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Africa Now 27, Zahia Dehar hit the headlines 10 years ago as the under-age escort who was allegedly paid for sex by top French footballers. By CHRISTOPHE SIMON (AFP)
Football scandal girl film wins a top Cannes award 2 HOURS AGO AFRICA

Africa

Algeria General Ahmed Gaid Salah, Algeria's army chief, has thrown his support behind presidential polls on July 4. By RYAD KRAMDI (AFP/File)
Algeria army chief says he has 'no political ambition' MAY 22, 2019 ALGERIA

Algeria

Angola Angola's President Joao Lourenco (pictured April 2019) cancelled a real estate deal, stating in a decree that the contract had been cancelled
Angola cancels mega real estate deal awarded to Isabel dos Santos MAY 21, 2019 ANGOLA

Angola

Benin Entries Open For The Cotonou International Women's Film Festival
Entries Open For The Cotonou International Women's Film Festival MAY 22, 2019 BENIN

Benin

Botswana Botswana said it was overturning a 2014 ban introduced to reverse a decline in the elephant population with ruling party lawmakers claiming wild animal numbers have become unmanageable. By MONIRUL BHUIYAN (AFP/File)
Fierce divide as Botswana lifts hunting ban 21 HOURS AGO BOTSWANA

Botswana

Burkina Faso Mauritanian soldiers at a G5 Sahel task force command post in the southeast of Mauritania near the border with Mali. By THOMAS SAMSON (AFP/File)
Burkina Faso At UN Begging For World Powers To Defeat Terrorists Group... MAY 16, 2019 BURKINA FASO

Burkina Faso

Burundi The commissioner in charge of electoral operations told an audience of journalists and civil society groups in Bujurumba that official steps should be taken to
Burundi Commissioner Want Free Press Barred From Covering 2020 Poll MAY 9, 2019 BURUNDI

Burundi

Cameroon Separatists have launched an armed campaign in Cameroon's two anglophone regions -- the government has responded with a crackdown. By MARCO LONGARI (AFP/File)
Cameroon Crisis May Get Out Of Control—UN Aid Chief MAY 14, 2019 CAMEROON

Cameroon

Central African Republic Violence in Central African Republic has claimed thousands of lives and forced more than a million people from their homes. By FLORENT VERGNES (AFP)
Armed group kills more than 30 in Central African Republic: UN MAY 22, 2019 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

Central African Republic

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Chadian solutions viable for local problems in the restive north - ana... 21 HOURS AGO CHAD

Chad

Congo Many of the victims were found in mass graves. By ALEXIS HUGUET (AFP)
DRCongo detains 25 over Yumbi massacre: minister 18 HOURS AGO CONGO

Congo

Egypt The daughter and son (pictured April 2019) of Zaki Mubarak, whose body was transferred to Cairo after Ankara said he had committed suicide in prison, hold his picture during an interview in their family home. By MAHMUD HAMS (AFP/File)
Egypt approves autopsy for 'tortured' Palestinian detainee MAY 21, 2019 EGYPT

Egypt

Ethiopia Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and UN Special Envoy on El Niño and Climate
President Mary Robinson Talks ‘Climate Justice’ At Addis Ababa MAY 22, 2019 ETHIOPIA

Ethiopia

Gabon Gabon is heavily forested and the timber industry is hugely important for the economy. By Amaury HAUCHARD (AFP/File)
Ali Bongo Fires Vice President, Forestry Minister Over Timber Smugglin... MAY 22, 2019 GABON

Gabon

Gambia Gambia: Key Human Rights Concerns Highlighted In A Meting With President Barrow
Gambia: Key Human Rights Concerns Highlighted In A Meting With Preside... MAY 3, 2019 GAMBIA

Gambia

Ivory Coast As well as the killings, houses, cars and other property were burned during the violence. By Sia KAMBOU (AFP)
Anger still high among the ashes after I.Coast ethnic clashes MAY 20, 2019 IVORY COAST

Ivory Coast

Kenya Traditional Samburu tribeswomen gather their goats to sell at Merille livestock market, some 411km north of Nairobi in Kenya's Marsabit county. By TONY KARUMBA (AFP)
Tradition meets tech as Kenya's herders adapt to climate change 2 HOURS AGO KENYA

Kenya

Liberia Gender Ministry Celebrate Fistula Elimination Day
Gender Ministry Celebrate Fistula Elimination Day 16 HOURS AGO LIBERIA

Liberia

Libya UN envoy Ghassan Salame has bitterly denounced the conflict in Libya, warning the country is committing suicide and squandering its oil wealth. By Mahmud TURKIA (AFP/File)
Libya committing suicide, squandering oil riches: UN envoy 21 HOURS AGO LIBYA

Libya

Madagascar Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina has pledged to fight corruption in the Indian Ocean island nation. By RIJASOLO (AFP)
More than half of Madagascar MPs suspected of corruption: enquiry MAY 18, 2019 MADAGASCAR

Madagascar

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