Namibian giraffes sent to Angola
Fourteen giraffes arrived in Angola last week from neighboring Namibia, announced by an organization campaigning to reintroduce the species after decades of depletion due to […]
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A gas leak in a mining shantytown kills 17 people in South Africa
Seventeen people, including three children, died on Wednesday night after a gas leak in a shantytown in a mining town near Johannesburg, according to local […]
Kenyan police kills 20 al-Shebab suspects
Twenty people, suspected of being radical Islamist al-Shebab, were killed after ambushing police in Mandera County in northeastern Kenya, near the border with Somalia, Kenyan […]
South Sudan: President promises first elections next year
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir pledged on Tuesday that elections, previously postponed and now scheduled for next year, would go ahead as planned, and that […]
Sudanese army plane shot down in Khartoum clashes
A fighter jet was shot down on Tuesday in Khartoum, where clashes and artillery fire targeted several districts of the capital of war-torn Sudan, according […]
South African opposition forms coalition to oust ANC
South Africa’s opposition has come together in a coalition to oust the country’s historic ruling party, the ANC, in next year’s general election, the seven-party […]
Chinese navy on “friendly visit” to Nigeria
Three Chinese naval vessels made a five-day stopover in the waters of Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital, on Sunday, in a rare visit to the Gulf […]
Kenya’s President signs into law a much-criticized finance bill
Kenyan President William Ruto has signed into law this 26th of June a finance bill that introduces numerous new taxes, the Presidency announced, despite criticism […]
Nigeria: Crowd lynches a man accused of “blasphemy”
A mob lynched a Muslim man in a northern Nigerian town on Sunday, accusing him of blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad, local police and residents said […]
War gains ground in Sudan, humanitarian aid still blocked
Fighting intensified in Sudan at the week-end, with aid workers calling on the warring parties to allow humanitarian convoys through to help the millions of […]