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An explosion caused by a truck carrying explosives for a mine killed at least 17 people and injured 59 others Thursday and devastated a town in western Ghana, the government said. The explosion occurred around noon Thursday in Apiate,…

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…

The International journalist organization known as the journalist endanger (JED), has alleged 110 journos have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the beginning of this year. In its report entitled "Bad times for the…

Five people were killed when a cargo plane carrying fuel for the UN's World Food Programme crashed near South Sudan's capital Juba, airport officials said. The aircraft a Soviet-era Antonov An-26 transport plane crashed shortly after…

At least three people have died from Ebola in Guinea and five others have tested positive in the first possible resurgence of the disease since the outbreak in 2013. They fell ill with diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding, some of them…

Niger Prime Minister Brigi Rafini visited the two villages that suffered massive casualties when members of suspected militants killed more than 100 people. The attack on the two villages Tchombangou and Zaroumdareye located near the…

At least two Turkish nationals were killed and three others were wounded after a suicide bomber targeted the workers of a Turkish company in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, Turkey's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. "We continue the…