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Hunger, malnutrition reach record levels in South Sudan: UN official

Friday, June 29, 2018
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Egypt court sentences 27 to life in prison over violence

Friday, June 29, 2018
Nairobi.
Africa

Kenya, U.S investors ink $100m investment deals

Friday, June 29, 2018
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Libya: Army announces taking over entire city of Darna

Friday, June 29, 2018
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Scores feared dead in Nigeria fuel tanker explosion: local media

Friday, June 29, 2018
Fire fighters obscured by smoke as they damp down the charred debris after a fire swept through a marketplace in Nairobi, yesterday. Net photo.
Africa

Fifteen dead in Nairobi market fire, 70 injured

Friday, June 29, 2018
People gather in front of the Moroccan Parliament demanding the release of Nasser Zefzafi and other leaders of the protest movement in Rabat, Morocco, on June 27, 2018. Late on Tuesday, Nasser Zefzafi, figurehead of the protest movement, along with three other leaders, was handed 20 years' imprisonment. (Xinhua/Aissa)
Africa

Imprisonment sentences spark outrage in Morocco

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday commissioned the construction of a 1.5 billion U.S. dollars Chinese-funded Hwange Power Station expansion project, the second major power development project by China in the southern African country in five years. The expansion to be carried out by China's power and engineering construction firm, Sinohydro, will add two generating units each producing 335 megawatts (MW). (Xinhua/Zhang Yuliang)
Africa

Zimbabwe commissions construction of Chinese-funded power plant

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Joel Boutroue. / Internet photo
Africa

UNHCR urges jobs for refugee youths in Uganda to curb violence

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Fabrice Leggeri, executive director of European Border and Coast Guard Agency. / Internet photo
Africa

EU hails Egypt's role in tackling illegal immigration

Thursday, June 28, 2018
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Land prices in Kenya swell as political stability revs up demand

Thursday, June 28, 2018
President Kagame with Serge Kamuhinda, Board Member, Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwanda (left); Thomas Schaefer, the Volkswagen Group South Africa and Sub- Saharan Africa Managing Director (second from right); and Michaella Rugwizangoga, CEO, Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwanda (right). Village Urugwiro.
Africa

Kagame: Africa deserves better than second hand

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Some of the drug addicts at the Mombasa Council Court in 2015. Over 38 drug addicts were arrested in an operation led by Mombasa police boss Kipkemoi Rop. Net.
Africa

Kenya tries to tackle illicit goods to boost manufacturers

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Ugandau2019s President Yoweri Museveni (second left) and his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir (second from right) joined Machar (L) and Kiir (R) ahead of the signing event. Net.
Africa

South Sudan rivals sign deal

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Mnangagwa and Grace Mugabe. Net.
Africa

Mnangagwa blames Grace Mugabe faction for blast

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Congolese family, who migrated from Democratic Republic of Congo by fleeing on a boat across Lake Albert, waits to be registered by United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Ntoroko, Uganda February 17, 2018. Net.
Africa

Uganda’s introduction of diarrhea vaccine to reduce child deaths: UN

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Eritrea's foreign minister (R) is welcomed by Ethiopia's prime minister (L) in Addis Ababa. / Internet photo
Africa

Sudan welcomes rapprochement between Ethiopia, Eritrea

Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Sudan's Vice President Hassabo Mohamed Abdul-Rahman. / Internet photo
Africa

Sudan vows to combat drug use on World Drug Day

Wednesday, June 27, 2018
South Korean construction companies are some of the firms that will return to Libya. / Internet photo
Africa

South Korean embassy, companies to return to Libya in September

Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Eritrea's foreign minister (R) is welcomed by Ethiopia's prime minister (L) in Addis Ababa [Mulugeta Ayene/AP]
Africa

Ethiopia receives first Eritrean delegation to Ethiopia in 20 years

Tuesday, June 26, 2018