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Nigeria's main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) has formed an alliance with dozens of other parties in a bid to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in next year's election. The coalition, including a faction of the governing party,…
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Nineteen divers have entered the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand on a gruelling, hazardous mission to rescue those people still trapped inside. They extracted a ninth boy on Tuesday, the Thai Navy said, with unconfirmed reports of two…
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The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea have signed a declaration saying that the state of war between the two countries is over. A peace deal ending the 1998-1999 border conflict has never been fully implemented and there has been tension…
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As many as 40 tonnes of heroin could be passing through Mozambique every year, making it the country's second biggest export, in a trade that is boosted by the use of mobile phone apps, writes Mozambique analyst Joseph Hanlon. Mozambique…
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One of South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma's sons has been charged in court with corruption. Duduzane Zuma was chained by the ankles as he arrived in court in the main city, Johannesburg, a journalist has tweeted from the scene:…
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Dormitories at three schools in Kenya have been set ablaze, in the latest unrest to hit schools in the East African state, the local Daily Nation newspaper reports. The fires swept through St Mary's Girls School, Kathera Boys Secondary…
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Cave divers in Thailand have resumed the high-risk operation to extract the remaining eight boys and their football coach from a vast flooded cave system, the head of the mission has said. Four boys were brought safely out of the cave on…
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Militants have launched their first major attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu since the start of Ramadan almost two months ago. Journalists say al-Shabab fighters stormed the ministry of the interior and national security after…
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South Sudan’s former vice president Riek Machar will be reinstated in his position as part of a peace deal to end a near five-year-old war that has devastated Africa’s youngest nation, the presidency said on Sunday. According to a…
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The operation to free 12 boys and their coach from a cave in northern Thailand is running "smoothly", the head of the operation says. At least four boys have been brought above ground, rescuers say, although local media have put it at six.…
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