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Only two survivors rescued after boat overturned off Libyan coast, UN migration agency says …
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Ebo Taylor, Ghanaian highlife pioneer and guitarist, dies age 90
Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, …
Lue lisää »53 dead or missing after migrant boat capsizes in Mediterranean
Only two survivors rescued in tragedy off Libyan coast, UN migration agency says The …
Lue lisää »Weather tracker: Spain and Portugal hit by third fatal storm
Storm Marta sweeps Iberian peninsula just days after Storms Kristin and Leonardo brought deadly …
Lue lisää »RSF drone attack kills 24 people fleeing fighting in central Sudan, says doctors group
Eight children including two infants among dead in vehicle carrying displaced people, says Sudan …
Lue lisää »Thousands of Malawi businesses close in protest over tax changes
Peaceful demonstrations force a delay in measures aimed at improving revenue collection but which …
Lue lisää »Weather Tracker: Storm Leonardo continues to batter Europe and northern Africa
Spain and Portugal hit with torrential rain while flash floods in Morocco force more …
Lue lisää »Nigeria sends troops to villages attacked by jihadist fighters
President says army will ‘checkmate barbaric terrorists’ who attacked Woro and Nuku in Kwara …
Lue lisää »Gunmen have killed at least 162 people in west Nigeria attack, says Red Cross
Government blames ‘terrorist cells’ for attack in Woro village, one of country’s deadliest in …
Lue lisää »Ugandan opposition leader still in hiding as feud with president’s son escalates
Bobi Wine’s whereabouts unknown since he fled what he said was night raid on …
Lue lisää »Death of Nigerian singer highlights crisis of ‘preventable’ snakebite fatalities
Ifunanya Nwangene died in hospital after being bitten in her Abuja home, raising questions …
Lue lisää »Trump-led abuses amid ‘democratic recession’ put human rights in peril, HRW report says
Rights group says growing authoritarianism and abuses in US, Russia and China threaten global …
Lue lisää »Sick and wounded Palestinians enter Egypt after Israel reopens Rafah crossing
About 150 people expected to leave Gaza on first day border is unsealed out …
Lue lisää »Israel agrees to limited reopening of Rafah border crossing in Gaza
Tens of thousands of ill and wounded Palestinians await evacuation as diplomatic efforts inch …
Lue lisää »Weather tracker: Cyclone Fytia in Madagascar kills several people and floods homes
Island’s first tropical storm of season may bring 150mm of rain – meanwhile, eastern …
Lue lisää »International law meant to limit effects of war at breaking point, study finds
Report covering 23 conflicts over last 18 months concludes more than 100,000 civilians have …
Lue lisää »More than 200 killed in coltan mine collapse in eastern DRC, officials say
Rubaya mine produces about 15% of the world’s coltan, which is processed into tantalum, …
Lue lisää »Islamic State claims attack on international airport and airbase in Niger
Motorcycle-riding militants launch strikes using heavy weaponry and drones, damaging planes belonging to Ivorian …
Lue lisää »South Africa expels top Israeli diplomat over ‘insulting attacks’ on president
Ariel Seidman declared persona non grata and given 72 hours to leave country after …
Lue lisää »Gunfire and blasts heard at airport in Niger with planes hit – reports
Source says two aircraft on ground ‘destroyed’ although authorities yet to comment on situation …
Lue lisää »Hundreds feared dead in attempt to cross Mediterranean during cyclone
Fifty killed in one incident as Italian authorities estimate 380 people may have drowned …
Lue lisää »Crocodile warnings as floods devastate southern Africa
More than 100 people killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in South Africa, Mozambique …
Lue lisää »‘It’s the sovereignty of the country’: Guinea-Bissau says US vaccine study suspended
Despite US pushback, officials in west Africa say controversial hepatitis B study on pause …
Lue lisää »‘It has been overwhelming’: Sudanese friends complete 900-mile UK walk
Giel Malual and John Kuei trekked from Dungeness to John o’Groats to raise funds …
Lue lisää »ActionAid to rethink child sponsorship as part of plan to ‘decolonise’ its work
Development charity’s new co-chairs signal shift from controversial sponsor a child scheme launched in …
Lue lisää »US diplomats urged to remind African leaders of US ‘generosity’ despite USAID closing
Email sent by chief of state department’s African affairs bureau to his staff dismissing …
Lue lisää »‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn, says Oxfam
Governments opting for oligarchy while brutally repressing protests over austerity and lack of jobs, …
Lue lisää »Uganda’s president calls opponents ‘terrorists’ in victory speech
Yoweri Museveni wins seventh term but poll criticised by observers and rights groups over …
Lue lisää »Yoweri Museveni wins Ugandan election as opponent condemns ‘fake result’
Museveni’s opponent, Bobi Wine, alleges that members of polling staff were kidnapped and called …
Lue lisää »Confidence runs high in London’s Little Morocco as Afcon glory beckons
Atlas Lions face Senegal in final of Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday and …
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