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Four individuals lost their lives and three others sustained injuries from lightning strikes in the town of Mogincual, Nampula province in Mozambique. The nation braces for Storm Filipo, with the southern and central provinces on alert for…

Zimbabwean powerful vice president said the government will block a university scholarship for young LGBTQ+ people, a move that human rights groups described as a perpetuation of the African country's homophobic practices. The state…

At least 19 people were killed when rebels attacked a town in Congo’s North Kivu province, the army said. The rebels shelled the town of Mweso, where they “indiscriminately dropped mortar bombs,” which also injured 27 other civilians,…

Around 40 soldiers and 100 civilians have been killed in a "war" in northern Togo, President Faure Gnassingbe has said, in a ground-breaking interview. West African nation, along with neighbouring Benin, Ghana and Ivory Coast, is…

The provisional toll of the Marburg virus disease epidemic that has been raging for more than two months in Equatorial Guinea stands at nine confirmed deaths, the Ministry of Health said. On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO)…

The United Nations will need to mobilise a record $2.25 billion this year to address the mass displacement of people in east Democratic Republic of Congo following a major offensive by M23 rebels last year, the U.N. coordinator for the…

A landslide in Cameroon's capital Yaounde killed at least 14 people attending a funeral. The victims had gathered at the top of a hill for a memorial service for five people when the ground collapsed under part of the audience. The…

621 people, including 83 minors, have been arrested in Chad since the violently repressed opposition protests that left some 50 people dead on 20th October, the public prosecutor in N'Djamena announced Friday. "Out of the 628 people…

A resurgence of cholera has killed 154 people since October 2021 in Cameroon, where more than 8,200 cases of the disease have been reported, UN said. Up to the end of May, "the Ministry of Health has recorded 8,241 cases and 154 deaths…

Tribal clashes between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region killed 168 people, a local aid group said, one of the deadliest bouts of violence in the country in recent years. The fighting in West Darfur province comes…