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Pope arrives in DR Congo on 'beautiful trip' to Africa 31 Jan 2023 - 05:31 pm
Pope Francis arrives at the N'djili International Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo , on January 31, 2023. (Photo by Alexis Huguet / AFP)
Nigerian senator in UK court accused of organ harvesting 31 Jan 2023 - 05:20 pm
Beatrice Ekweremadu, wife of Nigeria's former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, leaves the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court, in London on January 31, 2023. (Photo by Adrian Dennis / AFP)
Regional armies pound militant bases in Lake Chad basin 30 Jan 2023 - 10:18 pm
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Tunisia reports low turnout in second vote for defanged parliament 30 Jan 2023 - 09:55 pm
Members of the election committee empty a ballot box to count votes at a polling station during the second round of the parliamentary election in Tunis, Tunisia on January 29, 2023. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
Mali investigators see breakthrough in murder mystery 30 Jan 2023 - 05:36 pm
Mali's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Abdoulaye Diop attends a news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (not pictured), in Moscow, Russia on May 20, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
New tiger goes on the loose in Johannesburg 30 Jan 2023 - 04:43 pm
A tiger was spotted in Edenvale, Johannesburg on 30 January 2023. PHOTO: Supplied/Screenshot
Horn of Africa drought drives 22 million to hunger 30 Jan 2023 - 12:54 pm
Children walk at a school in the camp for internally displaced people of Farburo in the village of Adlale, near the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on January 11, 2023. - The last five rainy seasons since the end of 2020 have failed, triggering the worst drought in four decades in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. And the next rainy season, from March to May, is also expected to be below average. According to the UN, drought has plunged 12 million people into
Gunmen kill 8 at birthday party in S.Africa: police 30 Jan 2023 - 08:20 am
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Islamist rebels kill at least 15 in eastern DR Congo 29 Jan 2023 - 10:55 pm
A soldier of the FARDC (Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) takes cover during exchanges of fire with members of the ADF (Allied Democratic Forces) in Opira, North Kivu, on January 25, 2018. File Photo / AFP
Tunisia election turnout was 11.3%, electoral commission says 29 Jan 2023 - 10:33 pm
Farouk Bouasker, President of the Independent High Authority for Elections, speaks during the announcement of the provisional turnout for the second round of the parliamentary election in Tunis,Tunisia, January 29, 2023. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
Rwanda troops clash with DRC police: Congolese sources 29 Jan 2023 - 07:09 pm
Congolese policemen guard the border crossing point with Rwanda after a Congolese soldier was killed in a clash near an area where the Congolese army is fighting M23 rebels, following renewed tensions around Goma in the North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo on June 17, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
Few voting in Tunisian election amid rise in president's powers 29 Jan 2023 - 06:32 pm
A Tunisian voter casts her ballot in the second round of parliamentary elections on January 29, 2023, in Ettadhamen, a working-class suburb west of the capital Tunis. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Kenya wildlife officials defend lion vasectomy 29 Jan 2023 - 05:20 pm
A lioness walks along a road as visitors sit in their vehicles at Nairobi's National Park in Kenya's capital Nairobi, on July 12, 2014. File Photo / Reuters
Nigeria extends deadline to swap old currency notes by 10 days 29 Jan 2023 - 04:57 pm
A person holds a new 1000 Naira note as the Central Bank of Nigeria releases the notes to the public through the banks in Abuja, Nigeria, December 15, 2022. (REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde)
Catholics from eastern Congo make cross-country journey to meet pope 29 Jan 2023 - 04:35 pm
A faithful of the parish of St Charles prays as she attends the morning mass officiated by Abbey Victor Ntambwe, during which he sensitizes people to participate in the electoral process, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on January 22, 2023. File Photo / Reuters
Eritrea troops still on Ethiopian soil - US 28 Jan 2023 - 07:06 pm
A building is seen through a bullet hole in a window of the Africa Hotel in the town of Shire, Tigray region, Ethiopia, on March 16, 2021. File Photo / Reuters
Rwanda arrests six for insulting trailblazing female football ref 28 Jan 2023 - 05:00 pm
Mukansanga was the first woman from Rwanda to referee at the FIFA Women’s World Cup and the AFCON [Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters]
Italy's Meloni in Libya to conclude $8bn gas deal 28 Jan 2023 - 05:00 pm
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the head of Libya's Government of National Unity, Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah attend a joint news conference in Tripoli, Libya on January 28, 2023. REUTERS/Hazem Ahmed

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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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Middle East

A Palestinian woman arrives with a child at the Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic, in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on new year's Eve, December 31, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP) UN Rights Chief condemns Israeli move to suspend humanitarian groups in Gaza
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