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South Africa extends army's Cape Town crime crackdown 16 Sep 2019 - 06:36 pm
Soldiers patrol against gang violence in Manenberg township, Cape Town, South Africa, July 18, 2019. Reuters/Shafiek Tassiem
Niamey residents flee after the worst floods in 50 years 16 Sep 2019 - 05:05 pm
Displaced residents of Niamey collect water at tanks on September 11, 2019 in the makeshift camp of Saguia near the capital after the Niger river floods forced inhabitants out of the area. AFP / Boureima Hama
Widow of late Tunisia leader Essebsi dies as presidential poll opens 15 Sep 2019 - 12:17 pm
(FILES) This file photo taken on July 27, 2019, shows Tunisia's former first lady Chadlia Saïda Farhat, widow of late Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi, during her husband's state funeral at the presidential palace in the capital's eastern suburb of Ca
Tunisia seeks new leader to boost economy, fight terror 15 Sep 2019 - 10:32 am
Salwa Karoui, wife of detained Tunisian media mogul and presidential candidate Nabil Karoui, speaks during an election campaign rally in Tunis, Tunisia, September 13, 2019. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
In fuel-short Mali, farmers find money in saving tree stumps 13 Sep 2019 - 09:52 pm
Seydou Keïta on his farm where he uses the FMNR method to regrow trees that have been partially cut down in Kolokani, Mali. September 13, 2019. Soumaila Diarra/Thomson Reuters Foundation
Mugabe will have private burial at national Heroes' Acre 13 Sep 2019 - 06:42 pm
A casket carrying the remains of former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe is carried to the military chopper after his body lied in state at the Rufaro stadium, in Mbare, Harare, Zimbabwe, September 13, 2019. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko
Exhausted Central Africans leave exile for unknowns at home 12 Sep 2019 - 09:17 pm
Central African refugees coming back after years in Congo-Brazzaville stand at the rear of a truck in Mongoumba, at the Congo-Brazzaville border, about 100 km south of Bangui on September 2, 2019. AFP / Camille Laffont
'They fooled us': Benin bulldozes district, leaving residents homeless 12 Sep 2019 - 09:17 pm
People walk among rubble of demolished houses in Xwlacodji, in the 5th arrondissement of Cotonou on September 3, 2019, after the passage of bulldozers. AFP / Yanick Folly
At least 50 dead in Congo after train derails - minister 12 Sep 2019 - 02:13 pm
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Mugabe's body arrives home to divided Zimbabwe, burial dispute 11 Sep 2019 - 09:18 pm
The official ceremony held upon the arrival of the body of Robert Mugabe at Harare International Airport Zimbabwe on September 11, 2019. (Wilfred Kajese/Anadolu Agency)
Mugabe's body expected in Zimbabwe, burial place still a mystery 11 Sep 2019 - 10:19 am
A hearse carrying the body of the late former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe leaves the funeral parlour for the airport in Singapore September 11, 2019. REUTERS/Feline Lim
Ugandan leader calls for eye-for-an-eye-style sentences after nephew murdered 11 Sep 2019 - 09:07 am
File photo of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni (C) arrives to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) Africa meeting at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, on September 5, 2019, in Cape Town. / AFP / RODGER BOSCH
Mugabe polarises Zimbabwe in death as well as in life 10 Sep 2019 - 07:23 pm
Patriotic Front leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo prior to the opening of the British-convened Rhodesian Constitutional Conference at Lancaster House in London on September 10, 1979. AFP / UPI / Pete Skingley
African refugees held captive in Libya to go to Rwanda in coming weeks: UNHCR 10 Sep 2019 - 06:22 pm
Sudanese refugees are seen at a school in Al Dahra district in Tripoli, Libya April 24, 2019. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny
Six policemen killed in attack in Burkina Faso 10 Sep 2019 - 09:47 am
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Relatives fly to Singapore to bring Mugabe home 09 Sep 2019 - 06:53 pm
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14 dead, 29 missing after bus overturns in Morocco floods 09 Sep 2019 - 05:39 pm
Members of the security forces search for bodies in the wreckage of bus at the banks of the Damchan river near the city of Errachidia, in the El Khank region in southern Morocco following a flood-related accident that left at least six people dead, on Sep
Can DR Congo leaders keep their pledge of free school? 08 Sep 2019 - 08:12 am
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Colombia's President Gustavo Petro delivers a speech during the commemoration of the 134th anniversary of the National Police and the promotion of officers at the General Santander Police Academy in Bogota on November 13, 2025. (Photo by Raul Arboleda/ AFP) Petro makes historic raise to Colombia's 2026 minimum wage
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on March 30, 2025 shows US President Donald Trump at the White House on March 24, 2025, in Washington, DC and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on March 18, 2025. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI and Maxim Shemetov / AFP) Trump has 'positive' call with Putin on Ukraine: White House
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Members of Myanmar Union Election commission (UEC) count ballots after the closing of polls at a polling station in the first phase of Myanmar general election in Yangon on December 28, 2025. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/ AFP) Polls close in first round of Myanmar's election

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This aerial view shows Palestinians burying 54 unidentified bodies in a cemetery in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on October 22, 2025. (Photo by AFP) / AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2025 Gaza death toll rises to more than 71,000: health officials
Displaced Palestinians walk past a large pool of rain water accumulated near tent shelters as the region experiences rain and cold winter conditions, in Gaza City on December 28, 2025. Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP 'Shivering from cold and fear': winter rains batter displaced Gazans
File photo. AFP. Palestinian killed by Israeli fire in northern Gaza

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