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Senegal's president dissolves parliament to call a snap legislative election 12 Sep 2024 - 11:48 pm
File: Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye delivers a speech during the Global Forum for Vaccine Sovereignty and Innovation at the French Foreign Ministry, the Quai d'Orsay, in Paris, on June 20, 2024. (Photo by Dylan Martinez / POOL / AFP)
Organization of Islamic Cooperation expresses solidarity with flood victims in Nigeria 12 Sep 2024 - 10:48 pm
People help an elderly man wade through flood water in Maiduguri on September 12, 2024.  (Photo by Audu Marte / AFP)
UN warns some 25 million Sudanese risk famine without more donations 12 Sep 2024 - 08:48 pm
Displaced Sudanese who have returned from Ethiopia gather in a camp run by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Sudan's border town of Gallabat in the eastern state of Gadaref on September 11, 2024.  (Photo by Ebrahim Hamid / AFP)
Mpox deaths rise by 107 in a week as Africa CDC calls the toll unacceptable 12 Sep 2024 - 08:24 pm
A patient suffering from mpox sits on a bench at the Kavumu hospital, north of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on August 24, 2024. (Photo by Glody Murhabazi  / AFP )
Nigeria floods kill 30, displace 400,000: rescuers 11 Sep 2024 - 09:07 pm
This aerial view shows houses submerged under water in Maiduguri on September 10, 2024. (Photo by Audu Marte / AFP)
Striking Kenya airport staff to resume work 11 Sep 2024 - 07:57 pm
Empty check-in counters seen inside the departures of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi on September 11, 2024 amid a strike by the Kenyan Aviation Workers Union. Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP
Kenya airport strike disrupts flights 11 Sep 2024 - 10:29 am
Passengers wait at a closed door at the departures of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi on September 11, 2024. (Photo by Simon Maina / AFP)
Dam collapse in Nigeria sweeps deadly reptiles into flooded communities 10 Sep 2024 - 07:19 pm
This aerial view shows houses submerged under water in Maiduguri on September 10, 2024. Photo by Audu MARTE / AFP
First doses of mpox vaccine from the United States arrive in Congo 10 Sep 2024 - 04:34 pm
This handout photograph taken and released by the European Union's Press Service on September 5, 2024, shows a policeman gesturing during the reception of a batch of MPOX vaccines donated by European Union at the tarmac of the Kinshasa International Airport in the Nsele district of Kinshasa. Photo by EUROPEAN UNION / AFP.
Libyan city Derna scarred by disaster tries to rebuild a year after deadly flooding 10 Sep 2024 - 04:06 pm
This overview shows ongoing construction work on a bridge in Libya's eastern coastal city of Derna on September 9, 2024. Photo by Khaled Nasraoui / AFP.
Ugandan athlete Cheptegei's attacker dies in hospital 10 Sep 2024 - 11:18 am
Picture shared by Ugandan Athletics Federation on X
Chad flooding leaves 341 dead, 1.5 million affected: UN 09 Sep 2024 - 08:53 pm
Peninsula
Flooding kills more than a dozen people in Morocco and Algeria 09 Sep 2024 - 04:26 pm
Residents walk on a flooded street in Morocco's Ouarzazate city on September 7, 2024. Photo by Abderahim ELBCIR / AFP
Fuel tanker explosion in Nigeria kills at least 59 09 Sep 2024 - 04:18 pm
This video grab from footage provided by the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) shows flames and smoke billowing from a fuel tanker that exploded after colliding with a truck carrying passengers and cattle on a route in Niger state's Agaie local government district on September 8, 2024. Photo by Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) / AFP
Kenya starts DNA testing for school fire victims 09 Sep 2024 - 02:48 pm
Family members react after visiting the burned dorm room at the Nyeri county's Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri county on September 6, 2024. Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP
'We won't negotiate': Ethiopia PM issues warning over sovereignty 08 Sep 2024 - 11:32 pm
Peninsula
Fuel tanker collision in Nigeria caused explosion; killed at least 48 people 08 Sep 2024 - 10:27 pm
Representational image / File photo of an explosion in Nigeria
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is elected to serve second term in Algeria 08 Sep 2024 - 08:28 pm
A handout picture released by the Algerian Presidency Facebook page, shows Algeria's incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune leaving a polling station after voting in Algiers on September 7, 2024. Photo by ALGERIAN PRESIDENCY FACEBOOK PAGE / AFP.