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Nigerian pastor accused of abusing children who fled Boko Haram 29 Oct 2019 - 06:51 pm
Representative image: A woman and her child rest on June 26, 2019 in Benin City, at one of the shelters of the Society For the Empowerment Of Young Persons. AFP / Fati Abubakar
Kenya issues smart ID cards to protect fishing and forests 28 Oct 2019 - 10:05 pm
Armed fishermen return from a fishing expedition aboard a boat on March 24, 2017 near Lowarengak, on the western shores of Lake Turkana, northern Kenya. AFP / Tony Karumba
From hotbed of crime to joggers' paradise: Nairobi forest thrives 25 Oct 2019 - 10:41 pm
People run in Karura forest, Nairobi on September 17, 2019.  AFP / Simon Maina
Deadly Ethiopia unrest poses fresh challenge to Nobel winner 24 Oct 2019 - 06:26 pm
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during a session with the Members of the Parliament in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, October 22, 2019. Reuters/Tiksa Negeri
Ethiopia sees rise in businesses doing good as economy opens up 23 Oct 2019 - 10:47 pm
A woman rescued from prostitution makes jewellery from bullet casings at Ethiopian social enterprise Ellilta Products in Addis Ababa,October 22, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Belinda Goldsmith
African slum map exposes true scale of urban poverty 23 Oct 2019 - 10:16 pm
A child stands behind pit latrines made of rusted iron sheets in Kibera slum within Nairobi, Kenya, February 24, 2019. Reuters / Njeri Mwangi
Peacebuilding in Somalia - another victim of climate change? 23 Oct 2019 - 10:16 pm
Women carry jerry cans of water from shallow wells dug from the sand along the Shabelle River bed which is dry due to drought in Somalian Shabelle region, March 19, 2016. Reuters / Feisal Omar
Khama family, Botswana political royalty, faces election setback 22 Oct 2019 - 11:20 pm
 Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) supporter holds up a poster during an election campaign rally in Mokgweetsi Masisi's, President of Botswana and leader of the BDP, home village in Moshupa, on October 22, 2019. AFP / Monirul Bhuiyan
More than 100 elephants die in Botswana in suspected anthrax outbreak 22 Oct 2019 - 10:41 pm
The marked carcass of an elephant is seen, after reports that conservationists have discovered 87 of them slaughtered just in the last few months, in the Mababe area, Botswana, September 19, 2018. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko
South Sudan's former child soldiers struggle to move on 22 Oct 2019 - 06:31 pm
FILE PHOTO: Soldiers of the Sudan People Liberation Army celebrate while standing in trenches in Lelo outside Malakal, northern South Sudan on October 16, 2016. AFP / Albert Gonzalez Farran
Namibian president set for re-election next month amid economic crisis 18 Oct 2019 - 05:47 pm
Hage Gottfried Geingob, president of Namibia, looks on during a session of the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, September 5, 2019. Reuters/Sumaya Hisham
S. Africa hit by rolling blackouts as state utility struggles 16 Oct 2019 - 12:32 pm
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In the dark: Electricity a 'luxury' in poor Madagascar 15 Oct 2019 - 06:43 pm
People are seen ahead of Pope Francis' recent arrival for a prayer vigil with youth at the Soamandrakizay Mess site in Antananarivo, Madagascar, September 7, 2019. Reuters / Yara Nardi
Mozambique votes in tense election after violent campaign 15 Oct 2019 - 01:09 pm
A Mozambican man receives his ballot at a voting station in a school during the Mozambican General Elections on October 15, 2019 in Maputo, Mozambique. / AFP / GIANLUIGI GUERCIA
Secret abortions spike in Nigeria with Boko Haram chaos 14 Oct 2019 - 08:21 pm
A gas filling station destroyed by Boko Haram in Bama, in northeast Nigeria where a Boko Haram insurgency displaced more than 2 million people. AFP / Stefan Heunis
176 migrants rescued off Libya, 110 others turned back 13 Oct 2019 - 05:10 pm
Rwanda's Ministry of Emergency Management (MINEMA) teken on October 10, 2019, shows the arrival of 123 Africal refugees and asylum seekers, mostly Eritreans, from Libya supported by Rwanda's UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, at the Kigali international airpor
Ethiopia 'proud as a nation' of Abiy Nobel win: PM's office 11 Oct 2019 - 01:10 pm
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. / AFP / MICHAEL TEWELDE / File Photo
Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed wins 2019 Nobel Peace Prize 11 Oct 2019 - 11:56 am
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. (REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo)