Extreme temperatures keep rising as El Nino sweeps across the continent with no rain in sight, particularly in Southern Africa. Now five elephants have been reported dead as a result of dehydration in Zimbabwe.
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The US this week introduced visa restrictions for people in Sudan, Zimbabwe and Uganda for their links to enabling conflict, human rights abuses and election rigging.
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A Nigerian army drone strike accidently killed at least 85 civilians on Sunday in a village in northwest Kaduna State, officials said, in one of the country's deadliest military bombing mishaps.
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President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone says his government is treating last week's coup attempt purely as a matter of law and order, as he attempts to rally his nation in defence of democracy.
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For nearly three decades, the chaotic, overcrowded Owino secondhand market in Uganda's capital has been the cornerstone of Hadija Nakimuli's life, helping the widowed shopkeeper build a house and raise 12 children.
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Somalia's president welcomed Friday's decision by the UN Security Council to fully lift an arms embargo on the Somalian government, while maintaining a ban on sales to the country's Islamists militants.
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Angola is not keen to reduce its oil production in line with a proposed quota by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, because the country needs to grow its economy.
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Experts have challenged African leaders to direct a sizable chunk of what they will get from wealthy nations at COP28 towards the adaptation of sustainable livestock systems.
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The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo says it is unfortunate and regrettable that the European Union hs withdrawn its election observer mission to the 20 December general elections.
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