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Nigeria Military Helicopter Crashes With 32 Onboard
The crash was one of Nigeria’s worst military aviation accidents in years. The country has a history of fatal military aircraft crashes.
Guardian readers fund life-changing surgery for Somali boy injured in US airstrike
After Guardian investigation uncovered drone strike that killed 12 civilians and injured many more, seven-year-old Abdiqadir Salah underwent vital operation in Mogadishu
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Ghana Steps Up Emergency Preparedness With Africa CDC Support
[Africa CDC] Accra, Ghana -- The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is supporting Ghana to strengthen its Public Health Emergency Operations Centres (PHEOCs), which coordinate information, expertise and resources during health emergencies.
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How Congo’s Ebola Epidemic Got So Bad So Quickly
What happened in Mangala, where residents were left with little outside support, helps explain how this outbreak became the worst seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Skull fractures suggest servants of Egypt’s ancient kings were sacrificed
Study of remains taken from royal cemetery at Umm el-Qa’ab appears to confirm early Egyptologist’s theory Court officials and craftspeople serving early Egyptian kings may have been sacrificed when their ruler died, according to research that found fractures in several ancient skulls. The royal cemetery of Umm el-Qa’ab near Abydos features the tombs and enclosures of the First Dynasty rulers of Egypt, and dates as far back as 3,000BC. Continue reading
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Africa CDC Supports DR Congo in Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Ebola Response Funding
[Africa CDC] Kinshasa -- The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) welcomes and supports the position of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, expressed through the Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene and Social Welfare, to strengthen transparency, traceability and accountability in the management of resources mobilised for the Ebola response.
Knox Chitiyo obituary
My friend and former colleague Knox Chitiyo, who has died aged 65 of bowel cancer, was a Zimbabwean academic and later an important voice in Britain on his homeland and its future. He was regularly consulted by diplomats, business people, journalists, academics and activists.
Egyptian journalist faces terrorism charges after entire newsroom detained
Calls for release of six Matsadaash staff after one is charged, while whereabouts of other five remain unknown
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White Zimbabweans return to farming
Their return a generation after Robert Mugabe’s land grabs reflects the country’s potential—and its troubles
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Ghana bans preaching on buses with jail terms for offenders
Ghana is a predominantly Christian country where preaching on public transport is widespread.
Libyan unity talks upended as warlord’s son linked to drone attacks on fuel facilities
Western Libya’s GNU say working with Saddam Haftar ‘impossible’ as US-backed merger plan breaks down Allegations that the son of the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar oversaw a “terror cell” that launched drone attacks on fuel storage facilities and power stations in western Libya have upended plans for the Tripoli-based government of national unity (GNU) to continue cooperating with Haftar on a plan to unify the country.
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Ekurhuleni killings: The South African men trying to end violence against women
The discovery of 12 women's bodies near Johannesburg has again highlighted South Africa's problem with violence against women.
What to Know About Fighting Between Ethiopia and Rebels in Tigray
The conflict is raising fears of a regional war in the Horn of Africa, drawing in foreign powers including Eritrea, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
John Iliffe obituary
Pioneering historian who transformed the study of Africa by seeking out the testimonies of Africans When John Iliffe, who has died aged 87, wrote his book The African Poor: A History (1987), the continent was readily dismissed by many academics as a home of problems and poverty, with no intellectual depth. But Iliffe acknowledged no such limitations, and it came as no surprise that it won the African Studies Association’s best book prize, then known as the Herskovits prize.
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Mass Shootings Surge in South Africa as Illegal Guns Flood Streets
The country was shaken after nearly 30 people were killed in two separate mass shootings. South Africans are demanding greater government intervention.
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Namibia: Petrol Price Goes Up Again in October, Diesel Remains the Same
[Namibian] Petrol prices will go up by N$1.50 per litre on Wednesday, while diesel prices will remain the same for the month of October.
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Zambia: African Bishops Express Concern Over the Arrest of Archbishop Banda
[Agenzia Fides] Lusaka -- "On behalf of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), we wish to express our fraternal solidarity and prayerful closeness to the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB), and in a particular way to His Grace Dr. Alick Banda, Archbishop of Lusaka, at this challenging moment in the life of the Church in Zambia."
Trump is disappearing refugees into the hands of torturers – and rewarding them handsomely | Tutu Alicante and Uzra Zeya
Refugees from third countries are being sent to Equatorial Guinea, where they are often sent back to the very countries they fled
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'Knowledge is power' - Awoniyi
Nigeria's Taiwo Awoniyi explains why he values education so highly, having completed a course which could see him become one of football's future leaders.
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Middle East Dispatch newsletter: The new Judaism reshaping Israel
A radical shift is taking place at Jerusalem’s holiest site, writes Nicolas Pelham, our Middle East correspondent
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