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Tunisia transport workers strike amid economic woes 02 Jan 2023 - 10:41 pm
Tunisians are pictured next to a tram station in the capital Tunis' Ariana district, on January 2, 2023, after a strike by the public transport employees was announced the night before. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Egypt recovers 2,700-year-old sarcophagus lid from US 02 Jan 2023 - 08:16 pm
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (center right) and the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri (center left) are surrounded by journalists as they inspect an ancient Egyptian wooden sarcophagus being handed over and which was formerly displayed at Houston Museum of Natural Sciences after having been looted and smuggled years prior, at the foreign ministry headquarters in the capital Cairo on January 2, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
Two Senegal MPs get six-month terms for hitting colleague 02 Jan 2023 - 04:44 pm
A man holds a Senegalese flag outside the Parliament in Dakar on September 12, 2022.  File Photo / AFP
Cholera deaths surge in Malawi, keeping schools closed 02 Jan 2023 - 01:57 pm
Pilirani Wanja, a clinician at Ndirande Health Centre, demonstrates to clients how to take the cholera vaccine in response to the latest cholera outbreak in Blantyre, Malawi, November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Eldson Chagara/File Photo
At least 20 people killed in clashes in Somaliland 01 Jan 2023 - 07:11 pm
A general view of downtown Hargeisa on May 16, 2016. File Photo / AFP
Moroccans cross into Spain's Melilla enclave: rights group 01 Jan 2023 - 05:38 pm
Moroccan soldiers walk on the Moroccan side of a border fence with Spain's north African enclave of Melilla, in this picture taken on the Spanish side of the fence, December 12, 2014. File Photo / Reuters
Children among nine dead in Uganda New Year stampede 01 Jan 2023 - 03:52 pm
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Nine die in Uganda New Year stampede: police 01 Jan 2023 - 01:16 pm
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Morocco to ban arrivals from China over COVID surge 31 Dec 2022 - 10:36 pm
A medical worker in a protective suit checks a thermometer for a patient at the entrance to the fever clinic of the Central Hospital of Wuhan, amid of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on December 31, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang
Mudslides kill at least 10 miners in eastern DR Congo 31 Dec 2022 - 09:02 pm
This file photo taken on November 26, 2019 shows a road surface swept away by a landslide caused by torrential overnight rains in the Lemba district of the capital Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (AFP)
DR Congo recalls ambassador to France over suspected graft 31 Dec 2022 - 08:41 pm
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Several killed in Somaliland protests against govt 31 Dec 2022 - 07:26 pm
 Muse Bihi Abdi of Somaliland speaks during a news conference on October 10, 2018. Picture taken October 10, 2018. File Photo / Reuters
South Africa fuel tanker blast death toll climbs to 34 30 Dec 2022 - 04:04 pm
People gather near a burnt out truck at the entrance of the damaged bridge where a gas tanker exploded in Boksburg near Johannesburg, South Africa, December 24, 2022. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham/File Photo
Fresh clashes between M23, rival militias erupt in east DR Congo 29 Dec 2022 - 09:28 pm
Soldiers of the South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF) prepare to be deployed to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after their departure ceremony at the SSPDF Headquarters in Juba on December 28, 2022.  (Photo by Samir BOL / AFP)
Ethiopian federal police deploy in Tigray after peace deal 29 Dec 2022 - 08:15 pm
File Photo: Ethiopian Federal policemen stand at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 11, 2019. (REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri)
Three charged over 'racist' fight at South Africa pool 29 Dec 2022 - 07:53 pm
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks during the 55th National Conference of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, on December 16, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
Nine killed in fighting in Sudan's Darfur 29 Dec 2022 - 05:53 pm
Sudan's Darfur is still reeling from years of civil war, and clashes between ethnic groups often erupt over land and water in the arid region.  ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP
Sudanese general leads mission to South Darfur after violent clashes 29 Dec 2022 - 05:15 pm
General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, Deputy Head of the Sudan Transitional Military Council, attends the signing ceremony of the agreement on peace and ceasefire in Juba, South Sudan October 21, 2019. File Photo / Reuters