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Nigeria says it rescued more than 300 kidnap hostages in one operation Captives held in Kainji Lake national park forests, ransom economy persists alongside pay rises for soldiers
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Ceuta recovers 79 bodies after mass border crossing Spain and Morocco return most arrivals within days as NGOs warn on asylum access, unaccompanied minors and unidentified dead become the lasting case file
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DR Congo Ebola outbreak becomes country’s largest on record WHO cites accelerating spread across dozens of health zones, response depends on security and surveillance more than medicine
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Kenyan court rejects religious marijuana exemption Rastafari Society vows appeal after Kibera groundation gathering, prohibition stays enforceable through street-level discretion
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Liberia sacks officials after record cocaine seizures Roberts International Airport becomes the bottleneck in West Africa’s Europe-bound transit trade, dismissals arrive faster than convictions
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Fifteen elephants die near Kenya’s Amboseli park Kenya Wildlife Service probes possible poisoning after paralysis reports, lab results conflict as tourism ecosystem depends on land beyond park gates
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Ugandan court drops case against women jailed over alleged public kiss Anti-homosexuality law still leaves arrests and custody as the penalty, five months in prison ended without a verdict
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UK cancels British Army training exercise in Kenya Defence agreement stalls over jurisdiction for offences by British soldiers, BATUK economic benefits collide with demands for accountability
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Africa becomes largest hunger hotspot UN food security report shows population growth outweighs slight prevalence drop, 2030 projections put most hunger on one continent
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São Tomé and Príncipe votes in tense presidential election Vila Nova runs as independent after split with ADI, constitutional court disqualification becomes a campaign issue
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Killings continue at Del Monte pineapple farm in Kenya G4S security and police patrol export-critical site, oversight probe follows family accounts of close-range shooting
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Xenophobic violence drives refugees into street camps in Durban El País reports door-to-door attacks and police inaction, migrants return home as livelihoods collapse
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South Africa World Cup midfielder Jayden Adams dies aged 25 Police open investigation after body found in Cape Town, cause of death not disclosed
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UN Human Rights Council labels neglected tropical diseases a human rights issue DRC Ebola outbreak spreads as conflict and aid cuts disrupt containment, Geneva resolution meets field reality in Ituri and Kivu
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Unesco says 113 developing countries spend more on debt service than education Donor aid to schooling falls as repayments hit 35-year high, private creditors can still block relief deals
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Egypt files complaint to FIFA after World Cup loss to Argentina Federation cites VAR failures and double standards, tournament governance meets a commercial incentive to move on
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Liberia charges five after cocaine seizure at Monrovia airport Shipment was disguised as Maggi seasoning cubes and linked to earlier consignment, parliament probes delay in naming suspects
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Archaeologists uncover Byzantine-era settlement in Egypt’s Dakhla oasis Ministry highlights church streets and ostraca records, tourism pitch rides on catalogued daily life
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Botswana High Court hears same sex marriage challenge Black lesbian couple seeks legal recognition amid regional rollbacks, ministries face a ruling that would have to be implemented not just declared
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Drone strikes hit El Obeid in Sudan UN warns of looming atrocities as RSF and army converge, trenches and expanding camps map a city preparing for siege
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Floods kill 59 in Côte d’Ivoire Torrential rains hit Ghana Nigeria and Benin, urban growth and blocked drainage turn storms into infrastructure failures
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Niger arrests dozens under new anti-LGBTQ+ penal code First criminalisation of same-sex relations follows junta constitutional rewrite, HIV services for men shut down as prosecutions expand
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Boko Haram survivors describe childhood abductions in Borno Splintered insurgency and criminal gangs keep schools in the crosshairs, rescue and stigma arrive together
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Uganda troops shut down Daily Monitor operations Army chief Muhoozi Kainerugaba claims power to close any media house, succession politics moves from ballots to barracks
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Burkina Faso severs diplomatic ties with France Junta cites neo-colonialism claims as Paris weighs reciprocal steps, security partnership ends as civilian death allegations mount
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Ebola teams flee Congo displacement camp after residents reject diagnosis Contact tracing stalls as outbreaks spread through conflict zones, Kenya protests US quarantine plan despite no local cases
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Canada denies Thomas Partey World Cup entry Ghana midfielder faces UK rape charges while pleading not guilty, FIFA says host states control visas
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Johannesburg mass shooting kills 12 Attackers arrive in minibus taxi and flee before police arrive, a city with high murder rates keeps absorbing new crime scenes
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Nigerian communities negotiate peace deals with bandit gangs Local mediators trade access for calm as kidnappings and protection taxes outcompete state security
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US border officials deny entry to Somali World Cup referee Omar Artan FIFA says immigration status will not be changed, global tournament staffing meets airport-level discretion
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USAID contraceptives for Africa remain stranded in Belgium Trump-era aid dismantling leaves Kenyan clinics rationing supplies, post-abortion care cases rise at one Nairobi centre
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Elephants raid Zambian farms near Livingstone Drought and growing herds push wildlife out of parks, a single night’s crop loss becomes the price of conservation corridors
