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Death toll climbs as torrential rains contine to batter Kenya

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Weeks of heavy rain and floods that have killed nearly 200 people continue to ravage parts of Kenya causing landslides ...

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As night falls, a handful of South African soldiers slouch under a tent near a crocodile-infested pond off the largely d ...

11 hours ago | Africa Stories

Mauritania's Islamist opposition party on Thursday said its leader would be standing in the presidential election schedu ...

11 hours ago | Africa Stories

Liberia's President Joseph Boakai on Thursday signed an executive order marking a major step towards the creation of a l ...

11 hours ago | Africa Stories

Police in London made 45 arrests on Thursday as protesters tried to stop the removal of migrants from their temporary ac ...

15 hours ago | Africa Stories

Kenya and Tanzania were bracing Thursday for a cyclone on the heels of torrential rains that have devastated East Africa ...

18 hours ago | Africa Stories

The number of people who have lost their lives in devastating floods in Kenya since March has risen to 188, with dozens ...

18 hours ago | Africa Stories

The Zimbabwe workers join the rest of the world in commemorating the International Proletariat Day. As we commemorate an ...

18 hours ago | Africa Stories

Peacekeeping amidst daily exchanges of fire ndash; sometimes receiving direct hits ndash; can be a formidable unde ...

23 hours ago | Africa Stories

Denis Sassou Nguesso's 40-year rule of Congo-Brazzaville has sparked debate over the appropriate age for a president, wi ...

23 hours ago | Africa Stories

Denis Sassou Nguesso's 40-year rule of Congo-Brazzaville has sparked debate over the appropriate age for a president, wi ...

May 2, 2024 | Africa Stories

Chad's junta leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno is hoping to sweep May 6 elections and extend the more than three-decade ru ...

May 2, 2024 | Africa Stories

His father ruled Chad for three decades with an iron first and Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno looks poised to consolidate the ...

May 2, 2024 | Africa Stories

General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, proclaimed head of state by Chad's army three years ago, is the favourite to win Monda ...

May 1, 2024 | Africa Stories

Ghanaâ s Asante King on Wednesday displayed for the first time dozens of royal artefacts looted during colonial rule, a ...