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Spain busts criminals smuggling e-waste to Africa 03 Jan 2023 - 06:05 pm
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Tunisia opposition says hit by politically motivated probes 03 Jan 2023 - 05:03 pm
Demonstrators hold loaves of bread as they protest in opposition to a referendum on a new constitution called by President Kais Saied, in Tunis, Tunisia June 18, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
DR Congo rebels have not retreated from key town, say locals 02 Jan 2023 - 11:23 pm
Congolese M23 rebels are seen as they withdraw from the 3 antennes location in Kibumba, near Goma, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, December 23, 2022. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi
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)

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Natividad Martinez (R), mother of private Saul Pereira, visits his grave at the General Cemetery of the South in Caracas on January 18, 2026. (Photo by Pedro Mattey / AFP) 'It wasn't clean': Mother mourns son killed in US Maduro assault 
Aerial view of the charred remains of destroyed homes after a wildfire in Concepcion, Chile, on January 18, 2026. Chilean President Gabriel Boric declared a state of emergency on January 18 for two southern regions where raging wildfires have forced about 20,000 people to evacuate their homes. (Photo by Raul Bravo / AFP) Chile declares emergency as wildfires kill at least 19
A vehicle and a house are engulfed in flames during a wildfire in Concepcion, Chile, on January 18, 2026. Photo by GUILLERMO SALGADO / AFP Chile declares emergency as wildfires kill at least 15
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Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa signs an agreement at the Presidential Palace in Damascus on January 18, 2026. (Photo by Rami al SAYED / AFP) Syrian government, SDF agree to immediate ceasefire
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This aerial photograph shows people along with their belongings walking across a damaged bridge as they flee from a Kurdish-controlled area, in Rasm al-Harmal, east of Aleppo city on January 16, 2026. (Photo by Bakr ALkasem / AFP) Syrian army says entering area east of Aleppo after Kurds agree to withdraw

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