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World's second largest diamond found in Botswana 22 Aug 2024 - 08:24 pm
Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi holds a large diamond discovered in Botswana at his office in Gaborone on August 22, 2024. (Photo by Monirul Bhuiyan / AFP)
Somalia threatens to suspend Ethiopian Airlines over sovereignty spat 21 Aug 2024 - 09:14 pm
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Dutch, Zimbabwean nationals killed in Malawi plane crash 21 Aug 2024 - 07:28 pm
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South Africa's national zoo frees its last elephant 21 Aug 2024 - 07:17 pm
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Congo reports more than 1,000 new mpox cases in a week. African authorities ask for vaccines 21 Aug 2024 - 03:35 pm
Democratic Republic of Congo Health minister Samuel-Roger Kamba addresses a press conference in Kinshasa on August 19, 2024 Cases of the mpox virus are rising in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the central African country awaits vaccines from the United States and Japan, the health minister said on Monday. Photo by Hardy_Bope / AFP.
Senegal 'agri-influencers' seek to shake up key sector 21 Aug 2024 - 11:19 am
Agro-influencer Mame Abdou Diop, prepares social media content in his mango orchard in Gadiaga, Thies region, on 25 July 2024. (Photo by SEYLLOU / AFP)
Blinken hopes Sudan humanitarian progress brings broader deal 21 Aug 2024 - 12:44 am
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to reporters on the tarmac in Doha on August 20, 2024. (Photo by Kevin MOHATT / POOL / AFP)
One person dies from mpox in Ivory Coast 21 Aug 2024 - 12:04 am
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Somalia traders shut businesses to protest sales tax 20 Aug 2024 - 10:47 pm
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Uganda says destroys fugitive LRA leader's camps in Central Africa 20 Aug 2024 - 06:31 pm
(FILES) Soldiers of the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) patrol in Zemio, in the northeastern part of the Central African Republic to secure the area from rebel groups' possible attacks, on June 25, 2014. (Photo by Michele SIBILONI / AFP)
Algerian Foreign Minister and Lebanese counterpart discuss developments in Lebanon 20 Aug 2024 - 05:25 pm
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Kenya to reintroduce some tax proposals that sparked deadly protests 19 Aug 2024 - 07:49 pm
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Education Above All Foundation condemns recent shelling of school in Sudan’s El Obeid district 19 Aug 2024 - 03:47 pm
Children play outside of a classroom at the a school in Birao on August 12, 2024. Photo by Amaury Falt-Brown / AFP.
Kenya govt plans to reinstate some taxes to raise $1.2 bn 19 Aug 2024 - 01:50 pm
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Sudan government agrees to send delegation to Cairo 18 Aug 2024 - 06:42 pm
Members of Sudan's armed forces take part in a military parade held on the occasion of Army Day in Port Sudan on August 14, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Libya central bank 'suspends all operations' after official abducted 18 Aug 2024 - 04:31 pm
People cross a street at Martyrs Square in Tripoli, Libya, July 5, 2021. REUTERS/Hazem Ahmed/File Photo
Twenty medical students kidnapped in Nigeria 17 Aug 2024 - 08:18 pm
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Fear grips east DR Congo as displaced await mpox vaccine 17 Aug 2024 - 08:09 pm
Health workers walk between wards at the Mpox treatment centre at Nyiragongo General Referral Hospital, north of Goma on August 17, 2024. (Photo by GUERCHOM NDEBO / AFP)