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World / Africa

Uganda set to declare end of Ebola outbreak 09 Jan 2023 - 02:53 pm
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Benin elects lawmakers, with opposition allowed to stand 08 Jan 2023 - 09:46 pm
Members of the observers and the CENA (Commission Electorale Nationale Autonome) check the number of votes following the legislative elections at the public primary school, Charles Guillot de Zongo in Cotonou on January 8, 2023. (Photo by Yanick Folly / AFP)
Tunisia opposition say police tried to block rally 08 Jan 2023 - 09:33 pm
Tunisian demonstrators blocked by police during a rally against their president, in the capital Tunis, on June 4, 2022. (AFP)
Gunmen kidnap 32 people from southern Nigeria train station 08 Jan 2023 - 09:09 pm
File Photo: Abuja-Kaduna train resumes services after an attack on its passengers in Abuja, Nigeria December 5, 2022. (REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde)
South Africa's Eskom says police investigating alleged poisoning of CEO 08 Jan 2023 - 06:58 pm
Andre de Ruyter, Group Chief Executive of state-owned power utility Eskom speaks during a media briefing in Johannesburg, South Africa, January 31, 2020. File Photo / Reuters
Senegal declares national mourning after bus crash kills dozens 08 Jan 2023 - 05:34 pm
A general view of the scene of a bus accident in Kaffrine, central Senegal, on January 8, 2023 where at least 38 people have died and scores were injured when two buses collided. (Photo by Cheikh Dieng / AFP)
Suspected Mozambican kidnap king arrested in South Africa 08 Jan 2023 - 05:21 pm
South African law enforcement officers patrol an area of Cape Town on October 12, 2022.  File Photo / Reuters
Dozens killed in Senegal bus accident 08 Jan 2023 - 03:31 pm
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46 Ivorian soldiers depart Mali after pardon 07 Jan 2023 - 09:39 pm
Local residents read the headlines of local newspapers after the release of 46 Ivorian soldiers arrested in July 2022 in Mali, in Abidjan on January 7, 2023.  (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)
Algerian poet, ex-minister says won't run for president 07 Jan 2023 - 06:41 pm
A man walks on a pavement in Algiers, Algeria, December 17, 2020. File Photo / Reuters
South  Sudan journalists detained over viral Kiir video 07 Jan 2023 - 04:26 pm
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir attends a meeting on the cutting of the number of states from 32 to 10, at the State House in Juba, South Sudan February 15, 2020. File Photo / Reuters
South Africa has its first case of most transmissible Covid variant 07 Jan 2023 - 01:02 pm
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Nigeria to bar cash withdrawals from government accounts 06 Jan 2023 - 09:26 pm
A person holds a new 1000 Naira note as the Central Bank of Nigeria releases the notes to the public through the banks in Abuja, Nigeria, December 15, 2022. (REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde)
Ivorian troops on trial in Mali as deadline looms in row 05 Jan 2023 - 10:01 pm
Colonel Assimi Goita, leader of Malian military junta. File Photo / Reuters
Worst cholera outbreak in decades in Malawi kills 643 people 05 Jan 2023 - 07:37 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. File Photo / Reuters
Mauritania bars accused ex-president from leaving country 05 Jan 2023 - 04:57 pm
Mauritania's former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz / Reuters file photo  
Tunisia lawyers protest tax hike on legal services 05 Jan 2023 - 04:29 pm
Tunisian lawyers wear a red armband during a lawyers sit in protest against the new finance law, in front of the Tunis court, on January 5, 2023. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Mali avoids sanctions over detention of Ivorian soldiers 04 Jan 2023 - 11:31 pm
Mali's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Abdoulaye Diop attends a news in Moscow, Russia, on May 20, 2022. File Photo / Reuters