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South  Sudan journalists detained over viral Kiir video 07 Jan 2023 - 04:26 pm
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir attends a meeting on the cutting of the number of states from 32 to 10, at the State House in Juba, South Sudan February 15, 2020. File Photo / Reuters
South Africa has its first case of most transmissible Covid variant 07 Jan 2023 - 01:02 pm
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Nigeria to bar cash withdrawals from government accounts 06 Jan 2023 - 09:26 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)
Ivorian troops on trial in Mali as deadline looms in row 05 Jan 2023 - 10:01 pm
Colonel Assimi Goita, leader of Malian military junta. File Photo / Reuters
Worst cholera outbreak in decades in Malawi kills 643 people 05 Jan 2023 - 07:37 pm
Pilirani Wanja, a clinician at Ndirande Health Centre, demonstrates to clients how to take the cholera vaccine in response to the latest cholera outbreak in Blantyre, Malawi, November 16, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
Mauritania bars accused ex-president from leaving country 05 Jan 2023 - 04:57 pm
Mauritania's former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz / Reuters file photo  
Tunisia lawyers protest tax hike on legal services 05 Jan 2023 - 04:29 pm
Tunisian lawyers wear a red armband during a lawyers sit in protest against the new finance law, in front of the Tunis court, on January 5, 2023. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Mali avoids sanctions over detention of Ivorian soldiers 04 Jan 2023 - 11:31 pm
Mali's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Abdoulaye Diop attends a news in Moscow, Russia, on May 20, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
Togo president visits Mali amid Ivorian soldier row 04 Jan 2023 - 10:17 pm
Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe is mediating a diplomatic row over the detention of 46 Ivorian soldiers in Mali. By Ludovic MARIN (AFP)
Car bombs kill 35, burn houses in central Somalia 04 Jan 2023 - 07:02 pm
A view shows smoke rising following a car bomb explosion at Somalia's education ministry in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 29, 2022 in this picture obtained from social media. File Photo / Reuters
Nigeria to spend $7.5bn on petrol subsidy to mid-2023 04 Jan 2023 - 04:33 pm
Nigeria's Minister of Finance Zainab Ahmed speaks during a panel discussion at the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund during the Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington on October 13, 2022.  File Photo / Reuters
Tanzanian president lifts ban on opposition political rallies 03 Jan 2023 - 09:10 pm
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan. (AFP File photo)
Spain court opens probe into alleged E.Guinea torture 03 Jan 2023 - 08:20 pm
Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo attends a plenary session of the Paris Peace Forum, France November 12, 2019. File Photo / Reuters
Spain busts criminals smuggling e-waste to Africa 03 Jan 2023 - 06:05 pm
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Tunisia opposition says hit by politically motivated probes 03 Jan 2023 - 05:03 pm
Demonstrators hold loaves of bread as they protest in opposition to a referendum on a new constitution called by President Kais Saied, in Tunis, Tunisia June 18, 2022. File Photo / Reuters
DR Congo rebels have not retreated from key town, say locals 02 Jan 2023 - 11:23 pm
Congolese M23 rebels are seen as they withdraw from the 3 antennes location in Kibumba, near Goma, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, December 23, 2022. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi
Tunisia transport workers strike amid economic woes 02 Jan 2023 - 10:41 pm
Tunisians are pictured next to a tram station in the capital Tunis' Ariana district, on January 2, 2023, after a strike by the public transport employees was announced the night before. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
Egypt recovers 2,700-year-old sarcophagus lid from US 02 Jan 2023 - 08:16 pm
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (center right) and the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri (center left) are surrounded by journalists as they inspect an ancient Egyptian wooden sarcophagus being handed over and which was formerly displayed at Houston Museum of Natural Sciences after having been looted and smuggled years prior, at the foreign ministry headquarters in the capital Cairo on January 2, 2023. (Photo by AFP)