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Two children among eight dead in Uganda rubbish dump collapse 10 Aug 2024 - 04:02 pm
People look on as an excavator helps search for people trapped under debris after a landfill collapsed in Kampala on August 10, 2024. Photo by BADRU KATUMBA / AFP
Flooding restricts aid to areas of Sudan facing famine, UN says 09 Aug 2024 - 04:46 pm
This picture shows the destruction following heavy rains in Abu Hamad, in Sudan's River Nile state, some 400 kilometres (nearly 250 miles) north of Khartoum, on August 7, 2024. Photo by AFP.
Former African football supremo Issa Hayatou dead at 78 09 Aug 2024 - 03:40 pm
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At least four throw hat into ring for top African Union post 07 Aug 2024 - 09:11 pm
File: The African Union logo is seen outside the AU headquarters building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on November 8, 2021.
US announces $424 million in DR Congo aid 07 Aug 2024 - 07:57 pm
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Ethiopians accused of kidnapping countrymen appear in S.Africa court 07 Aug 2024 - 06:54 pm
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UN Security Council convenes to discuss situation in Sudan 07 Aug 2024 - 12:25 am
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Libya, US discuss political process developments 06 Aug 2024 - 11:28 pm
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Egypt’s currency edges higher against the US dollar after price hikes 06 Aug 2024 - 04:59 pm
An employee counts Egyptian pounds at a foreign exchange office in central Cairo, Egypt, March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/
Kenya's Chebet wins Olympic women's 5,000m gold 05 Aug 2024 - 10:58 pm
Kenya's Beatrice Chebet celebrates after winning the women's 5000m final of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 5, 2024. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP)
Nigerian protesters defy president’s request to stop amid the worst cost-of-living crisis in years 05 Aug 2024 - 09:50 pm
A cloud of tear gas fired by Nigerian security forces lingers during the End Bad Governance protest in Abuja on August 2, 2024. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP)
ICC prosecutor eyes arrest warrants over Darfur 05 Aug 2024 - 09:29 pm
File Photo: People walk among scattered objects in the market of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur on April 29, 2023. (AFP)
Kenya's Treetops hotel reopens after Covid shutdown 05 Aug 2024 - 02:23 pm
Wooden debris show remainings of the original location of the former tree house where Britain's Queen Elizabeth II of England stayed the night her father, the King, died and became Queen in 1952 at Treetops Lodge in Aberdare Narional Park in Nyeri, Kenya, on April 10, 2021. Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP
M23 rebels take DR Congo-Uganda border town 04 Aug 2024 - 10:01 pm
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Nigerian president calls for end to protests, 'bloodshed' 04 Aug 2024 - 11:02 am
This aerial view shows protestors runing from clouds of tear gas fired by Nigerian security forces during the End Bad Governance protest in Abuja on August 2, 2024. Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP
Somali police say 32 people died in an attack on a beach hotel 03 Aug 2024 - 05:04 pm
Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack in Mogadishu on August 3, 2024. (Photo by Hassan Ali ELMI / AFP)
Uganda reports first two cases of mpox 03 Aug 2024 - 02:37 pm
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‘We are hungry,’ chant Nigerian protesters as 13 people die 02 Aug 2024 - 08:54 pm
A protestor hold a placard during the End Bad Governance protest in Abuja on August 2, 2024. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP)