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Mogadishu blasts kill over 200
Reuters . Mogadishu | Updated at 12:05am on October 16, 2017
More than 200 people were killed in near simultaneous bombings in the Somali capital and more than 250 people were injured, officials said on Sunday,...
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Expelled refugee student kills seven in Kenyan school
Reuters | Updated at 09:05am on October 15, 2017
An expelled student shot dead six of his former schoolmates and a security guard at his school in northern Kenya on Saturday, and was then...
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Gunmen kill two in attack on Kenya university students
Reuters | Updated at 02:42pm on October 10, 2017
Two staff members were killed and several students were wounded in Kenya when gunmen fired on vehicles carrying students to the...
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Gas explosion rocks Ghana’s capital Accra, causing fatalities
Reuters | Updated at 11:50am on October 08, 2017
A natural gas station in Ghana’s capital Accra exploded on Saturday evening, killing an unknown number of people, a government...
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US, Nigerien troops killed in ambush on patrol in Niger
Reuters | Updated at 09:15am on October 05, 2017
Five soldiers from Niger and three US Army Special Forces troops were killed and two wounded in an ambush on a joint patrol in southwest...
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At least 33 die in Nigeria boat capsize
Agence France-Presse | Updated at 09:35am on September 16, 2017
At least 33 people drowned after an overloaded boat carrying traders from Niger capsized in northwest Nigeria, the National Emergency Management said on Friday...
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Picket of Myanmar mission in S Africa turns violent
Agence France-Presse . Pretoria | Updated at 01:32am on September 16, 2017
A march by hundreds of demonstrators outside Myanmar’s embassy in South Africa against Naypyidaw’s alleged ‘ethnic cleansing’ of its Rohingya minority people turned violent on...
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DR Congo bus accident leaves 25 dead, dozens injured
Agence France-Presse | Updated at 12:31pm on September 11, 2017
Twenty five people were killed and 57 others injured Sunday when a bus overturned in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of...
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Eight Kenyan schoolgirls die in dormitory blaze
Reuters | Updated at 10:15am on September 03, 2017
Eight Kenyan teenage schoolgirls died and 10 more were hospitalised after a fire engulfed their boarding school dormitory in Nairobi early on Saturday morning, a...
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Kenyatta blasts court after vote annulled
BBC | Updated at 10:50am on September 02, 2017
Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta has branded judges in the country's Supreme Court ‘crooks’ after they annulled his win in presidential elections...