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32 members of the Al-Shabab terrorist group were killed in the country’s military operation. The Somali National Army with the support of the Galmudug State forces and the local forces killed 32 Al-Shabaab militants and injured others after conducting a planned operation against terrorists’ hideout at the Qaycad area in …

Nine deaths and 16 suspected cases have been reported so far in a new Marburg virus outbreak in Africa The World Health Organization (WHO) has convened to discuss a new outbreak of a highly infectious virus in Central Africa. The body is looking at several vaccine candidates that could potentially …

Pope Francis landed in Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday for a visit that will highlight the human cost of decades of conflict in the vast central African country, which is rich in minerals but where millions are displaced and live in poverty. Francis is the first pope to visit …

The Burkina Faso government clarified on Monday that it has asked ex-colonial ruler France to pull its troops out of the insurgency-hit country within a month. France deploys about 400 special forces soldiers in junta-ruled Burkina, but relations have deteriorated, and tensions have soared in recent months. “We are terminating …

One person was killed and at least six others injured in a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint manned by Somali government troops in the central region of Hiran on Saturday, witnesses said, part of a twin suicide car attack. The two blasts went off almost simultaneously, the witnesses said. …

Morocco wrote World Cup history on Saturday night as the first African and Arab country to reach the tournament’s semifinals, continuing their surprise run in Qatar with a shock 1-0 victory over the highly fancied Portugal. Youssef En-Nesyri leaped high in the air to head home the game’s only goal …

An Algerian court Thursday sentenced 49 people to death over the lynching of a man falsely accused of starting deadly forest fires during an extended heatwave last year, state media reported. The North African country has, however, maintained a moratorium on carrying out death sentences since the last executions in …

President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia of feeding anti-French propaganda in Africa to serve “predatory” ambitions in troubled African nations, where France has suffered military setbacks and a wider loss of influence over recent years. Speaking on the sidelines of a summit of French-speaking nations in Tunisia, Macron was asked to …

African Union-mediated talks have started in South Africa between delegations from the Ethiopian government and Tigray rebel forces in an attempt to establish peace after two years of war in that country. Thousands have died with millions displaced during the conflict – as the Ethiopia’s worst drought in 40 years …

At least 150 people, including women and children, were killed Wednesday and Thursday in fresh tribal clashes in the Blue Nile, southern Sudan, which has already been plagued by clashes over land in recent months. The UN mission in Sudan said it was “gravely concerned about the escalation of deadly …

Widespread flooding has killed more than 500 people in Nigeria, left around 90,000 homes underwater, and blocked food and fuel supplies, two government ministries said on Friday. The floods have hit 27 of Nigeria’s 36 states and impacted around 1.4 million people, the ministries for humanitarian affairs and for disaster …

The Tunisian coastguard has recovered 11 bodies thought to be of irregular migrants lost at sea while attempting to reach Europe, a spokesman said Friday. The partly decomposed bodies were found on Thursday and Friday in Mediterranean waters off the central province of Mahdia, National Guard spokesman Houcem Eddine Jebabli …

President Paul-Henri Damiba led a coup earlier this year against a civilian government that lost support over rising violence by Islamist extremists. He has now been ousted by the same armed forces that helped him gain power. Burkina Faso’s self-declared military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore has accepted a conditional resignation …

Nine people, including senior regional officials, have been killed in two bomb attacks in Beledweyne in central Somalia, police officials said. “The initial information we have received confirms the death of nine people,” including state ministers and commissioners, Mohamed Moalim Ali, a local police commander, said on Monday. He added …

Gunfire was heard in Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday a day after President Paul-Henri Damiba was declared ousted in the second coup the West African country has seen this year. Amid reports of rifts within the army, there was no update from self-declared leader Captain Ibrahim Traore, who was installed …

The death toll from a migrant shipwreck off Tunisia last week has risen to 12, Tunisia’s ministry of interior said on Monday. A total of 37 migrants, all of the Tunisian nationality, were involved in this attempt to illegally reach the Italian coast from the region of Sfax (central-east), according …

At least 38% of the grain exported from Ukraine under the UN-brokered deal is shipped to the EU instead of the developing countries in Africa for which it was intended, Spain’s El Pais newspaper reported on Thursday, citing UN data and ship tracking figures. According to the report, more than …

The German military resumed its reconnaissance mission in Mali on Tuesday after a suspension of more than three weeks following a spat with Mali’s government regarding overflight clearances. Berlin has deployed some 1,000 troops to Mali, most of them near the northern town of Gao where their main task is …

African leaders called on Monday for their counterparts from richer, polluting nations to increase funding for projects to help them adapt to climate change. Countries on the continent are seeking to raise $25 billion in investments in the next three years for adaptation projects, including improving agricultural resilience and updating …