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DR Congo court sentences 54 to death in final verdict on murder of UN experts
Nearly nine years after the killing of two United Nations experts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's High...
Read moreDetailsSouth Africa’s President Ramaphosa moves to diffuse anti-immigrant tensions in TV address
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa moved to diffuse growing anti-immigrant tensions on Sunday with a speech on national television. The...
Read moreDetailsDR Congo says number of confirmed Ebola cases rises to 515
Democratic Republic of Congo said on Sunday that the number of confirmed Ebola cases had increased to 515 after 27...
Read moreDetailsMauritius has not received US proposal on Chagos Islands
Mauritius said on Monday that it had not received any proposal from the Trump administration on the Chagos Islands, after...
Read moreDetailsMost US deportees to DRC returned to home countries, Kinshasa says
More than half of a group of South American migrants deported by the United States to Kinshasa have now left...
Read moreDetailsFrench national gets 20 years in Mali over alleged destabilisation plot
A French national accused by Mali's military-led government of involvement in a plot to destabilise the country last year has...
Read moreDetailsNigeria’s military rescues 360 hostages in Borno state
Nigeria's security forces have freed 360 men, women and children from a mountain hideout where they were being held by...
Read moreDetailsGuinea president’s coalition wins legislative majority, results show
Political parties backing Guinea's coup-leader-turned-president Mamady Doumbouya have won a majority in the bauxite-rich West African country's legislative elections, the...
Read moreDetailsMozambique tightens grip on mining with 15% state stake rule, local processing
Mozambique's President Daniel Chapo has signed a new law requiring 15% state ownership in all mining ventures and local processing...
Read moreDetailsSomali military and opposition-allied militias trade fire ahead of anti-government protests
Government troops and militias allied with the opposition exchanged fire overnight and on Thursday morning in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, damaging...
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