspected ADF militants kill 22 with knives, machetes in eastern Congo
26 May 2021
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Africa & rest of the world
Mali's president and prime minister resign following military takeover
26 May 2021
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Africa & rest of the world
Military detain Mali's president, prime minister and defence minister
25 May 2021
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Africa & rest of the world
Court allows Suez Canal to keep holding container ship that blocked traffic
23 May 2021
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Africa & rest of the world
7,000 migrants detained in Libya
Between 7,000 and 8,000 migrants mostly from sub-Saharan Africa are being held in Libyan detention centres after
10 May 2017
S Sudan child refugees top one million: UN
War has now forced more than one million children to flee South Sudan and uprooted 1.4 million others within the
8 May 2017
35 killed in school bus crash in Tanzania
Thirty-two schoolchildren, two teachers and a minibus driver where killed in Tanzania when their vehicle plunged into
7 May 2017
35 killed in Tanzania school minibus crash
Thirty-two schoolchildren, two teachers and a minibus driver are killed in Tanzania when their vehicle plunged into a roadside ravine in the northern tourist region of Arusha, a senior police official says.
7 May 2017
Five dead in suicide attack in Nigeria
Five people were killed in two suicide bombings in northeast Nigeria, police said yesterday, in the latest attacks blamed
5 May 2017
Forces mistakenly kill Somali minister
Somalia's minister of public works and reconstruction Abbas Abdullahi Siraji, 31, was killed in Mogadishu on Wednesday in what was
4 May 2017
Nigeria's leader urged to take medical leave
Nigerian civil society activists called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take long-term medical leave yesterday,
2 May 2017
Obama did everything to beat me
Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan has blamed Barack Obama for his 2015 presidential election defeat to Muhammadu
27 April 2017
20 people dead as boat capsizes in Senegal
At least 20 people, almost all women, were killed when a wooden boat capsized off Senegal's central coast in a delta region popular with
25 April 2017
Three nations chosen to test first vaccine
Ghana, Kenya and Malawi will pilot the world's first malaria vaccine from 2018, offering it for babies and children in high-risk areas as
24 April 2017
S Sudan violence amounts to 'genocide': UK
Targeted killings of specific ethnic groups in South Sudan's civil war amount to "genocide", according to Britain's International
13 April 2017
22 dead in blaze at Senegal retreat
A fire tore through makeshift straw shelters at a Muslim religious retreat in Senegal, killing at least 22 people and triggering a stampede,
13 April 2017
Graft probes target 9 Brazil ministers
Brazil's corruption crisis struck the heart of President Michel Temer's government Tuesday with the opening of probes
12 April 2017
Risk of mass starvation rapidly rising in Africa, Yemen, UN warns
The risk of mass starvation in four countries -- northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen - -is rapidly rising due to drought and conflict, the UN refugee agency says.
11 April 2017
ANC backs Zuma in reshuffle dispute
South Africa's embattled President Jacob Zuma yesterday won the backing of the ruling ANC party, which rejected calls
5 April 2017
S Africa's top trade union tells Zuma to go
South Africa's powerful trade union federation Cosatu, a key coalition partner of the ruling ANC, yesterday called for embattled President
4 April 2017
Boko Haram kidnap 22 girls, women in Nigeria
Boko Haram Islamists have abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in northeast Nigeria, residents and
1 April 2017
'Real' Syria peace talks yet to start
The UN has said "incremental" progress was made during a fifth round of talks between Syria's warring parties, but
1 April 2017
Anti-apartheid icon Kathrada dies
Celebrated South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, a Robben Island prisoner and one of Nelson
28 March 2017
Kenyan forces kill 31 Shabaab militants in raid
Kenyan troops in Somalia killed 31 Islamist al Shabaab militants in a raid on two of their bases in the southern Somali
27 March 2017