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Kenya airport strike disrupts flights 11 Sep 2024 - 10:29 am
Passengers wait at a closed door at the departures of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi on September 11, 2024. (Photo by Simon Maina / AFP)
Dam collapse in Nigeria sweeps deadly reptiles into flooded communities 10 Sep 2024 - 07:19 pm
This aerial view shows houses submerged under water in Maiduguri on September 10, 2024. Photo by Audu MARTE / AFP
First doses of mpox vaccine from the United States arrive in Congo 10 Sep 2024 - 04:34 pm
This handout photograph taken and released by the European Union's Press Service on September 5, 2024, shows a policeman gesturing during the reception of a batch of MPOX vaccines donated by European Union at the tarmac of the Kinshasa International Airport in the Nsele district of Kinshasa. Photo by EUROPEAN UNION / AFP.
Libyan city Derna scarred by disaster tries to rebuild a year after deadly flooding 10 Sep 2024 - 04:06 pm
This overview shows ongoing construction work on a bridge in Libya's eastern coastal city of Derna on September 9, 2024. Photo by Khaled Nasraoui / AFP.
Ugandan athlete Cheptegei's attacker dies in hospital 10 Sep 2024 - 11:18 am
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Chad flooding leaves 341 dead, 1.5 million affected: UN 09 Sep 2024 - 08:53 pm
Peninsula
Flooding kills more than a dozen people in Morocco and Algeria 09 Sep 2024 - 04:26 pm
Residents walk on a flooded street in Morocco's Ouarzazate city on September 7, 2024. Photo by Abderahim ELBCIR / AFP
Fuel tanker explosion in Nigeria kills at least 59 09 Sep 2024 - 04:18 pm
This video grab from footage provided by the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) shows flames and smoke billowing from a fuel tanker that exploded after colliding with a truck carrying passengers and cattle on a route in Niger state's Agaie local government district on September 8, 2024. Photo by Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) / AFP
Kenya starts DNA testing for school fire victims 09 Sep 2024 - 02:48 pm
Family members react after visiting the burned dorm room at the Nyeri county's Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri county on September 6, 2024. Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP
'We won't negotiate': Ethiopia PM issues warning over sovereignty 08 Sep 2024 - 11:32 pm
Peninsula
Fuel tanker collision in Nigeria caused explosion; killed at least 48 people 08 Sep 2024 - 10:27 pm
Representational image / File photo of an explosion in Nigeria
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is elected to serve second term in Algeria 08 Sep 2024 - 08:28 pm
A handout picture released by the Algerian Presidency Facebook page, shows Algeria's incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune leaving a polling station after voting in Algiers on September 7, 2024. Photo by ALGERIAN PRESIDENCY FACEBOOK PAGE / AFP.
UN official says Sudan's war has killed at least 20,000 people 08 Sep 2024 - 04:23 pm
Displaced Sudanese who have returned from Ethiopia gather in a camp run by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Sudan's border town of Gallabat on September 4, 2024. Photo by AFP.
Fire breaks out at Kenya girls' school 07 Sep 2024 - 10:32 pm
Family members react after visiting the burned dorm room at the Nyeri county's Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri county on September 6, 2024 after a fire broke out killing 17 children. Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP.
Algerians vote as Tebboune eyes easy re-election 07 Sep 2024 - 09:36 pm
An Algerian man votes at a polling station during the presidential election, in Algiers on September 7, 2024. Photo by AFP.
Anguished parents wait for news after Kenya school fire kills 17 07 Sep 2024 - 09:09 am
A woman reacts after visiting the burned dorm room at the Nyeri county's Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri county on September 6, 2024. (Photo by Simon Maina / AFP)
West Africa flooding displaces nearly 950,000 people 06 Sep 2024 - 11:54 pm
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UN says more than 700,000 affected by South Sudan floods 06 Sep 2024 - 02:17 pm
Sudanese army soldiers look on as people use a boat in an inundated area in Tokar in the Red Sea State, following recent heavy flooding in eastern Sudan, on September 5, 2024. Photo by AFP