Halle, Apr. 4, (dpa/GNA) – More than a third of the great ape population in Africa is endangered by mining, according to a new study. The threat…
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Luke Fleurs: South African footballer shot dead in car hijacking
April 4 (BBC/GNA) – South African footballer Luke Fleurs has been shot dead in a car hijacking, police say. The shooting took place at…
Uganda’s Constitutional Court upholds criminalizing homosexual acts
Nairobi, Apr. 3, (dpa/GNA) – Uganda’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday upheld a controversial law that criminalizes homosexual acts, retaining almost all its provisions, including the options of…
New Senegalese president appoints controversial ally prime minister
Dakar, Apr. 3, (dpa/GNA) – Newly elected Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has formally appointed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko the country’s new prime minister. Faye, 44, made…
Cattle thieves in South Sudan attack two villages, kill 24
Juba, Apr. 2, (dpa/GNA) – At least 24 people were killed in armed attacks by cattle thieves on two villages in South Sudan on Monday, according to…
Mali’s opposition, civil society groups demand democratic elections
Bamako, Apr. 2, (dpa/GNA) – A coalition of Malian opposition parties and civil society organizations called for democratic elections in the country which is ruled by the…
Bus carrying Easter worshippers falls off cliff killing 45 people in South Africa
March 29 (CNN/GNA) — Dozens of worshippers died after a bus headed to an Easter conference plunged off a cliff in South Africa’s Limpopo province on…
At least 12 dead in Madagascar as cyclone Gamane strikes
Antananarivo, Mar. 28, (dpa/GNA) – At least 12 people have died in the south-east African island state of Madagascar as cyclone Gamane struck the country. Around 21,000…
At least 11 dead in Madagascar as cyclone Gamane strikes
Antananarivo, March 28, (dpa/GNA) – At least 11 people have died in the south-east African island state of Madagascar, as cyclone Gamane struck the…
A Nigerian woman reviewed some tomato puree online. Now she faces jail
Abuja, March 27 (CNN/GNA) — A Nigerian woman who wrote an online review of a can of tomato puree is facing imprisonment after its manufacturer accused…
Senegal decides – Ruling party candidate Ba accepts defeat, congratulates opposition Faye
Dakar, Mar. 26, (Allafrica/GNA) – Like Mr Ba, some of the other 15 presidential candidates in Senegal have also congratulated Mr Faye. The former…
Several migrants found dead off Tunisia’s coastal city of Sfax
Cairo, Mar.26, (dpa/GNA) – The Tunisian coastguard said they recovered the bodies of five migrants off the coast of Sfax in the Mediterranean Sea…
Abducted Nigerian schoolchildren have been freed, official says
Dakar, March 24, (dpa/GNA) – A group of nearly 300 schoolchildren, abducted by gunmen from their school in north-western Nigeria two weeks ago, are…
Another 14 people abducted in north-west Nigeria
Lagos, Mar. 18, (dpa/GNA) – At least 14 people were abducted during an attack on a village in the north-western Kaduna State of Nigeria, an official said…
Glitch allows Ethiopia bank customers to withdraw millions
March 10 (BBC/GNA) – Ethiopia’s largest commercial bank is trying to retrieve millions of dollars withdrawn by its customers after an incident it described…
At least 6 dead in attack on hotel in Mogadishu
Mogadishu, Mar. 15, (dpa/GNA) – At least six people were killed in an attack by the Islamist terrorist militia al-Shabaab on a hotel near the presidential palace…
Nigerian Islamic police arrest non-fasting Muslims during Ramadan
March 13 (BBC/GNA) – The Islamic police in Nigeria’s northern state of Kano arrested 11 Muslims on Tuesday who were seen eating food during…
Nigeria risks losing all its forest elephants – what we found when we went looking for them
Abuja, Mar. 12, (AllAfrica/GNA) – Nigeria is one of 37 African countries where elephants are found in the wild. Savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) can be found…
Nigeria: Neglected humanitarian crisis escalates in northwest Nigeria
Abuja, Mar. 12, (AllAfrica/GNA) – The level of humanitarian support available to respond to people’s critical needs in northern Nigeria is in dramatic decline.…
Zimbabwe: 13 Zimbabweans Killed, 26 injured in bus, truck collision in Cape Town
Cape Town, Mar. 12, (AllAfrica/GNA) – Zimbabweans have reportedly died after a bus they were travelling in from Harare was involved in a fatal…