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At least 13 civilians were killed in a camp for displaced people on Wednesday night in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in a region where sporadic clashes between armed groups and the M23 rebellion persist, sources said. There have…

Legendary Congolese guitarist Denis Lokassa Kasiya, with stage name Lokassa ya Mbongo, died Tuesday night in the US after a long illness. Lokassa as the band leader of the popular Soukous Stars band turned 80 recently. He is formerly…

A new report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says that the government has failed to address the problem of drug trafficking in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The report is based on the findings of a…

Gambian Vice-President Badara Alieu Joof died of illness in India, says President Adama Barrow on Tuesday. Joof, 65, was appointed vice president of the West African country in 2022. He had previously served as education minister. Barrow…

Founding member of Pointer Sisters pop group Anita Pointer died on Saturday at the age of 74 following a battle with cancer, her publicist said. One of the founding members of R&B group The Pointer Sisters, she delighted fans…

Seven hundred and thirty (730) children have died in nutrition centres across Somalia since January, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning the true figure could be much higher, with the country nearing famine. Millions of people are…

United Arab Emirates President, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a pro-Western moderniser who had aligned the Gulf Arab state closer to the United States and its allies, died on Friday. The Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced…

The president of the Ivorian National Assembly Amadou Soumahoro died on Saturday at the age of 68. The announcement was made by the Ivorian President, Alassane Ouattara. Amadou Soumahoro was a figure in Ivorian politics and a loyal…

A senior naval commander from Russia's Black Sea Fleet had been killed in Ukraine, the governor of Sevastopol said on Sunday. Post-Captain Andrei Paliy, the fleet's deputy commander, died during fighting in the eastern Ukrainian port…

A boy trapped for three days down a well in a remote Afghan village has died, according to several officials. The child called Haidar, slipped to the bottom of a well being dug in Shokak on Tuesday, a drought-ravaged village in Zabul…