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Kenya to reintroduce some tax proposals that sparked deadly protests 19 Aug 2024 - 07:49 pm
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Education Above All Foundation condemns recent shelling of school in Sudan’s El Obeid district 19 Aug 2024 - 03:47 pm
Children play outside of a classroom at the a school in Birao on August 12, 2024. Photo by Amaury Falt-Brown / AFP.
Kenya govt plans to reinstate some taxes to raise $1.2 bn 19 Aug 2024 - 01:50 pm
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Sudan government agrees to send delegation to Cairo 18 Aug 2024 - 06:42 pm
Members of Sudan's armed forces take part in a military parade held on the occasion of Army Day in Port Sudan on August 14, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Libya central bank 'suspends all operations' after official abducted 18 Aug 2024 - 04:31 pm
People cross a street at Martyrs Square in Tripoli, Libya, July 5, 2021. REUTERS/Hazem Ahmed/File Photo
Twenty medical students kidnapped in Nigeria 17 Aug 2024 - 08:18 pm
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Fear grips east DR Congo as displaced await mpox vaccine 17 Aug 2024 - 08:09 pm
Health workers walk between wards at the Mpox treatment centre at Nyiragongo General Referral Hospital, north of Goma on August 17, 2024. (Photo by GUERCHOM NDEBO / AFP)
Senegal's first satellite successfully launched 17 Aug 2024 - 07:44 pm
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Sudan's RSF kill 85 people in an attack on Sennar village: residents 17 Aug 2024 - 07:29 pm
Sudanese fleeing the southeastern town of Sennar after an attack by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on nearby Jebel Moyain, arrive on June 28, 2024. Photo by AFP.
Sudan health minister declares cholera epidemic 17 Aug 2024 - 07:15 pm
Sudanese already displaced by conflict, walk near tents at a makeshift campsite they were evacuated to following deadly floods in the eastern city of Kassala on August 12, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Kenya airport workers' union delays strike by two weeks 17 Aug 2024 - 05:27 pm
Aircrafts belonging to Kenya Airways are statione at the departure terminal during a strike by the airline workers at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi on March 6, 2019. AFP / Yasuyoshi CHIBA
Algerian city welcomes home gold-winner Khelif 17 Aug 2024 - 04:52 pm
Algerian gold medallist Imane Khelif greets crowds during a bus tour in her hometown city of Tiaret on August 16, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Equatorial Guinea's president names new PM 17 Aug 2024 - 01:07 pm
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More than 18,700 mpox cases detected in Africa since January: health agency 17 Aug 2024 - 11:07 am
Health workers monitor Mpox patients at the Mpox treatment centre of the Nyiragongo general reference hospital, north of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 16, 2024. Photo by GUERCHOM NDEBO / AFP.
GCC welcomes decision of Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council to open 'Adri' border crossing 17 Aug 2024 - 12:03 am
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Gunmen abduct at least 20 students in Nigeria 16 Aug 2024 - 10:01 pm
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UN says food trucks ready to roll from Chad into Sudan 16 Aug 2024 - 07:00 pm
People already displaced by conflict, rest by tents at a makeshift campsite they were evacuated to following deadly floods in the eastern city of Kassala on August 11, 2024. Every year in Sudan, sasonal peak flow on the Nile is accompanied by torrential rains, destroying homes, wrecking infrastructure and claiming lives. But the impact is expected to be worse this year after nearly 16 months of fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that has pushed millions of displaced people into flood zones. (Photo by AFP)
Nigeria records 39 mpox cases this year 16 Aug 2024 - 03:49 pm
(FILES) This undated file image obtained from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, Maryland, shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (green) found within an infected cell (pink and purple), cultured in the laboratory. (Photo by Handout / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / AFP)