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Wed, 03 Mar 2021 09:00:23 +0000
News24.com | 'This crime is to exterminate us': Tigrayans recount massacre by Eritrean troops
Local church officials say 164 civilians have been killed in Dengolat, with most of the deaths occurring on 30 November.

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 17:40:22 +0000
News24.com | Army, private firm, fighters accused of Mozambique war crimes
Hundreds of civilians in Cabo Delgado killed by rebels, gov’t forces and private militia, Amnesty says.

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:32:36 +0000
News24.com | Nigeria receives nearly four million free Covax vaccines
Nearly four million coronavirus jabs have arrived in Nigeria, making Africa's most populous nation the latest country to receive vaccines from Covax.

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 14:35:07 +0000
News24.com | Egypt executes 11 convicted of murder
Egyptian authorities have executed 11 people convicted of murder, a security source has said, in what rights campaigners have labelled "a horrifying execution spree".

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 12:41:10 +0000
News24.com | Jihadists attack UN base in Nigeria, trapping 25 aid workers
Jihadists linked to the Islamic State have attacked a UN base and overrun a humanitarian hub in Nigeria, trapping 25 aid workers, security and humanitarian sources have said.

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 10:50:58 +0000
News24.com | Four media workers arrested in Ethiopia's Tigray
Four media workers in Ethiopia's conflict-wracked Tigray region, including a translator working for Agence France-Presse, have been arrested and detained.

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 08:00:20 +0000
News24.com | Kidnappers release schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria's Zamfara state - Zamfara governor
Gunmen have released girls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, the governor has announced.

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 22:32:43 +0000
News24.com | Burkina Faso gold mine collapse kills at least 11
At least 11 people have been killed and three injured when a gold mine collapsed in northern Burkina Faso.

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:11:55 +0000
News24.com | Zamfara state govt in talks with kidnappers of 317 Nigerian schoolgirls - officials
Officials in Nigeria's Zamfara state are in touch with the gunmen who abducted 317 schoolgirls last week and are negotiating their release, two state officials told Reuters.

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:50:44 +0000
News24.com | Zimbabwe vice president Kembo Mohadi resigns - statement
Zimbabwe's Vice President Kembo Mohadi has resigned, saying this was meant to save the image of the government following local media reports of improper conduct.

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:31:44 +0000
Businessinsider.co.za | MTN has one more month to register more than half its SIM cards in Nigeria
MTN has updated the registrations of 48.7% of its Nigerian subscribers since December. It has until April 6 to update many millions more.

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 14:00:10 +0000
News24.com | Ivory Coast to launch first vaccination drive with Covax shots
People have queued early as the Ivory Coast prepared to become the first country to launch a Covid-19 inoculation drive.

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:34:48 +0000
News24.com | Algeria riots after activist jailed
Unrest broke out in an Algerian town after a blogger and activist was handed a seven-year jail sentence for condoning acts of terrorism, a news website has reported.

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 09:00:18 +0000
News24.com | Taking Covid-19 vaccine will not alter your DNA, Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo says
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged citizens of the West African state to ignore conspiracy theories surrounding coronavirus vaccines.

Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:44:09 +0000
News24.com | Still no word from SA government on controversial Ugandan elections
South Africa is not in a position to pronounce on whether the Ugandan elections was free and fair.

Sun, 28 Feb 2021 12:26:42 +0000
News24.com | US calls on African Union to exert pressure over worsening crisis in Ethiopia's Tigray
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday called on the African Union and other international partners to help address a deepening crisis in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region as he condemned alleged atrocities in fighting there.

Sun, 28 Feb 2021 10:19:01 +0000
News24.com | Nigerian schoolboys freed as forces search for 300 abducted girls
Gunmen in Nigeria on Saturday released 27 teenage boys who were kidnapped from their school last week in the north-central state of Niger, while security forces continued to search for more than 300 schoolgirls abducted in a nearby state.

Sun, 28 Feb 2021 10:05:41 +0000
News24.com | Zimbabwean business leaders sound an unfamiliar note: optimism
Business executives are sounding decidedly upbeat in Zimbabwe, a sea change from the pessimism they’ve expressed through two decades of economic mismanagement and institutional decay.

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 14:07:23 +0000
News24.com | Assailants free 42 people kidnapped from Nigeria school
Kidnappers have freed 42 people, including 27 children, snatched from a school in central Nigeria 10 days ago, officials said on Saturday, a day after more than 300 schoolgirls were abducted by gunmen in the northwest.

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 13:38:42 +0000
News24.com | Gunmen kidnap more than 300 schoolgirls in increasingly lawless northwest Nigeria
Unidentified gunmen seized more than 300 girls in a nighttime raid on a school in northwest Nigeria on Friday and are believed to be holding some of them in a forest, police said.



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