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Clashes between rival armed groups in Bria, a strategic town in eastern Central African Republic, have left dozens dead, a senior official says.

The bus driver sensed straight away that he and his six passengers were in trouble when the gunmen, dressed in Nigerian army uniforms, stopped their vehicle at a checkpoint.

Angola's state-owned oil giant Sonangol has become a majority shareholder in mobile phone operator Unitel, a move that could threaten Isabel dos Santos' position as head of the telecoms firm.

Mali began recruiting some 15,000 teachers on Monday, the government said, in order to break a nationwide strike which began last week over demands for higher pay.

Nearly 200 civilians were killed in violence last month in two volatile provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo's lawless east, the highest toll since June 2017, a monitor said Monday.

Unknown gunmen have killed at least 13 people in an attack in central Nigeria, police say, in an area known for ethnic clashes.

A top Egyptian court has ruled in favour of banning female academic staff at Cairo University from wearing the Muslim face veil, known as the niqab, lawyer Ahmed Mahran said Monday.

Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba has attacked mob justice after a second person was lynched by a crowd in the capital Libreville after rumours spread of child kidnappings.

Acclaimed Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni, who chronicled the popular uprising that toppled longtime president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, has died aged 36 after a long illness, her family says.

Despite food crisis, Zimbabwe fields lie fallow as farmers grapple with drought, hyperinflation and onerous taxes.

[Radio Dabanga] Omdurman -The Sudan Ministry of Health has confirmed that a container of illegally dumped hazardous radioactive medical waste has been found near to a residential area west of Omdurman, Sudan's second city, north-west of Khartoum on the western bank of the Nile.

[Nation] Hundreds of learners from five public schools in Ndhiwa Sub-County of Homa Bay County did not report to their learning institutions on Tuesday after floods swept away a bridge connecting various villages in Kabuoch.

[Monitor] Two people have been confirmed dead after a jet ranger belonging to the Uganda People's Defence Air Force crashed in Gomba.

[Shabelle] US military has bombed an al-Shabaab controlled town in southern Somalia amid the Somali government intensified operations against the group.

[Shabelle] An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Allison Holland, met with the Somali authorities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 6th-16th January 2020, to discuss recent economic developments, review progress on reforms under the fourth Staff-Monitored Program (SMP-IV), and to undertake discussions on a new three-year macroeconomic reform program that could be supported by […]

[Shabelle] African leaders have called on governments to increase budgetary allocations and increase resources to the education sector.

[Dalsan Radio] King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed 2,000 food baskets, weighing 210 tons, to flood-affected people in Balad District, Somalia.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -Kenya's foreign exchange market has remained stable, supported by the narrowing of the current account deficit and balanced flows.

[Nairobi News] Despite all the efforts put to clampdown on fraudsters stealing from members of the public with a promise that they will help them join the military, more than 100 youth were still fell into the trap during the last recruitment exercise in 2019.

[Nation] A 55-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for murdering his neighbour over miraa.