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Kenya court blocks US Ebola quarantine camp Satellite images show Laikipia air base construction continues after protest deaths, tent city becomes the policy document
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Sudan tracks thousands of stolen antiquities Khartoum museums looted during civil war as databases vanish, rewards and Interpol links replace locked display cases
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Reflective roof paint cools African homes by several degrees in field trials Researchers track sleep and health impacts across South Africa and Ghana, heat adaptation arrives as a consumer product
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Botswana drug shortages deepen as diamond slump squeezes state procurement Patients pushed into private medicine markets despite universal-care promise, decade-old reform warnings sit unanswered
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Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo kills hospital staff Suspected case count tops 900 as Ituri facilities lose doctors and nurses, Uganda reports travel-linked infections in Kampala
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Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga dies in The Hague custody Trial had been halted after judges ruled him unfit due to dementia, tribunal ends with evidence heard but no verdict
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Bundibugyo Ebola kills at least 65 in eastern DR Congo Suspected cases reported near mining towns and border crossings, outbreak response lacks a licensed vaccine
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MSF hospital in South Sudan left bombed and looted Lankien facility served as only secondary care in region, oxygen concentrators and power panels torn out after strike
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Macron pitches new Africa partnership in Nairobi Africa Forward summit breaks francophone tradition as France retreats from Sahel bases, sovereignty rhetoric meets investment term sheets
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Museveni begins seventh term in Uganda Son Muhoozi Kainerugaba runs inauguration choreography as army chief, succession debate narrows to parliament and barracks
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Cape Verde builds a tech state while Somali police detain journalists £45m TechParkCV aims to make digital sector a quarter of GDP by 2030, Mogadishu counter-terror unit accused of beatings and death threats after torture reporting
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Iyad Ag Ghali tightens grip on Mali insurgency El País says jihadists blockade Bamako as Kidal falls, junta refusal to negotiate meets a supply-line war
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Nigeria and Ghana protest South Africa anti-migrant marches Operation Dudula and March to March blamed for harassment and looting, evacuation flights begin as neighbours threaten retaliation
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Cape Verde blocks MV Hondius docking Suspected hantavirus cluster leaves three dead and one in ICU, WHO confirmation turns cruise itinerary into a health jurisdiction test
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Pretoria march demands mass deportations Civic group March and March blames weak immigration enforcement and untaxed spaza shops, foreign missions urge nationals to stay indoors
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Islamic State claims Adamawa football pitch attack BBC reports at least 29 killed in hours-long raid, villagers flee as Nigeria counts prosecutions not protection
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Mali defence minister Sadio Camara killed in suicide truck bombing Coordinated attacks hit Bamako area and northern garrisons, state control claims collide with reports of Russian withdrawal from Kidal
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Trophy hunting funds conservation in Mozambique reserve Niassa quotas sell kills to pay for patrols across Switzerland-sized landscape, scarcity raises both protection budgets and price tags
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US arrests Iranian American woman over alleged arms deals to Sudan Prosecutors cite drone and ammunition brokering via private company, sanctions enforcement targets intermediaries while wars keep buying
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Sudanese refugees pile up in Morocco UNHCR runs asylum processing while the state limits work and services, border policing turns protection into a moving queue
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Crocodile attacks rise around Lake Turkana Higher water pushes predators into Kenyan settlements, amputations and displacement follow a shoreline that no longer stays put
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Kenyan court jails ant smuggler for one year More than 2200 insects found in test tubes bound for China, small wildlife trafficking cases expose larger supply chains
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Donors pledge more than one billion euros for Sudan Berlin conference raises funds as war enters fourth year, neither Sudanese army nor RSF shows up
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Nigeria air strike hits market in Yobe Local chief and Amnesty cite up to 200 civilian deaths, military calls mission successful and cites motorcycle ban
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Somalia drought and aid cuts push 6.5 million toward crisis hunger US humanitarian funding drops from $462m to $3m year-on-year, water trucks become last-mile lifeline in Baidoa camps
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Senegal doubles maximum sentence for same-sex acts Burkina Faso and Uganda tighten penalties across region, public health outreach becomes collateral under promotion bans
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Lagos Lagoon dredging deepens channels for building sand NIOMR study finds seabed eroded by nearly six metres near Banana Island, fishing communities pay in fuel and lost shoreline
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Ugandan farmers sue EACOP developers in London TotalEnergies and CNOOC face High Court claim over pipeline harms, land compensation dispute turns into lender risk
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Four children killed in Kampala day-care stabbing Police arrest suspect at scene and fire warning shots to stop mob justice, routine security costs collide with a crowded childcare market
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Burundi ammunition depot blast sends projectiles into Bujumbura homes Military cites electrical accident in Musaga, safety costs surface only when storage fails in public view
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Gunmen kill dozens in Jos Nigeria Plateau state imposes curfew after Palm Sunday attack, recurring Middle Belt violence again outpaces investigations
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South Africa renames Graaff-Reinet to Robert Sobukwe Survey finds over 80 percent local opposition as minister approves change, symbolism moves faster than municipal paperwork
