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Sat, 16 Apr 2022 10:07:57 +0000
News24.com | Nigeria's women shopkeepers forced to scale back as prices soar
Food, fuel inflation pushes up shopping bills in Nigeria and rising diesel costs have also driven prices even higher.

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 13:49:53 +0000
News24.com | Horror crash kills 35 ahead of Easter gathering in Zimbabwe
At least 35 people died and 71 were injured in Zimbabwe when a bus carrying churchgoers to an Easter gathering veered off the road and landed in a gorge, police said Friday.

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 13:48:45 +0000
News24.com | Fire at substation leaves large parts of Joburg without electricity, water
A fire at a substation has caused widespread power outages and water cuts across Johannesburg.

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 13:27:37 +0000
News24.com | Botswana wants its place among liberation movements in southern Africa
Botswana says it should take its place among liberation movements in southern Africa, despite not getting independence through an armed struggle like many of its neighbours.

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:36:15 +0000
News24.com | Botswana to translocate 500 elephants to Mozambique
Two years after pledging 500 elephants to Mozambique as a gift, Botswana says the animals are set to be translocated soon.

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:23:24 +0000
News24.com | Zimbabwe deports DRC refugees who allegedly looted food at refugee camp
The Zimbabwean government deported about 70 refugees back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in violation of international humanitarian law, the United States Embassy in Harare has said.

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:32:34 +0000
News24.com | South Sudan food insecurity likely to rise, UN agency says
Intensified intercommunal clashes in the Abyei Administrative Area in South Sudan between February and March led to the displacement of up to 100 000 people, the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund has said.

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 13:03:56 +0000
News24.com | WATCH | Britain to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will seek to move on from the uproar caused by his Covid-19 lockdown fine by announcing a plan to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda to be processed.

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 11:10:59 +0000
News24.com | Mali massacre survivors say white mercenaries involved in killings
It was market day in the town of Moura in central Mali when Malian troops backed by white mercenaries descended in helicopters and opened fire on bewildered residents, according to witnesses' accounts.

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 08:29:54 +0000
News24.com | Seven police officers, 4 soldiers die in Niger attacks
Seven Niger police officers and four soldiers were killed on Tuesday in two separate attacks near the country's borders with Burkina Faso and Libya, the government said on Wednesday.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:44:11 +0000
News24.com | Forces are 'disrupting' insurgency in Mozambique - but fight is not over, says SANDF chief
South Africa's military chief said Wednesday that multinational forces had been able to "disrupt" jihadist rebels in northern Mozambique since their deployment there last year.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 16:57:39 +0000
News24.com | Namibia's youngest MP challenges the president to take a salary cut
Inna Koviao Hengari, from the Popular Democratic Movement, said a salary cut for the Namibian president would be an act of good faith.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:38:04 +0000
News24.com | Ivory Coast PM and government resign
Ivory Coast Prime Minister Patrick Achi tabled his resignation and that of his government on Wednesday, President Alassane Ouattara said during a cabinet meeting during which he accepted the resignation without providing further detail.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:31:11 +0000
News24.com | Fight against cholera in Malawi gets timely boost amid outbreak in 2 regions
Malawi received 1.9 million oral cholera vaccine doses for the first round of its vaccination drive after cholera was detected in areas affected by floods in March.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 14:30:38 +0000
News24.com | Observer team heads to Eswatini to check on two opposition MPs arrested nine months ago
The Inter-Parliamentary Union says it will send an observer team to Eswatini to check on the human rights situation of two of the kingdom's legislators who were arrested nine months ago on allegations of terrorism.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 11:54:59 +0000
News24.com | Death toll in Nigeria's Plateau state rises to 154 - community leaders
At least 154 people were killed in Sunday's attack by gunmen on villages in Nigeria's northern Plateau state, more than three times the initial count, two community leaders said.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 11:08:49 +0000
News24.com | US Special Envoy for Horn of Africa to step down soon - sources
US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa David Satterfield will step down from his role before summer, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, after less than six months on the job and at a time of persistent politi

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 10:12:04 +0000
News24.com | Renewed South Sudan clashes force 14 000 to flee
Detoh Rie has spent the last five days hiding in a swamp with his children - one among thousands of South Sudanese forced to flee their homes as renewed violence threatens to return the fragile nation to war.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:55:15 +0000
News24.com | Egypt prosecution says no criminal suspicion in economist’s death
Egypt's state-appointed human rights council has urged prosecutors to investigate whether an economic researcher, who authorities say died in a state mental health facility last month, was a victim of forced disappearance.

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:08:44 +0000
News24.com | Dozens dead after gunmen ransack central Nigerian villages
Gunmen have killed over 100 people after ransacking a group of villages in central Nigeria, local sources said, in one of worst attacks this year blamed on heavily armed criminal gangs who terrorise parts of the country.



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