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World / Africa

Cleanup at Congo church begins after blast kills 14 16 Jan 2023 - 10:57 pm
File Photo: Demonstrators march during a protest by Congo's Catholic and Protestant churches, against escalating violence in the east of the country, in Kinshasa, DRC. (REUTERS/Justin Makangara/File Photo)
Swiss prosecutors nearing decision on Gambian ex-minister 16 Jan 2023 - 09:21 pm
Ousman Sonko, former interior minister of The Gambia during the reign of Yahya Jammeh, is actually prosecuted in Switzerland on suspicion of
South Africa's Eskom to reduce power cuts but long-term outlook bleak 16 Jan 2023 - 08:48 pm
Locals walk past electricity pylons during frequent power outages from South African utility Eskom, caused by its aging coal-fired plants, in Orlando, Soweto, South Africa, on September 28, 2022.  File Photo / Reuters
Foreign investors pour $925m into Egypt since Wednesday 16 Jan 2023 - 07:16 pm
A man counts Egyptian pounds outside a bank in Cairo, Egypt on October 24, 2016. File Photo / Reuters
Zimbabwe’s gold coins sell above $2,000 each for the first time 16 Jan 2023 - 06:57 pm
The 'Mosi-oa-Tunya' gold coin. (Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images)
Search underway for 50 women abducted in Burkina Faso 16 Jan 2023 - 05:51 pm
Burkina Faso's military leader Ibrahim Traore is escorted by soldiers while he stands in an armoured vehicle in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on October 2, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
Senegal road crash kills 20, wounds 24 16 Jan 2023 - 05:44 pm
A general view of an accident scene near Sakal, northern Senegal, on January 16, 2023 where nineteen people were killed when a bus and a truck collided. (Photo by Ousseynou Diop / AFP)
Somalia says it has seized key port town from al Shabaab 16 Jan 2023 - 05:41 pm
File Photo: Somali military officers march in a parade during celebrations to mark the 62nd anniversary of the Somali National Armed Forces in Mogadishu, Somalia April 12, 2022. (REUTERS/Feisal Omar)
South Africa's president to skip WEF to deal with crippling power cuts at home 15 Jan 2023 - 09:47 pm
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks at the Summit on Economic Empowerment for Persons with Disabilities in Johannesburg, South Africa, on December 8, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
Four Mali police killed in ambush 15 Jan 2023 - 09:38 pm
Colonel Assimi Goita, leader of Malian military junta, attends the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) consultative meeting in Accra, Ghana on September 15, 2020. File Photo / Reuters
Bomb kills 10 at DR Congo church, militants suspected 15 Jan 2023 - 09:21 pm
Congolese military personnel. (Reuters file photo)
Presumed jihadists abduct about 50 women in Burkina Faso: local sources 15 Jan 2023 - 05:08 pm
File photo of a village in northern Burkina Faso. (Michele Cattani/ AFP)
Catholic priest burned to death, another shot in north Nigeria 15 Jan 2023 - 04:49 pm
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari during a European Union - African Union summit, in Brussels, Belgium on February 18, 2022.  File Photo / Reuters
Bomb detonates in church in east DR Congo 15 Jan 2023 - 04:36 pm
A child sings inside the Mulamo Baptist Church in the Kyala neighbourhood of Butembo, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, November 10, 2016.  (Eduardo Soteras, AFP)
Zimbabwe police storm opposition MP's home, arrest 25 14 Jan 2023 - 07:53 pm
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa attends a rally against Western sanctions in Harare, Zimbabwe on October 25, 2019. File Photo / Reuters
Botswana court upholds ex-president Khama's arrest warrant 13 Jan 2023 - 05:02 pm
File Photo: Botswana's President Ian Khama returns to his seat after giving a speech during the Botswana-South Africa Bi-National Commission in Pretoria, South Africa, November 11, 2016. (REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko)
Crisis-hit Ghana increases public servant salaries by 30% 12 Jan 2023 - 11:19 pm
File Photo: People walk on the street around Kwame Nkrumah circle in Accra, Ghana, December 2, 2016. (REUTERS/Luc Gnago)
No reconciliation without justice: French, German FMs tell Ethiopia 12 Jan 2023 - 10:34 pm
Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed receives German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock (left) and French Foreign and European Affairs Minister, Catherine Colonna (third right) and their delegations at the Prime Minister office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on January 12, 2023. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi / AFP)