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Nurses working with the World Health Organization (WHO) prepare to administer vaccines at the town all of Mbandaka on May 21, 2018 during the launch of the Ebola vaccination campaign. – The death toll in an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rose to…
A U.S. military airstrike has killed 18 al-Shabab extremists after U.S. and local forces on the ground came under attack in southern Somalia, the U.S. Africa Command said Saturday. No U.S. or Somali forces were killed or injured in the attack, an AFRICOM spokesman, Nate Herring, told The Associated Press. The airstrike was carried out Friday in self-defense after extremists were…
The passenger ferry MV Nyerere capsized on Lake Victoria on Thursday [AP]The captain of an overloaded ferry that capsized on Lake Victoria has been arrested as Tanzania mourns more than 200 people killed in the latest maritime disaster in the East African nation. Although hopes were fading of finding any more survivors by…
Campaigns for Cameroon’s October 7 presidential election have officially begun. Opposition parties have failed to agree on a single candidate to face incumbent President Paul Biya and are suspicious of each other as they maneuver to unseat the man who has ruled Cameroon since for more than three and a half decades. Thousands of people earlier Saturday marched through…
People hold a banner and photos during a demonstration of Gabonese associations in Marseille, southern France on September 24, 2016 to protest against the validation of re-election of Gabon’s president Ali Bongo. PHOTO | ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT | AFP The International Criminal Court will not open a formal investigation into…
