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Niger cholera outbreak claims 67 lives 27 Sep 2018 - 04:55 pm
The UN recently said that more than 500 people have died opf cholera in the Lake Chad region (AFP Photo/NATASHA BURLEY)
Efficient cookstoves take up a new task in Kenya: heating 26 Sep 2018 - 07:47 pm
Philip Njau makes energy saving cookers at his workshop in Kangemi, a village in central Kenya, July 2, 2017. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Kagondu Njagi
At least 15 Tuaregs killed in tribal attack on Mali village 26 Sep 2018 - 02:56 pm
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At least 12 dead in Mali attack: sources 26 Sep 2018 - 11:43 am
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South Sudan surgeon wins UN prize for treating war-hit refugees 25 Sep 2018 - 08:08 pm
South Sudanese surgeon, Evan Atar Adaha, 52, and winner of the Nansen Refugee Award, in an operating theatre at the Maban Hospital in the town of Bunj, Maban County, South Sudan on May 7, 2018. Courtesy: UNHCR / Will Swanson
No respite for relatives of Ethiopia's disappeared 25 Sep 2018 - 08:42 am
A picture taken on September 4, 2018, shows Ethiopian Edao Dawano who has been searching his father, an official of OLF (Oromo Liberation Front) who was arrested by the government in 1992, looks at this father's image on his mobile phone during an AFP int
Hunger strike in Togo over opposition arrests 24 Sep 2018 - 07:50 pm
File photo: (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
Kenya's military says it's killed 10 extremists in attack 24 Sep 2018 - 05:53 pm
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Tanzania buries ferry disaster dead as toll hits 224 23 Sep 2018 - 03:42 pm
Rescuers push a boat to the water on Lake Victoria on September 22, 2018, during searches for victims a day after the ferry MV Nyerere capsized.   AFP / Casmir ODUOR
Tanzania ferry disaster toll passes 200 22 Sep 2018 - 06:01 pm
An aerial image shows the capsized ferry MV Nyerere which killed 131 people in Lake Victoria, Tanzania, on September 21, 2018.  AFP / Stringer
Congo reports Ebola death close to busy Ugandan border 22 Sep 2018 - 03:22 pm
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Survivor found as death toll 167 in Tanzania ferry disaster 22 Sep 2018 - 02:52 pm
Investigators on boat work on the capsized ferry MV Nyerere which killed 131 people in Lake Victoria, Tanzania, on September 21, 2018.  AFP
Over 130 dead after Tanzania ferry capsizes on Lake Victoria 21 Sep 2018 - 08:53 pm
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Death toll reaches 100 in Tanzania ferry disaster, hundreds feared missing 21 Sep 2018 - 01:05 pm
Rescue workers are seen at the scene where a ferry overturned in Lake Victoria, Tanzania September 21, 2018, in this still image taken from video. Reuters TV/via REUTERS
Kenya's president signs finance bill with contested new taxes into law 21 Sep 2018 - 10:44 am
File photo of incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta speaks after he was announced winner of the repeat presidential election at the IEBC National Tallying centre at the Bomas of Kenya, in Nairobi, Kenya October 30, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo
At least 79 dead in Lake Victoria ferry disaster: Tanzania state media 21 Sep 2018 - 10:36 am
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Liberia passes landmark law to secure ancestral land rights 20 Sep 2018 - 08:41 pm
Displaced people return to their village in the western Tai area near the border with Liberia, June 17, 2012. Reuters/Luc Gnago
Ghana's market women score win against forced eviction 20 Sep 2018 - 08:41 pm
Akua Agyeawa poses for a portrait in front of her clothing stand in Madina, Ghana, July 3, 2018. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Nellie Peyton