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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)
Somali leader urges people to flush out Al-Shabaab 'bedbugs' 12 Jan 2023 - 09:52 pm
Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (centre) gestures as he attends a rally against the Al-Shabaab jihadist group in Mogadishu on January 12, 2023. (Photo by Hassan Ali Elmi / AFP)
Nine killed in mosque attack in Burkina Faso 12 Jan 2023 - 06:47 pm
A displaced boy, who fled with others from his village in northern Burkina Faso following attacks by assailants, poses at a school on the outskirts of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on June 15, 2019.  File Photo / Reuters
Egypt relied on competitive Russian wheat as imports dipped in 2022 12 Jan 2023 - 05:16 pm
A worker collects wheat at the Benha grain silos in Al Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt, on May 19, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
DR Congo says Rwanda using refugees for 'political purposes' 12 Jan 2023 - 12:15 am
Rwandan President Paul Kagame says his country cannot carry the
Uganda declares end to Ebola outbreak after new cases abate 11 Jan 2023 - 06:35 pm
In this file photo taken on December 09, 2022, a general view of the newly installed makeshift Ebola Treatment Unit with 32 beds, also to be used as a research centre for Ebola strains and vaccine trial. (Photo by BADRU KATUMBA / AFP)
Gambia honours pro-democracy activist killed in custody 10 Jan 2023 - 11:07 pm
Pallbearers carry the coffin of Solo Sandeng during his funeral in Banjul on January 10, 2023. (Photo by Muhamadou BITTAYE / AFP)