140 killed in Nigeria fuel tanker explosion
An explosion has killed more than 140 people in northern Nigeria as crowds rushed to collect fuel spilling from a crashed tanker, officials said on Wednesday.
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Nigeria fuel tanker explosion kills almost 100 people: police
A fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria has killed at least 94 people and left 50 injured, police said on Wednesday...
Seven shot dead in a South Africa home
Seven people were gunned down southwest of Johannesburg before the alleged shooter turned the gun on himself, police said Sunday, the latest in a string of mass shootings...
Air strike kills 23 in Khartoum market
A Sudanese network of volunteer rescuers said on Sunday the military carried out an air strike a day earlier on a marketplace in Khartoum, leaving 23 people dead.
Senegal plans breakaway from foreign dependence, debt
Senegal鈥檚 government will on Monday present plans to break away from foreign dependence and debt in favour of local resources and human capital, said...
UK hands Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius
Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but under what president Joe Biden called a 鈥榟istoric agreement鈥� will keep a strategic Indian Ocean military base with...
Around 20 dies as boat sinks on DR Congo lake
Rescuers have recovered some 20 bodies after a boat carrying people and merchandise capsized Thursday on Lake Kivu in eastern DR Congo, security and harbour sources said.
48 dead in Sudan paramilitary attacks on Darfur city
Two days of attacks by Sudanese paramilitaries on the Darfur city of El-Fasher killed 48 people, a medical source told AFP on Friday, after world leaders appealed for an end to the country鈥檚 suffering.
18 killed in Sudan market attack
A paramilitary attack on a market in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher killed 18 people, a medical source told AFP on Friday, after world leaders appealed for an end to the country鈥檚...
30 bodies found in boat adrift off Senegal coast
Senegal鈥檚 navy has recovered at least 30 bodies from a boat discovered adrift around 70 kilometres off the coast of the capital Dakar, the army said on Monday.
Tanzania arrests opposition leaders, blocks protest
Police arrested Tanzania鈥檚 top opposition figures on Monday, their party said, as the authorities moved to block a mass protest in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.
Researchers decode oldest human DNA from S Africa to date
Researchers have reconstructed the oldest human genomes ever found in South Africa from two people who lived around 10,000 years ago, allowing a better understanding of how the...
Chad floods killed 503, 1.7m affected
Severe flooding in Chad since July has claimed 503 lives and affected around 1.7 million since July, the United Nations said Saturday in its latest assessment of the disaster.
150 in Moroccan court over migration incitement
More than 150 people have appeared in a Moroccan court for alleged incitement of illegal migration, a government spokesman said on Thursday, after a failed...
3 Americans, dozens sentenced to death in DR Congo 鈥榗oup鈥� trial
Three Americans were among 37 people sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday over what the army says was a coup attempt.