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  34 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Djibouti

  Agence France-Presse . Djibouti | Updated at 01:00am on April 13, 2021

  Thirty-four migrants drowned on Monday after their boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organisation for Migration said, the second such accident in...

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  5 militia fighters killed in ‘intense’ combat with DRC soldiers

  Agence France-Presse . Bukavu | Updated at 02:57pm on April 11, 2021

  Democratic Republic of Congo soldiers have killed five militia fighters in ‘intense’ combat in the country’s troubled east, the army said on Saturday...

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  IS-linked jihadists attack humanitarian facilities in Nigeria

  Agence France-Presse . Kano | Updated at 11:44am on April 11, 2021

  Islamic State-linked jihadists in Nigeria attacked humanitarian facilities in the restive northeastern town of Damasak, aid workers told AFP on Saturday...

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  6 killed in Somali suicide bomb attack

  Agence France-Presse . Mogadishu | Updated at 09:12pm on April 10, 2021

  Six civilians died and seven more were injured on Saturday when an Al-Shabaab suicide bomber blew himself up outside a cafe in Somalia, police and...

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  24 killed in western DR Congo road accident

  Agence France-Presse . Kikwit | Updated at 04:02pm on April 10, 2021

  Twenty-four people died and more than 20 others were injured in a collision on a major highway in western Democratic of Republic of Congo, a...

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  12 beheaded in Mozambique attack in March: security sources

  Agence France-Presse . Maputo | Updated at 03:36pm on April 10, 2021

  Twelve decapitated bodies were found after a jihadist raid on the Mozambique town of Palma last month, strewn in front of a hotel where dozens...

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  300 killed in March outbreak of Ethiopia ethnic violence

  Agence France-Presse . Addis Ababa | Updated at 12:36am on April 10, 2021

  Clashes involving Ethiopia’s two largest ethnic groups killed more than 300 people over several days last month, a federal official said Friday, the latest sign...

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  Sudanese women march demanding equal rights

  Agence France-Presse . Khartoum | Updated at 12:35am on April 10, 2021

  Hundreds of women demonstrated in Khartoum on Thursday demanding reforms to ensure equality, two years on since the mass protests that led to the fall...

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  UN ‘appalled’ by deadly Darfur clashes

  Agence France-Presse . Geneva | Updated at 12:32am on April 10, 2021

  The United Nations said on Friday it was ‘appalled’ by the resurgence of violence in Sudan’s West Darfur region, saying all tribes responsible for the...

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  Record levels of hunger in Congo: UN

  Agence France-Presse . Kinshasa | Updated at 11:13pm on April 07, 2021

  A record 27.3 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo are facing acute hunger, one-third of the violence-wracked central African country’s population, two UN...