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August 24, 2019
UN says thousands of DR Congo refugees returning from Angola
KINSHASA - Thousands of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo in Angola have returned home in the past week, UN and government sources said on Friday, following improved security there."An estimated 8,500 refugees have spontaneously left the Lovua settlement in Angola's Lunda Norte province since 18 August with the intention of returning home to the Democratic Republic of Congo," a spokesman for the UN refugee agency UNHCR told reporters ...
August 22, 2019
Somalia's Jubbaland president wins new term amid rift with central govt
GAROWE, Somalia — The president of Jubbaland, a Somali region critical to East Africa's fight against Al-Shabaab militants, won a new term on Thursday, amid a growing rift between the federal government and its semi-autonomous states.The contest has stoked tensions between Kenya and Ethiopia, longtime allies who both have large contingents of peacekeepers in the country and see Jubbaland as a buffer zone against militant attacks in their own countries.Kenya ...
August 19, 2019
Police open fire on protesters in D.R. Congo, killing 3
BENI, D.R. Congo — Two people and a child were killed in a town in eastern DR Congo on Monday when police opened fire at a protest over poor security, a local official said"There was a demonstration in which three people have just died — a young man of about 25 who was shot in the abdomen and died in the hospital, a Pygmy who was shot and died immediately, ...
August 19, 2019
19 killed in Uganda fuel truck blast: Police
KAMPALA — Nineteen people died when a fuel truck barrelled into other vehicles in a busy town in western Uganda and exploded, police said on Monday.The blast occurred on Sunday evening in the Kyambura trading center, a mountainous area near the Queen Elizabeth National Park."Ten people died instantly when the fuel truck lost control and hit three other vehicles, leading to multiple explosions that also burned 25 small shops," said ...
August 19, 2019
Ebola spreads to remote, militia-run Congo territory
GOMA, CONGO - Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed a new case of Ebola in the remote, militia-controlled territory of Walikale, hundreds of kilometers away from where previous cases near the border with Uganda and Rwanda occurred, the Health Ministry said overnight.Pinga, the village where the case was reported, lies about 150 km (95 miles) northwest of Goma, one of the towns affected by the Ebola epidemic, ...
August 19, 2019
Police, soldiers deploy in Zimbabwe's Bulawayo as opposition challenges protest ban
BULAWAYO, ZIMBABWE - Soldiers and police deployed in large numbers in Zimbabwe's second city Bulawayo on Monday to enforce a ban on an anti-government demonstration, as the country's main opposition party sought to overturn that decision in court.The street protest was the second called in four days by the Movement for Democratic Change's (MDC), which accuses President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of repression and economic mismanagement.Authorities had also banned Friday's gathering ...
August 16, 2019
Zimbabwe police beat protesters as opposition denounces 'fascist' government
HARARE - Zimbabwe police fired tear gas and beat scores of opposition supporters gathered in central Harare on Friday, as authorities moved to enforce a ban on an anti-government protest that the country's high court had upheld.More than a hundred Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters defied the ban, witnesses said. They clashed with police who fired tear gas and water cannon, chasing them from one of the city's main ...
August 14, 2019
Somalia's Al-Shabaab hits military base, deaths on both sides
MOGADISHU — Militant group Al-Shabaab struck a Somali government military base on Wednesday with car bombs and gunfire in a battle that both sides said caused multiple deaths to the other.Witnesses said some local residents were also killed by stray crossfire during the mid-morning attack on the base in Awdheegle, 70 km southwest of the capital Mogadishu.Al-Shabaab is fighting the weak, UN-backed Somali government and its international allies in a ...
August 13, 2019
Burundian YouTube child star's death spotlights malaria epidemic
NAIROBI - The death of a six-year-old YouTube star from a malaria epidemic in Burundi has spotlighted the growing challenge of combating malaria in a warmer world, health experts said on Tuesday.Darcy Irakoze - known as Kacaman - who was popular for his comedy performances on YouTube and in local theaters, died on Thursday after contracting the mosquito-borne disease in his home city of Gitega, east of the commercial capital ...
August 11, 2019
Tanzania mourns 64 killed in fuel tanker blast
MOROGORO, Tanzania — Tanzania was in mourning on Sunday, preparing to bury the dead after 64 people perished when a crashed fuel tanker exploded as crowds rushed to syphon off leaking petrol.President John Magufuli declared a period of mourning through Monday following the deadly blast near the town of Morogoro, west of Dar es Salaam.He will be represented at the funerals by Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa, an official statement said.The ...
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