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Two migrants face court in Crete deaths case Survivors say smugglers threw 22 people overboard after six days adrift from Tobruk, EU return-hub push leaves upstream networks untouched
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Sudan drone strikes shadow El Fasher evacuation Guardian reports up to 10000 killed as RSF takes city, remote warfare scales faster than diplomacy
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Kenya exhumes 33 bodies from Kericho mass grave Investigators say remains were moved from hospital morgue, missing paperwork turns the dead into an administrative problem
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Kenya hosts Africa’s first Our Ocean Conference Conservation pledges collide with weak EEZ enforcement and deep-sea mining scramble, paperwork travels faster than patrol boats
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Sanctioned Russian LNG carrier drifts toward Libya Italy warns vessel now inside Libyan rescue zone after suspected drone attack, environmental risk shifts from owners to coastal authorities
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Triple suicide bombing kills at least 25 in Maiduguri Attacks hit market hospital gate and flyover in Borno capital, army victory claims struggle to translate into civilian safety
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Drone strike kills schoolgirls in Sudan Satellite data points to systematic attacks on farming villages, starvation and airpower merge into a war economy
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ISWAP overruns Nigerian bases in Borno Coordinated raids kill dozens of soldiers and abduct hundreds, army disputes toll while claiming control
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UK Mother’s Day flower boom draws on Kenyan labour Kenya supplies most British roses while workers report long hours and chemical exposure, ethical labels compete with price pressure
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Floating fishmeal factories target Guinea-Bissau waters Guardian investigation tracks motherships and illegal sardinella supply, protected zones depend on enforcement not maps
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South African women train with guns and martial arts amid femicide crisis Government declares national disaster but shelters and policing lag, private security expands as households buy protection directly
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Heavy rains flood Nairobi and strand motorists Military deployed as Red Cross teams struggle to reach residents, clogged drains and neglected maintenance turn seasonal weather into recurring transport shutdowns
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Khalifa Haftar blocks EU delegation in Benghazi Libya’s recognised governments lack control of oil and migration routes, Visitors leave from the airport lounge
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US deportees sue Eswatini over detention Third-country removals shift legal responsibility across borders, A paid holding cell replaces due process
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South Sudan raid kills at least 169 people UN shelters over 1000 civilians as Kiir-Machar tensions flare, aid groups lose staff and clinics to a war economy that survives every peace deal
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Belgium seizes suspected Russian shadow fleet tanker Prosecutors say Ethera used false Guinea flag and forged papers, Sanctions enforcement reaches ships faster than the enablers
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Ghana says 55 citizens killed after being lured to fight for Russia Kyiv links African recruitment to a wider brokered pipeline, Families and consular services absorb the costs
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UN sanctions four RSF commanders in Sudan Measures target el-Fasher atrocities after UN experts cite hallmarks of genocide, Individual blacklists leave war logistics and revenue systems intact
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Sudan government condemns RSF chief Uganda visit RSF claims capture of Chad-border town, Border control turns diplomacy into revenue
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Botswana president declares diamond-funded health system failed Revenue shock exposes procurement rents and outsourcing hollowing, Nationalisation pitched as fix for accountability gap
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UN report: Libya runs migrant detention as profit-sharing industry Militias and state-linked actors trade interception for ransom and forced labour, Humanitarian border policy quietly subsidises torture logistics
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Motorcycle gunmen kill at least 50 in northwest Nigeria Raids exploit slow state security response, Violence market outcompetes monopoly on force
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New Spinosaurus mirabilis described from Niger Sahara fossils Science paper argues wading fish-hunter not fully aquatic predator, armed state guard and coup-disrupted transport show paleontology as regulated resource extraction
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Gabon orders social media blackout HAC cites national security while NetBlocks sees YouTube TikTok Facebook WhatsApp disrupted, VPN demand explodes as regime uses telecom licenses as censorship switch
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Sudan RSF drone strike in Kordofan kills aid workers Cheap UAVs turn humanitarian logistics into targetable infrastructure
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Morocco sentences 19 AFCON final fans to up to 1 year in prison Pitch-storming and damage charges weaponize collective deterrence, crowd control doctrine travels well beyond football
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US quietly deports asylum seekers to Cameroon Third-country transfers turn asylum into jurisdictional arbitrage, rights disappear once paperwork becomes logistics
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Zimbabwe beat Sri Lanka to stay unbeaten in T20 World Cup Short-format variance rewards tactics and individual nerve over cricket bureaucracies, Rich boards watch underfunded teams rewrite odds
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South Africa arrests Robert Mugabe son after gardener shot Mugabe-era impunity exports itself across borders, Rule-of-law theater appears when famous names enter police blotter
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Florida Palm Beach Zoo team trains Zimbabwe rhino to accept eyedrops voluntarily Private lodge-backed conservation program avoids sedation by behavioral conditioning, Ridiculous idea beats international ritual
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UN fact-finding mission: RSF siege of El Fasher shows hallmarks of genocide Darfur atrocities documented as drone war and foreign backing continue
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Kenyan intelligence: 1 000+ nationals recruited into Russian army, Rogue agencies allegedly use visas and state insiders to feed Ukraine front
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US reportedly sends asylum seekers to Cameroon Third-country removals expand beyond border theater, Due process becomes a flight manifest
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