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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi met Tuesday (Oct. 22) his Russian counterpart moments before the official start of the BRICS summit in Kazan, western Russia. As El-Sissi stressed his desire to enhance cooperation; a…

Late Tuesday, the bodies of victims of a fuel truck explosion near Uganda's capital Kampala were retrieved as Investigators collected evidence at the scene in Kigogwa Town. The truck overturned after an accident and later…

The Speaker of Ghana’s parliament has suspended proceedings indefinitely following chaotic scenes in the chamber over a row about which party holds the parliamentary majority. Last week, it was discovered that four MPs had…

Egypt has officially been declared free of malaria by the World Health Organization (WHO), a major success for the country. The WHO called this achievement "truly historic." Malaria has been a problem in Egypt for thousands of years, but…

In Mozambique, police suppressed an opposition protest on Monday morning in central Maputo. The opposition leader and presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane was addressing the press, when police targeted his campaign…

Cameroon’s 91-year-old President Paul Biya has been seen in public for the first time in six weeks amid speculation about his ailing health. His absence from the public eye led to unfounded rumours of his…

Residents of a seven-storey apartment building in the Kenyan capital escaped the worst. Shocking footage showed the apartment block, in Kahawa West, reduced to rubble after it abruptly collapsed . In a statement…

According to UN data, more than half of the population in Sudan, some 25.6 million people, "are in the high levels of acute hunger" or worse. Free kitchens, or Takias, in war-ravaged Sudan, are now facing shortage of funds and…

A British national has told the reporter that he and several Turkish citizens were abducted in the Kenyan capital Nairobi by masked men on Friday, with four of the Turkish citizens still missing. Necdet Seyitoğlu, who lived in…

All student unions in Ivory Coast are being shut down, the government has announced, after the killing of two students which is being blamed on the powerful Student and School Federation (Fesci). Several Fesci members have been…