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The Gambia: coping with dictatorship’s legacy

After 22 years of dictatorship, The Gambia is steeling itself to face up to its troubled, unpleasant past of arbitrary arrests, torture and lives spent in exile. The new government is urging Gambians to be patient.

South Sudan gunmen kill 28 in Ethiopia

South Sudanese gunmen killed 28 people and kidnapped 43 children in Ethiopia's Gambella province, an Ethiopian official says.

Tanzania broadcaster suspends staff over fake Trump news

Tanzanian public broadcaster TBC has suspended nine staff after it aired a "fake" story saying that US President Donald Trump had praised President John Magufuli's performance.

Four suicide bombers kill two in northeast Nigeria’s Maiduguri

Four female teenage suicide bombers killed two people and injured 16 others in a residential area in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a...

Pirates demand ransom for tanker seized off Somalia

Armed pirates off the coast of Somalia who hijacked an oil tanker with eight Sri Lankan crew on board are demanding a ransom for...

Government offices in DRC vandalized

Offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) of the Democratic Republic of Congo and several administrative offices in the Kasai-Central’s Kazumba district have...

Kidnapped aid workers in South Sudan released

Eight local staff with a U.S. aid group in South Sudan were released safely on Tuesday after being detained by armed men, the agency said, calming fears that such workers could become a new target in the famine-hit nation's civil war.

South Sudan, African Union accused of stalling on human rights court

The African Union and South Sudan are failing in their joint responsibility to set up a court to prosecute atrocities in the country and...

Kenya doctors end three-month strike after deal with government

Kenyan doctors ended a three-month strike in public hospitals on Tuesday after reaching agreement on pay and working conditions, ending a standoff that threatened to embarrass the government before August's elections.

Three days of mourning declared in Ethiopia over landslide deaths

Ethiopia's parliament has declared three days of national mourning for the victims of the rubbish dump collapse in the capital, Addis Ababa, as recovery...

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