Police fired tear gas and arrested activists as protesters rallied in cities across the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday against President Felix Tshisekedi's plan to change the constitution.
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A large-scale attack on a central army base in Mali last week killed at least 50 soldiers and five Russian paramilitaries from Africa Corps, security and local sources told AFP Monday.
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More than 7,000 Ebola cases have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo's worst outbreak of the deadly disease ever, according to figures released Saturday by Congolese authorities.
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Two Nigerian nationals have been killed in South Africa, Nigeria's Foreign Ministry said, as tensions run high between the two countries over anti-immigrant protests.
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The funeral was underway Saturday in western Uganda for a traditional monarch who ascended the throne of the Tooro Kingdom as an infant in 1995 and died last month at 34, triggering a succession dispute that has rocked the royal family and gripped the entire nation.
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Doctors in Kenya on Tuesday threatened to join a walkout by nurses that is now in its sixth week, citing an increased workload in hospitals as they cope with the impact of the strike.
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Rebel Tigrayan authorities accused Ethiopia of another drone strike in the country's northern region on Tuesday, with a conflict monitor telling AFP that civilians and combatants were killed in the attack.
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Yuma Adolphe and his team are responsible for the safe and dignified burial of some of the people who die from Ebola in Congo's Ituri province, the epicenter of history's deadliest Ebola outbreak. Nearly every day, they dig the graves, prepare the bodies and handle the coffins.
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An armed gang killed 10 people and kidnapped at least 40 others from a village in northwest Nigeria, according to a security report seen by AFP on Monday and a local resident.
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The United States will start phasing out its financial support for Namibia's HIV response programs, the latest among southern African countries to feel the effects of the withdrawal of foreign aid by the US administration.
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An attempt to steal oil from a loading vessel in Nigeria’s oil-producing Rivers state left at least 37 people dead, most of them from inhaling toxic fumes, an advocacy group said Friday.
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Renewed fighting erupted early Thursday between government forces and militias on the outskirts of Somalia’s southwestern city of Baidoa, with reports of heavy gunfire and civilians fleeing their homes.
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Trials for three potential vaccines against the Ebola strain that has killed thousands in the DR Congo should begin by October or November, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
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Congo’s authorities said Monday that the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has topped 6,000 cases with 2,911 deaths.
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A weeks-long political dialogue in Ethiopia has backed constitutional changes to create a new presidential system that could extend Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's control over the country.
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Niger's military regime and its Russian paramilitary partners put down a mutiny by soldiers after a long and confusing day of fighting around the capital Niamey.
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Voters in military-run Guinea-Bissau cast their ballots on Sunday in a referendum that could give the president more powers ahead of a general election meant to restore civilian rule later this year.
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Niger's ruling junta said it was back in control after mutinous soldiers set off armed clashes in Niger's capital Saturday, moving on the presidential palace and disrupting the state broadcaster.
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A major concentration of military vehicles and logistical equipment has appeared at an Ethiopian army base near the Sudanese border, increasing the risk of a large-scale Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attack on Ed Damazin, the capital of Sudan’s Blue Nile State, according to a new satellite assessment by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab.
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A group of soldiers in Niger rebelled against officers at a key military base and fired at sensitive locations in the capital, Niamey, in an apparent mutiny marked by gunfire and explosions, authorities said Saturday, in what was seen as a major threat to the country's struggling junta.
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