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Al Shabaab militants attack Somali army base, killing several soldiers

Al Shabaab fighters attacked a remote Somali army base northwest of the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing several government soldiers, officials and the militants...

South Sudan crisis: One million child refugees

More than one million children have fled South Sudan because of escalating conflict, the United Nations says. A similar number of children are also displaced...

At least 29 pupils killed in Tanzania bus crash

At least 29 primary schoolchildren, two teachers and a driver died in a bus crash in northern Tanzania on Saturday. The grisly accident occurred at...

U.N. human rights chief wants inquiry into Ethiopia unrest

The United Nations human rights chief said on Thursday he would push Ethiopia to allow his agency to investigate rights abuses during months of...

Somalia’s youngest minister shot dead in Mogadishu

Somalia’s youngest minister has been shot dead in an incident close to the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu. The 31-year-old Abbas Abdullahi Sheik Siraji...

UK troops in South Sudan on a support mission

Several dozen British troops on Tuesday arrived in Juba, capital of South Sudan, to provide engineering and medical support to the United Nations Mission...

Somali militants kill two men accused of rape

Somali Islamist militants said they publicly stoned one man to death and shot dead another on Monday after both were accused of raping a...

Two al-Shabaab fighters jailed by Ethiopia over terror plot

An Ethiopian court has sentenced two people for planning a terror attack on the country in 2014. The two are said to have links...

Tanzania’s Magufuli sacks 10,000 civil servants over fake certificates

Almost 10,000 civil servants in Tanzania have been sacked over fake education certificates. Tanzania's President John Magufuli has said that civil servants whose names were on...

Odinga to contest Kenyatta in Kenya election

Veteran politician Raila Odinga will represent Kenya's opposition alliance in the presidential election in August, his fourth time as a presidential candidate. His nomination was...

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