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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…

Kenya’s Deputy President, Rigathi Gachagua, was unable to attend his impeachment hearing on Thursday because he is seriously ill and in the hospital, according to his lawyer. Gachagua was set to appear before the Senate to…

The head of the military junta that seized power in Mali in 2020 promoted himself Wednesday to the rank of army general with special title: Colonel Assimi Goita of the land army, the highest military distinction held only by two former…

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi discussed rising tensions in the region with Egyptian officials Thursday in Cairo during the first such visit by a top Iranian official to the North African nation in around a decade. …