CHAIRMAN: DR. KHALID BIN THANI AL THANI
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World / Africa

Ten dead in latest massacre in eastern DR Congo 16 Dec 2019 - 10:50 pm
File Photo: A woman reacts after five other women were killed in Paida, near Beni, North Kivu Province of Democratic Republic of Congo, December 7, 2018. Reuters/Goran Tomasevic
Uganda's refugee farmers sow seeds of change 16 Dec 2019 - 08:05 pm
Emily Bronte's wife cooks over a fire at the family's home in the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement. Yumbe district, Uganda. Picture taken Nov. 29, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Claire Cozens
Ethiopia tensions could force election delay: report 16 Dec 2019 - 08:05 pm
Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed with parliament speaker Muferiat Kamil inside the House of Peoples Representatives in Addis Ababa, July 6, 2018. Reuters / Tiksa Negeri
Report accuses Malawi police of extrajudicial killings 15 Dec 2019 - 08:14 pm
An aerial view of fishing boats on the shore of the Lake Malawi at the Senga village on May 20, 2019 in Senga, Malawi. AFP / Gianluigi Guercia
Boko Haram kill 19 Nigeria herders in clashes: sources 15 Dec 2019 - 02:08 pm
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Rebel attack on Congolese city leaves 6 dead 14 Dec 2019 - 04:07 pm
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'Forgotten crisis' as drought displaces hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians 13 Dec 2019 - 10:25 pm
Ethiopia is struggling from its worst drought for 30 years (AFP / Joel Robine)
Women want in as internet revolution creeps into Chad 13 Dec 2019 - 10:25 pm
Entrepreneurs Falmata Awada and Zam-zam Djorkode give a demonstration of their mobile health app in N'Djamena, Chad, November 21, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Nellie Peyton
Twenty-eight killed in Nigeria road smash 13 Dec 2019 - 01:30 pm
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Mali set sights on political talks in bid to defuse jihadist crisis 12 Dec 2019 - 05:34 pm
Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is seen during a celebration a new national holiday in Abuja, Nigeria, June 12, 2019. Reuters / Afolabi Sotunde
South African power cuts set to continue as some Eskom units still down 12 Dec 2019 - 09:35 am
 In this file photo taken on June 13, 2019 A farmer works with its tractor in front of the Kendal Power Station located in eMalahleni , part of the Highveld region turned over to mines and power plants. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on December
Central African Republic: Alleged militia leaders face trial 11 Dec 2019 - 06:42 pm
In this file photo taken on October 29, 2018 members of the armed forces arrest Central African MP Alfred Yekatom aka
Scaled back power cuts set to continue in South Africa 11 Dec 2019 - 10:20 am
File photo of the logo of state power utility Eskom, March 20, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo
Rape map and murdered women - welcome to South Africa's Republic of Sexual Abuse 10 Dec 2019 - 11:23 pm
Women hold placards as they protest against gender-based violence, outside the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 13, 2019. Reuters/Marius Bosch
US sanctions 5 South Sudan agents it says killed 2 critics 10 Dec 2019 - 11:07 pm
File photo of Rwandese UN peacekeepers in South Sudan. AFP
Refugee girls in Chad embrace school as path to university opens up 10 Dec 2019 - 08:54 pm
Mouna Issahk poses for a portrait with her daughter at her school in Touloum refugee camp, Iriba, Chad, November 27, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Nellie Peyton
Pressured at home, Ethiopia PM picks up Nobel Peace Prize 10 Dec 2019 - 12:53 pm
Ethiopia's Prime Minister and this year's Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Abiy Ahmed Ali (C) signs the Nobel Protocol at his arrival in Oslo, Norway, on December 9, 2019; behind (From L) members of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize comitee Asle Toje, chairwoman
Charity sues Kenya over treatment of trafficked Indian, Nepali women 09 Dec 2019 - 10:14 pm
A Bangladeshi trafficking survivor shows a drawing she has made of her house at a shelter in West Bengal, India, Sept 9, 2019. Thomson Reuters / Foundation Roli Srivastava