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Gunmen who opened fire at a taxi stand in a small coastal South African town killed four people who were sitting in a minibus and wounded another four, police said. The motive for the attack was unknown, police said, but the killings mean …

An Islamist suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Somali army camp in Mogadishu and killed at least 20 soldiers, officials said. The attack, which occurred at the Jaalle Siyad Military Academy, was claimed by the Al -Qaeda…

At least 77 people were injured, five of them critically, after two buses collided at the entrance to a South African university, police and transport authorities said. One of the buses was a university vehicle ferrying students between…

The Gambian government has permanently revoked the importation licence of Atlantic Pharmaceutical Company Limited. This decision comes after a task force reported the death of over 70 children from kidney failure caused by tainted cough…

The health authorities in Burkina Faso have given the go-ahead for a new malaria vaccine to be used on young children offering hope that millions of lives can be saved. The R21 vaccine has already been approved in Ghana and Nigeria.…

Two people have been rescued alive but 17 others were found dead after the boat they were all travelling in capsized off Senegal's capital city. Report says divers and firefighters are still searching in Dakar, a day after the vessel was…

Egyptian-German doctor Mohamed Helmy, who sheltered and supported a Jewish family during World War Two, has been honoured with a Google Doodle. Google commissioned the work by Berlin-based artist Noa Snir on what would have been Dr.…

Algeria has summoned senior Danish and Swedish diplomats to condemn the continued attacks on copies of the Quran in the two countries. Report says the biggest market in Qatar has removed any products which come from Sweden. Meanwhile,…

At least nine people were killed and nearly three dozen injured in a building collapse, Cameroonian authorities said. Report says a four-story building collapsed onto a smaller one early in Douala, the country’s economic center and…

Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi has proposed high-level talks between China, Japan, and South Korea in a meeting with the Japanese foreign minister in Indonesia this month. Report says the proposal is seen as signaling a willingness to resume…