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Boat mishap off Mauritanian coast kills 58, over 80 survivors rescued

Scores of migrants who swam through rough Atlantic Ocean waters to safety from a capsized boat while 58 others drowned…

December 5, 2019

Sen. Orji Kalu, ex-Nigerian governor, jailed 12 years over $20.9m fraud

A former governor of Nigeria’s southeastern Abia State has been jailed 12-years for fraud by a court sitting in the…

December 5, 2019

Up to 57 dead after migrant boat sinks off Mauritanian coast: UN migration agency

Up to 57 people have died after a ship from Gambia carrying around 150 migrants sank off the coast of…

December 5, 2019

Tunisia arrests 11 after clashes in birthplace of Arab Spring

Eleven Tunisians were arrested during a night of clashes between protesters and police in the central region of Sidi Bouzid,…

December 4, 2019

Uganda president joins anti-corruption walk, Twitter users react

Ugandan president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni joined a broad-range of citizens for an anti-corruption walk on Wednesday. Thousands of people from…

December 4, 2019

Even animals stay off same-sex relations, we won’t budge: Zambia President

Zambia’s President has stood by his nation’s strict anti-homosexuality laws. In an interview with Britain’s Sky News on Monday Edgar…

December 4, 2019

Gas explosion at Sudan factory claims 23 lives

At least 23 people have died in a huge explosion that tore through a tile factory in Sudan’s capital of…

December 3, 2019

Akufo-Addo wades into Nigerian traders-GUTA war

Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo is billed to intervene in the dispute between Nigerian traders and the Ghana Union of Traders Association…

December 3, 2019

Four soldiers ‘killed by Boko Haram’ at Lake Chad base

Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed four Chadian troops early on Monday in a newly established military outpost on Lake Chad,…

December 3, 2019

Top rebel leader says more time needed for Sudan peace deal

A senior Sudanese rebel leader Monday called for a three-month extension to finalise a peace deal with the Khartoum government,…

December 2, 2019

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