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South Africa has put together a special team of police detectives to investigate the killing of some 11 people in Cape Town’s Philippi.

The German government on Saturday marked 60 years of its relations with the West African nation Ghana as both countries aspire to improve the already existing strong ties between them.

At least eight people are reported to have been shot and killed by security forces in Cameroon on Sunday during anti-government protests.

The Tunisian navy rescued 98 Tunisians fleeing to Europe when their boat started to sink off Kerkenah on the southeast coast late on Saturday, the national guard said.

The former American football star and actor OJ Simpson has been released on parole after nine years in a Nevada jail.

There has been heavy deployment of security forces across major cities in the English-speaking areas of Cameroon on Sunday in an attempt to block planned anti-government protests.

A military cargo plane crashed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa on Saturday, killing the crew, the director of the city’s main airport said.

A rebel spokesman in eastern Congo said on Friday that his movement intended to march across the country to the capital Kinshasa to depose President Joseph Kabila, who refused to quit power at the end of his mandate last year.

Two weeks of clashes between rival armed groups in the city of Sabratha sparked by a lethal shooting at a checkpoint have left 26 dead and 170 wounded, the health ministry said Friday.

Tear gas was fired at anti-government protesters in Zimbabwe as people agitate over worsening economic conditions in the Southern African country.