Africa

Somalia's government has ordered private companies - including telecommunication firms and money transfer banks - to register their businesses and clients with the authorities to curb…
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At least 73 migrants are missing and presumed dead after their boat sank off the Libyan coast, according to the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM). Only seven…
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Angry protests have broken out in some Nigerian towns and cities as people struggle to get hold of new banknotes. Frustration has been building for weeks after a shortage of the…
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South Africa declared a national disaster on Monday after heavy rains left seven of its nine provinces flooded, destroying roads and bridges and leaving farmers suffering losses. …
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The authorities in Equatorial Guinea on Monday said the country had reported its first outbreak of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family of viruses that…
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The Nigerian military has denied a claim by the governing party that it is planning to disrupt the upcoming presidential election. An official from the APC party had said that…
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A court in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced seven soldiers to death for cowardice in the face of the enemy and murder. They were found to have fled…
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Somalia has reopened its embassy in the UK after 32 years. In a ceremony attended by ambassador Abdulkadir Ahmed Kheyr, Olympic champion Mo Farah and Somali-Canadian…
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Renowned rapper Kiernan Forbes, popularly known as AKA, has been shot and killed in Durban. The famed hip-hop star was just 35. KwaZulu-Natal police say the multi-award winner and…
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The Nigerian National Universities Commission (NUC) has ordered the country's universities to close from 22 February to 14 March because of the general elections, which will be held on…
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