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Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

Photos: Burning man is blown out of plane at 14,000ft after explosion rips open the fuselage

A passenger was sucked out of a plane at 14,000 feet after a suspected bomb blasted a hole through the side of the fuselage just five minute...

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South African police, students clash outside Zuma’s office

South African police on Friday fired stun grenades at students, who lit fires outside President Jacob Zuma’s offices, following a week of pr...

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Coup: VP Osinbajo to represent Nigeria in Burkina Faso for Truce

As a follow-up to Tuesday’s extra-ordinary session of Economic Community of West African States’ leaders in Abuja, regarding the situation i...

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Burundi army chief escapes assassination attempt

The head of Burundi’s armed forces has survived an assassination attempt in the capital Bujumbura, police said, adding that at least seven o...

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Nigeria were superior to Tanzania, says coach Kaijage

Tanzania women national team coach Rogasian Kaijage felt that losing to Nigeria was not a big deal because of their rating in African footba...

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Boat with 40 African migrants arrives Spanish island

A boat conveying about 40 African migrants including a toddler girl landed on a beach on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, sea rescue serv...

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Dozens dead, unaccounted for in al Shabaab attack in Somalia

At least 45 African Union and Somali national army forces died in an al Shabaab raid on their base in southern Somalia on Tuesday, western s...

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Egypt announces elections for October, November

Egypt has announced that parliamentary elections will take place in two stages in October and November. Ayman Abbas, head of Egypt’s Supreme...

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116 Somali refugees voluntarily return from Kenya

The office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, on Thursday described the arrival of 116 Somali refugees from Kenya, as a new chapter i...

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Two dead, 21 Rescued in Lake Victoria Boat Tragedy

At least two people have been confirmed dead and over 21 rescued while many went missing after a ferry carrying 200 collided with a fishing ...

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Seven killed in Guinea Bissau building collapse

Seven people lost their lives on Tuesday after a three-storey building collapsed in Canchungo town, 74 km north of Guinea Bissau capital, Bi...

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Zimbabwe judge postpones Cecil the lion trial

The trial of professional Zimbabwean hunter Theo Bronkhorst, who led the expedition that killed Cecil the lion, was postponed on Wednesday u...

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20 killed in two suicide bomb blasts in Cameroon

An estimated 20 people were killed and more than 30 others injured as two suicide blasts on Wednesday hit Cameroon’s northern city of Maroua...

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Pastor fails to rise up after instructing members to bury him alive

Na wa oh! Tragedy struck in a Zimbabwean village after a pastor, Shamiso Kanyama, died after he was allegedly buried alive on his instructio...

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Nigerians applaud AU over single currency, passport proposal

Some Abuja residents on Monday said plans by the African Union to introduce a single currency and passport was a step in the right direction...

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Simone Gbagbo jailed, the Ivory Coast's former first lady

Simone Gbagbo Former first lady, of Ivory Coast's Simone Gbagbo, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for her role in the violence tha...

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