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The makeshift dam burst in the Rift Valley sent torrents of water and mud gushing down a hill.  By LUIS TATO AFP

Floods strand dozens of tourists in Kenya's Maasai Mara

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Nearly 100 tourists are among people marooned after a river overflowed in Kenya's famed Maasai Mara wildlife reserve fol ...

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After four years without a May Day parade because of Covid-19 among other strategic reasons, Senegal has organised a ral ...

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Jazz icon Herbie Hancock performed this week in Tangiers at the end of a four-day jazz festival he launched more than a ...

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Rwanda's historic opposition leader, Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, has filed a case before the East African Court of Justic ...

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After cutting away the loose woollen threads from his loom, 28-year-old Senegalese weaver Seydina Oumar Cisse turns the ...

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The Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) expresses serious concerns regarding the suspension and salary cut against jou ...

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Togo's legislative election was free, fair and transparent, regional electoral observers said on Tuesday, a day after ...

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Rwanda must end support for M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and withdraw troops from its neighb ...

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A UN-backed court on Tuesday announced it had issued an arrest warrant for the Central African Republic's former preside ...

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South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma is running a visible and noisy campaign for May's elections against his former pa ...

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South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma is running a visible and noisy campaign for May's elections against his former pa ...

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Rwanda must end support for M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and withdraw troops from its neighb ...

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Kenyan President William Ruto on Tuesday deployed the military to evacuate everyone living in flood-prone areas after 17 ...

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Togo's legislative election should be considered free, fair and transparent, a regional electoral observation mission ...

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Doors and locks smashed, power equipment stolen, no fuel, no food, water or electricity ... welcome to what's left of a ...