Egyptian security officials say three workers contracted to build a security wall in the northern Sinai city of el-Arish have been shot dead by suspected militants.
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Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is struggling to overcome the national economic destruction wreaked on Zimbabwe over two decades under Robert Mugabe, writes The Conversation.
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Five journalists in the DRC have been freed after 12 hours of interrogation by police following the publication of articles on the misappropriation of rations for police cadets, their newspaper said.
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Rights groups are calling on Ethiopia's reformist new leader to stop using repressive tactics once favoured by the previous leadership, in their most outspoken criticism since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in April.
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Two of six critically endangered black rhinos have died of unknown causes five months after being flown from South Africa to Chad in a pioneering project to re-introduce the animals, officials say.
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Gunmen have abducted six children from a school in Bamenda, the capital of the northwestern, English-speaking Northwest region of Cameroon, a teacher says.
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Congolese rebels killed 13 civilians and abducted a dozen children in an attack at the centre of the latest deadly Ebola outbreak, DRC's military says, as the violence threatened to again force the suspension of crucial virus containment efforts.
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He claims to be the best living recording artist with the spirits of Fela Kuti, Bob Marley and Tupac Shakur running through him, but Kuti’s son soon put the record straight.
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Fifty-five people were killed last week in clashes between young Christians and Muslims in northern Nigeria following a dispute in a market, President Muhammadu Buhari says.
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The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation has reportedly said that its head of news and current affairs was rehired by its board and government after he had made a deal to pay back the $1 083 362, 09 he owed to the public broadcaster.
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It is a "dark day" for everyone fighting the deadly Ebola outbreak after rebels shot and killed two medical agents with the Congolese army, DRC's health minister says.
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The Comoros military has regained control of Mutsamudu's old city centre on the island of Anjouan, a minister says, after armed rebels staged an uprising earlier this week.
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