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South Sudan president calls for calm after deadly attack on government forces, UN aircraft 07 Mar 2025 - 08:37 pm
File photo: South Sudan's President Salva Kiir addresses the second session of the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU) at the Parliament in South Sudan's capital Juba, February 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jok Solomon
Ethiopia launches air strikes against al-Shabab in Somalia 07 Mar 2025 - 08:11 pm
Members of Somalia's al Shabaab militia parade at Ala Yaasir camp at KM50 out of Mogadishu, Somalia, on September 3, 2011. File Photo / Reuters
Two dead, 186 missing as migrant boats capsize off Yemen and Djibouti coasts 07 Mar 2025 - 04:42 pm
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UN Security Council warns against formation of parallel government in Sudan 06 Mar 2025 - 06:21 pm
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Ethiopian company launches electric scooters production 06 Mar 2025 - 12:07 am
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Mali suspends artisanal mining permits granted to foreigners 06 Mar 2025 - 12:03 am
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Leak at new gas field off Senegal, Mauritania 05 Mar 2025 - 05:47 pm
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Dozens of Kenyans rescued from scam centres stuck in Myanmar 03 Mar 2025 - 11:07 pm
Members of the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) carry out an inspection at a work place during a crackdown operation on illicit activity linked to scam centres in Shwe Kokko in Myanmar's eastern Myawaddy township on February 18, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
Egypt rejects attempts to form parallel Sudanese govt: statement 03 Mar 2025 - 01:14 am
Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty (R) receives Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Yousuf al-Sharif for a meeting at the New Administrative Capital, about 45 kilometres east of Cairo, on February 23, 2025. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
Uganda reports second death from Ebola outbreak 01 Mar 2025 - 07:05 pm
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Ramadan in war-torn Sudan eclipsed by famine and inflation 01 Mar 2025 - 01:14 pm
A truck drives past a Sudanese army tank at the entrance of Wad Madani in Sudan's al-Jazira state on February 20, 2025, after the regular army forces reclaimed the area from its rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last month. Wad Madani -- the capital of pre-war breadbasket Jazira state -- became a fierce battleground when RSF forces descended on the city in December 2023, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee amid reports of summary executions and systematic violence. (Photo by AFP)
Ethiopian Airlines launches passenger flight to Portugal's Porto 28 Feb 2025 - 10:39 pm
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60 people killed in Zimbabwe's rainfall-related incidents 28 Feb 2025 - 04:58 pm
Residents are seen protecting themselves by the rain in the aftermath of the passage of the cyclone Idai in Beira, Mozambique, on March 17, 2019. AFP / ADRIEN BARBIER
Mauritius, La Reunion on high alert for dangerous cyclone 27 Feb 2025 - 06:49 pm
People watch as waves lash against the shore in Saint-Denis de la Reunion, on the French overseas territory island of La Reunion, as the tropical cyclone
Military plane crashes near Sudan capital: military source 25 Feb 2025 - 11:49 pm
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Sudan threatens to retaliate against Kenya for hosting paramilitary forces' activities 25 Feb 2025 - 12:47 am
Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo (C), Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) deputy commander and brother to Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (also known as Hemedti), flanked by representatives of other political parties affiliated to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces react as they arrive at the venue ahead of their planned signing of the Government of Peace and Unity Charter, at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi on February 18, 2025. (Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP)
South Africa's national tourism agency urges African countries to forge continental partnerships 24 Feb 2025 - 05:50 pm
This photo taken on Aug. 10, 2023 shows the view of Johannesburg, South Africa. (Xinhua)
17 rare mountain bongos repatriated to Kenya 24 Feb 2025 - 05:30 pm
File photo: Two out of the five critically endangered Mountain Bongos (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) run after being released into the Mawingu Mountain Bongo Sanctuary near Nanyuki, Kenya, March 9, 2022. Picture taken March 9, 2022. REUTERS/Baz Ratner