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Malawi vice president killed in plane crash along with 9 other passengers

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams assist the war wounded from West Darfur, Sudan, in Adre hospital, Chad June 16, 2023 in this handout image. Courtesy of Mohammad Ghannam/MSF/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.
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Medics flee as rebels attack and shut down North Darfur’s only hospital

Girls rescued by Nigerian soldiers from Islamist militants Boko Haram at Sambisa Forest line up to collect donated clothes at the Malkohi refugee camp in Yola on May 5, 2015.

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Girls freed from Boko Haram in Nigeria can face further detention and abuse by military, Amnesty report finds

People from states of Khartoum and al-Jazira, displaced by the ongoing conflict in Sudan between the army and paramilitaries, queue to receive aid from a charity organisation in Gedaref on December 30, 2023.

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Sudan’s government accuses militia of killing scores in massacre

Residents salvage their belongings from destroyed houses in the aftermath of a tornado and extreme weather at an informal settlement in Tongaat, north of Durban on June 04, 2024. Twelve people have died in flooding caused by torrential rain on South Africa's eastern coast, local authorities said on Monday. In Eastern Cape province, "the death toll is currently sitting at seven," a spokesperson from Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, at the heart of the floods, told AFP. More than 2,000 people have been evacuated from Nelson Mandela Bay, notably from makeshift homes in the municipality's slums. (Photo by RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP) (Photo by RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images)

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Deadly tornadoes tear through South Africa, killing 11

FILE - Supporters of Capt. Ibrahim Traore parade wave a Russian flag in the streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Oct. 2, 2022. Just weeks after Burkina Faso's junta ousted hundreds of French troops, there are signs that the West African country could be moving even closer to Russia, including the mercenary outfit, the Wagner Group. (AP Photo/Sophie Garcia, File)

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Russia will increase the number of military instructors in Burkina Faso, foreign minister says

TOPSHOT - Soldiers of the French Army patrols the village Gorom Gorom in Armoured Personnel Carriers during the Barkhane operation in northern Burkina Faso on November 14, 2019. (Photo by MICHELE CATTANI / AFP) (Photo by MICHELE CATTANI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Burkina Faso named most neglected crisis for second year in a row

A worker stands by the gate of the domestic airport, which has been chained to prevent passengers from entering the premises, as Nigeria's main labour unions called for an indefinite strike from Monday after failing to agree to a new minimum wage with the government, in Lagos, Nigeria, on June 3, 2024.

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Nigeria plunged into darkness as union workers shut down national grid in minimum wage protest

Voters queue outside a polling station in Juju Valley, Polokwane, on May 29, 2024, during South Africa's general election.

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First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid

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Former president of the ANC and South Africa Jacob Zuma, waves to supporters after casting his ballot on Wednesday May 29, 2024 during general elections in Nkandla, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa.

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Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?

Nelson Mandela’s party has been dealt a seismic election blow. Where does it leave South Africa?

Nelson Mandela’s party has ruled South Africa for three decades – it now faces a critical moment of truth

South Africa has failed its Black majority. Nelson Mandela’s political heirs may pay the price

Forced to pay bribes at every step. How trans and intersex people say they survive in Kenya

South Africa’s democracy is turning 30 – but a silent crisis threatens its hard-fought gains

A life in fear: The dangers of finding love online as a queer woman in Nigeria

How the Chibok abductions continue to cast a long shadow over girls’ education in Nigeria

Nigeria wants a road to rival the Pacific Coast highway. A prime Lagos beach resort stands in the way

‘Iwájú’: Nigeria-based ‘first-of-its-kind’ animated series premieres on Disney+

Humanitarian relief amid the Sudanese civil war is nearing a ‘breaking point.’ How you can help

A Nigerian woman reviewed some tomato puree online. Now she faces jail

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Ghanaian Afro-dancehall star Stonebwoy records at Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong Studios, inspired to unite the Black diaspora

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Businessman and industrialist Aliko Dangote told CNN despite challenges he had "no choice" but to finish building one of Africa's largest oil refineries in Nigeria.

‘I don’t get scared of anything’: Aliko Dangote’s mission to build Africa’s largest oil refinery

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South Africa has one of the world’s largest manganese reserves. So why does it outsource for processing?

A new city is rising in Egypt. But is it what the country needs?

South African innovator’s medicine-dispensing lockers win prestigious prize

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A lack of equipment and coaching hasn’t stopped software engineer Kathleen Noble from making history with landlocked Uganda

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An early voter checks his ballot papers at the Yeoville Recreation Centre in Johannesburg on May 27, 2024.

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South Africans go to the polls in election seen as biggest test yet to ANC’s 30 years in power

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Nigerian official says gunmen ‘made tea’ as they kidnapped at least 160 in hours-long deadly raid

TOPSHOT - Sudanese security forces patrol in a commercial district in Gedaref city in eastern Sudan on April 3, 2024. Sudan's war has claimed thousands of lives and displaced more than 8.5 million people, according to the UN. (Photo by Ebrahim Hamid / AFP) (Photo by EBRAHIM HAMID/AFP via Getty Images)

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Death toll in Sudan’s El Fasher reaches 134 amid deadly fighting, MSF says

Burkina Faso's junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore (C) seized power in September 2022 after a military coup.

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Burkina Faso extends military rule for five years

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People flee their neighborhoods after after armed gangs terrorized the Delmas 24 and Solino areas on the night of May 1, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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A foreign force was set to arrive in Haiti this week. What happened?

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Kenyan mountaineer dead and Nepali sherpa missing after trying to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen

An Anopheles stephensi mosquito obtains a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters November 23, 2015. A known malarial vector, the species can found from Egypt all the way to China. Scientists have produced a strain of mosquitoes carrying genes that block the transmission of malaria, with the idea that they could breed with other members of their species in the wild and produce offspring that cannot spread the disease. REUTERS/Jim Gathany/CDC/Handout via Reuters THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

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Djibouti fights deadly malaria wave with GMO mosquitoes

The Congolese Republican Guard and police block a road around the scene of an attempted Coup in Gombe, Kinshasa on May 19, 2024.

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Americans involved in foiled deadly coup, DR Congo military says

Aliko Dangote, billionaire and chief executive officer of Dangote Group, at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. The IMF and World Bank's first annual meetings in Africa since 1973 were expected to give a spending boost to Morocco's fourth-largest city and one of its top tourist destinations. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Africa’s richest man says he needs 35 visas to travel in Africa – way more than a European visitor

Former President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Antony Blinken attend an official State Dinner in honour of President Ruto at the White House in Washington, on May 23, 2024.

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Obama makes an appearance at White House’s Kenya state dinner

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This start-up is making artificial hair from bananas

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Kenyan President William Ruto and US President Joe Biden acknowledge the crowd during an official arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 23, 2024.

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Biden looks to counter China’s influence as he rolls out red carpet for Kenya

Plane carrying Malawi vice president reported missing

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