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World / Africa

Burundi ruling party picks Ndayishimiye to contest presidential vote 26 Jan 2020 - 06:10 pm
In this file photo taken on May 22, 2018 The secretary general of the Burundi's ruling party CNDD-FDD Evariste Ndayishimiye speaks to media in Bujumbra. AFP
Angola may ask Portugal to seize dos Santos' assets, says prosecutor 24 Jan 2020 - 08:43 pm
People enter the EuroBic bank headquarters in Lisbon on January 23, 2020. AFP / Patricia De Melo Moreira
Heavy rain kills dozens in Madagascar 24 Jan 2020 - 07:14 pm
Representative image (AFP / Noel Celis)
Out of court: Ugandans turn to 'barefoot lawyers' to settle land disputes 23 Jan 2020 - 09:36 pm
Pyerina Adong Otto (left) and family at her home in Awach, Uganda, December 5, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Liam Taylor
Angola's ex first daughter Isabel dos Santos charged with fraud 23 Jan 2020 - 10:45 am
 FILE PHOTO: Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angola’s former president, sits for a portrait during a Reuters interview in London, Britain, January 9, 2020. Picture taken on January 9. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
Whatever the weather: Southern Africa tries new hunger fixes 22 Jan 2020 - 06:43 pm
An extension worker provides information to Zambian farmers. (UNCG Zambia Handout / Moses Zangar, Jr. & Georgina Smith)
Abused circus animals arrive at South African sanctuary 21 Jan 2020 - 07:46 pm
View of two lions, from a group of 12 tigers and 5 lions that had been rescued from Guatemalan circuses, before being transferred to South Africa, in Santa Elena Barillas, Colonia San Gregorio, 29km of Guatemala City, on January 18, 2020. AFP / Orlando Es
3 killed, 100-plus hurt in collapse during Ethiopia ceremony 20 Jan 2020 - 06:50 pm
A crowd removes scaffoldings of a structure that collapsed, trapping and injuring dozens of people, during the celebration of Timkat, the Ethiopian Epiphany, in Gondar, Ethiopia, on January 20, 2020. AFP / Eduardo Soteras
South Africa probes death of anti-apartheid activist 38 years on 20 Jan 2020 - 05:18 pm
Neil Aggett (Charcoal on Paper by Amitabh Mitra, CC BY-SA 4.0)
South Africa misses deadline to bail out its national carrier 20 Jan 2020 - 12:37 pm
South African Airways (SAA) Airbus A320-200 aircraft is pictured after landing at Cape Town International Airport in Cape Town, South Africa December 9, 2019. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham/
Comoros votes in election boycotted by opposition 19 Jan 2020 - 09:33 pm
Comoros soldiers are seen in front of a polling station in the Badjanani neighbourhood in Moroni on January 19, 2020. AFP / Ibrahim Youssouf
Suspended in a barrel, South African man set to break ‘pole sitting’ record 19 Jan 2020 - 06:37 pm
An areal view shows Vernon Kruger, 52, holding his face while standing in a barrel at the top of a pole 25 metres above the ground in Dullstroom on January 16, 2020. AFP / Antoine Demaison
Car bomb hits Turkish contractors, police in town outside Somali capital - police 18 Jan 2020 - 01:29 pm
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Slave descendants in tiny South African town battle for church-owned land 17 Jan 2020 - 09:28 pm
Pauline Cloete poses in front of her house for a photo in Elim in the Western Cape, South Africa, 11 December 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Kim Harrisberg
Angolan ex-president dos Santos denies ties to daughter's alleged graft 17 Jan 2020 - 07:17 pm
Isabel Dos Santos, daughter of Angolan former President and Africa's richest woman, sits for a portrait during a Reuters interview in London, Britain, January 9, 2020.  Reuters/Toby Melville
Zimbabwe authorities seize Mugabe nephew's farm 16 Jan 2020 - 07:07 pm
FILE PHOTO: Robert Mugabe kissing his wife Grace Mugabe during the 37th Independence Day celebrations at the National Sports Stadium in Harare on April 18, 2017. AFP / Jekesai Njikizana
3 African nations reach preliminary deal in Nile dam dispute 16 Jan 2020 - 10:35 am
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Women step forward in push to nurture African climate scientists 14 Jan 2020 - 09:50 pm
Women farmers tend their fields at the Tjankwa Irrigation Scheme in Plumtree District, 100km west of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, September 18, 2014. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Busani Bafana