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A bomb scare shut down Zimbabwe's Victoria Falls Airport on Friday, forcing the country's president to cancel a planned address at a conference on renewable energy, an official said. Zimbabwean President Edson Mnangagwa was due to…

A truck bomb exploded at a checkpoint in the central Somali town of Beledweyne on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and obliterating nearby buildings, a police officer said. It was not immediately clear who was responsible but the…

A senior figure in South Africa's national assembly has condemned the decision by the United States to send cluster bombs to Ukraine. It follows confirmation by the White House that controversial cluster munitions provided by the United…

Militants stormed a regional government office in Somalian capital on Sunday, and five civilians were killed, the government said. The founder of the Aamin ambulance service, Abdulkadir Adan, told Press, that his team collected 16…

Ten people were killed and 39 wounded Sunday in a bomb attack on a church in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo claimed by militants. Congolese military spokesman Antony Mualushayi said the "terrorist act" happened in a Pentecostal…

In Somalia, the death toll from Saturday's twin bomb attack in the capital, Mogadishu, has climbed to at least 100, according to authorities. Two cars packed with explosives were detonated minutes apart near the busy Zobe junction…

On the five-year anniversary of the 14th October bombings in Mogadishu, which killed over 500 people, two survivors speak about that day and life after the attack. On one of the busiest thoroughfares of Mogadishu, time stopped five years…

The death toll from twin attacks in central Somalia has climbed to 48, the leader of Hirshabelle state said, with Al-Shabaab insurgents claiming they were targeting politicians ahead of elections. The first attack in Hirshabelle's…

Somalia's government spokesman Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu was wounded after an alleged suicide bomb attack. In a statement, the prime-minister's office confirmed the attack and added that the spokesman's wounds "were not serious". A…

A bomb blast in the eastern city of Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least six people. Narcisse Muteba, the colonel running the city during the state of emergency in the east of the country, said the bomb had gone off…