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  Nine dead after boat capsizes on Lake Albert in Uganda 

  Associated Press | Updated at 11:06am on December 27, 2016

  Ugandan authorities say at least nine people have drowned after a boat capsized on Lake Albert on Christmas day...

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  Boko Haram 'ousted from Sambisa forest bastion'

  BBC | Updated at 06:24pm on December 24, 2016

  The Nigerian army has driven Boko Haram extremists from the last camp in their Sambisa forest stronghold, president Muhammadu Buhari has said...

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  Ethnic militia clashes kill 18 in eastern Congo

  Reuters | Updated at 04:41pm on December 22, 2016

  Fighting between Hutu and Nande ethnic militias in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday killed 17 civilians and one police officer...

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  EgyptAir crash: Explosives found on victims

  BBC | Updated at 07:54pm on December 15, 2016

  Traces of explosives have been found on victims of the EgyptAir plane crash over the Mediterranean in May, investigators say...

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  UNICEF: 80,000 children will starve to death in Nigeria

  Associated Press | Updated at 11:53am on December 14, 2016

  Nearly a half million children will face starvation in northeastern Nigeria next year and 80,000 will die if they don’t get treatment in the humanitarian...

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  More than 100 killed in church collapse in Nigeria

  Reuters | Updated at 12:21pm on December 12, 2016

  At least 100 people were killed by the collapse of a church in southeastern Nigeria, a resident and photojournalist who visited a morgue...

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  At least 25 dead in blast at Cairo church

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 03:18pm on December 11, 2016

  A bombing in a Cairo church on Sunday near the headquarters of the Coptic pope killed at least 25 people...

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  More than 30 dead as tanker rams into vehicles on Kenya road

  Associated Press | Updated at 08:50am on December 11, 2016

  A tanker carrying chemical gas slammed into other vehicles and burst into flames on a major road in Kenya, killing more than 30 people and...

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  60 killed as crowded church collapses in Nigeria

  Associated Press | Updated at 08:32am on December 11, 2016

  The roof of a crowded church collapsed onto worshippers in southern Nigeria on Saturday, killing at least 60 people, witnesses and an official said...

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  Schoolgirl suicide bombers kill 56 in Nigerian market

  Reuters | Updated at 08:50am on December 10, 2016

  Two schoolgirl suicide bombers killed 56 people and wounded dozens more in a coordinated attack on a crowded market in the northeastern Nigerian town of...