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Attack kills 20 in Nigeria’s central Plateau attack
Police in Nigeria's central Plateau state said on Tuesday that 20 people had been killed in a weekend attack on...
Read moreDetailsConstruction of US-backed Ebola facility in Kenya halted, minister says
Kenya's health minister said on Tuesday he had ordered an immediate halt to the construction of a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine...
Read moreDetailsDR Congo says confirmed Ebola cases rise to 1003, including 254 deaths
Confirmed cases in the Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths, officials said in a...
Read moreDetailsEthiopian prime minister’s party gets another big parliamentary majority
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party won another large parliamentary majority in this month's elections, results released by the national...
Read moreDetailsSenegal trade minister says government ready to restructure if necessary
Senegal's minister of industry and trade, Serigne Gueye Diop, speaking on state TV late on Sunday, signalled that the country...
Read moreDetailsNamibia’s communication regulator dismisses Starlink appeal over license rejection
Namibia's communications regulator said on Monday it dismissed an appeal by Starlink against the rejection of its license applications, reaffirming...
Read moreDetailsNamibia says it is being removed from financial crime watchdog’s ‘grey list’
Namibia said on Friday that Paris-based financial crime watchdog the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) was removing it from its...
Read moreDetailsZimbabwe’s leader makes another move to consolidate power
Emmerson Mnangagwa's political skills may have earned him the nickname "The Crocodile", but it still took half a century of...
Read moreDetailsAfrican, Caribbean states back slavery reparations plan at Ghana meeting
African and Caribbean nations on Friday demanded formal apologies from countries that benefited from transatlantic slavery, as well as debt...
Read moreDetailsVietnamese man deported to South Sudan by US leaves for home
A Vietnamese man deported by the United States to South Sudan a year ago as part of the Trump administration's...
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