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#MeToo Nigeria style: women opt for martial arts over marches 05 Feb 2020 - 09:16 pm
Adeola Olamide, a 35-year-old mother of three, joins her first self defense class, after being the victim of several assaults in Lagos, Nigeria January 25, 2020. Reuters/Seun Sanni
Cheap as bread, girls sell sex to survive crisis in Africa 05 Feb 2020 - 09:16 pm
A pedestrian walks by the community centre at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in the South African landmark township of Soweto on April 24, 2014. AFP / Mujahid Safodien
Poland sets date for pivotal election as row with EU deepens 05 Feb 2020 - 09:16 pm
Horse carriages stand near the Cloth Hall building in the old city center in Krakow on Febuary 5, 2020. AFP / Ludovic Marin
Daniel arap Moi, Kenya's iron-fisted second president 04 Feb 2020 - 06:37 pm
Newspapers with the headline on the death of former Kenya's president Daniel Arap Moi, are displayed, in Nairobi, on February 4, 2020. AFP / Simon Maina
Kenya's former President Daniel Arap Moi dies 04 Feb 2020 - 09:39 am
In this file photo taken on December 28, 1992 Kenya's President Daniel Arap Moi, who is also the leader of the ruling Kenyan African National Union (KANU) party shown brandishing a stick as he addresses members of his party/ AFP / ALEXANDER JOE
Twenty killed in Tanzanian church stampede: official 02 Feb 2020 - 10:23 am
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East African airlines suspend China flights due to coronavirus 31 Jan 2020 - 11:19 am
Kenya Airways planes are seen parked at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport near Nairobi, Kenya November 6, 2019. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo
Attack kills 15 in eastern DR Congo 29 Jan 2020 - 04:49 pm
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Elderly black women in S. Africa win property rights in landmark ruling 29 Jan 2020 - 03:01 pm
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Nigeria’s biggest city to ban motorbike taxis in boost to Uber 29 Jan 2020 - 11:37 am
Motorcycle taxi drivers sit on their bikes, popularly called
UN: Clashes in Sudan’s West Darfur force 11,000 into Chad 28 Jan 2020 - 07:04 pm
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20 Mali soldiers killed at army camp attacked by gunmen 26 Jan 2020 - 09:34 pm
A Coalition of the People of Azawad (CPA) fighter raises his gun in the air while patrolling the area near the Mali-Mauritania border to protect local populations from insecurity related to unrest caused by bandits , in Soumpi on January 22, 2020. AFP / S
Burundi ruling party picks Ndayishimiye to contest presidential vote 26 Jan 2020 - 06:10 pm
In this file photo taken on May 22, 2018 The secretary general of the Burundi's ruling party CNDD-FDD Evariste Ndayishimiye speaks to media in Bujumbra. AFP
Angola may ask Portugal to seize dos Santos' assets, says prosecutor 24 Jan 2020 - 08:43 pm
People enter the EuroBic bank headquarters in Lisbon on January 23, 2020. AFP / Patricia De Melo Moreira
Heavy rain kills dozens in Madagascar 24 Jan 2020 - 07:14 pm
Representative image (AFP / Noel Celis)
Out of court: Ugandans turn to 'barefoot lawyers' to settle land disputes 23 Jan 2020 - 09:36 pm
Pyerina Adong Otto (left) and family at her home in Awach, Uganda, December 5, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Liam Taylor
Angola's ex first daughter Isabel dos Santos charged with fraud 23 Jan 2020 - 10:45 am
FILE PHOTO: Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angola’s former president, sits for a portrait during a Reuters interview in London, Britain, January 9, 2020. Picture taken on January 9. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
Whatever the weather: Southern Africa tries new hunger fixes 22 Jan 2020 - 06:43 pm
An extension worker provides information to Zambian farmers. (UNCG Zambia Handout / Moses Zangar, Jr. & Georgina Smith)

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Firefighters work to extinguish a fire after an explosion in an industrial area of Ezeiza, Buenos Aires province, Argentina on November 15, 2025. Powerful explosions rocked an industrial area and ignited a fire south of Buenos Aires on the night of November 14, 2025, officials said, with at least 22 people sent to the hospital. (Photo by Luis Robayo / AFP Huge fire sparked by explosions near Argentine capital 'contained'
Former first lady Michelle Obama addresses the crowd at the When We All Vote Rally outside Atlanta, a campaign appearance stumping for Vice President Kamala Harris last year. Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post Michelle Obama says America is ‘not ready’ for a female president
Visitors walk through the recently re-opened National Museum of American History on November 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Heather Diehl/Getty Images/AFP 'So happy': Tourists flock to Washington museums after US shutdown
The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off at Launch Complex 36 in its second launch attempt at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on November 13, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images/AFP Blue Origin launches NASA Mars mission and nails booster landing

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Displaced Palestinian walk past a vehicle carrying others west of Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip, on November 15, 2025 as a low-pressure system impacts the area. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP) Over 900 Gaza patients die due to medical evacuation delay, WHO warns
Iranians perform a prayer for rainfall at the Saleh Shrine in Tehran on November 14, 2025, as the country suffers from severe water shortages. Stringer / AFP Iran begins cloud seeding operations as severe drought bites
Paniz Faryoussefi, the first woman to conduct the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, leads the ensemble at the Vahdat Hall in Tehran on November 13, 2025. (Photo by AFP) Iran's first woman orchestra conductor inspires
Iranians perform a prayer for rainfall at the Saleh Shrine in Tehran on November 14, 2025, as the country suffers from severe water shortages. Authorities in Tehran warned last week of possible rolling cuts to water supplies in the capital amid what officials call the worst drought in decades. (Photo by AFP) Hundreds in Tehran pray for rain as Iran battles drought

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