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Supporters of incumbent Ugandan Presdent Yoweri Museveni celebrate in the streets of Kampala today

Uganda's Museveni declared winner of presidential poll

World • 11 hrs

People walk in a town near Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, in Uganda

5 things to know about Uganda

World • 14 Jan

Ethiopian troops seen patrolling the streets of Addis Ababa (file image)

Ethiopian army deployed after 100 die in attacks

World • 24 Dec 20

The world's chocolate market is estimated to be worth more than $100 billion, concentrated in a small number of multinational corporations

Chocolate wars: Producers v Multinationals

News Lens • 02 Dec 20

Ethiopian refugees at the Um Rakuba camp in Sudan

UN says major humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ethiopia

World • 17 Nov 20

Training for militia men, who fight alongside federal and regional forces in Tigray

Amnesty says scores of civilians massacred in Ethiopia

World • 12 Nov 20

Members of the Amhara militia that fight alongside federal and regional forces against the northern region of Tigray

How Ethiopia reached the brink of civil war

News Lens • 11 Nov 20

Two weeks of spiralling protests in Nigeria

News Lens • 21 Oct 20

Witnesses said armed gunmen opened fire on a crowd of over 1,000 people to disperse them after a curfew was imposed

At least 12 killed in Nigeria shootings - Amnesty

World • 21 Oct 20

More than 116,000 Indian infants died from air pollution in the first month of life

Air pollution killed 500,000 newborns in 2019 - study

Environment • 21 Oct 20

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At least 45 migrants die in shipwreck off Libyan coast

World • 19 Aug 20

Malian Armed Forces at Independence Square in Bamako, Mali

Rebel troops seize Mali's president and prime minister

World • 18 Aug 20

The vaccine, developed by the Oxford Jenner Institute, is already being evaluated in Britain

South Africa to start continent's first vaccine pilot

World • 23 Jun 20

There is another Ebola outbreak in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo which has killed 2,280 people since August 2018

Fresh Ebola outbreak reported in DR Congo

World • 01 Jun 20

Around one million tourists visit Kenya every year to see the country's famous national parks

Pandemic poachers aim to make a killing

World • 16 May 20

Workers make facemasks at a factory in Accra, Ghana

Ghana lifts virus lockdown in key regions

Coronavirus • 20 Apr 20

Lesotho premier Thomas Thabane has promised to retire by the end of July

Lesotho army withdraws from the streets

World • 20 Apr 20

Flooding has hit eastern Congo hard for several weeks

Floods claim lives in Democratic Republic of Congo

World • 18 Apr 20

The countries to receive immediate debt relief are nearly all in Africa

IMF debt relief for 25 countries over Covid-19

Coronavirus • 14 Apr 20

People carry supplies on the streets of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

African countries unprepared for the storm

Coronavirus • 02 Apr 20

Members of the South African National Defence Force patrol a street in Johannesburg, South Africa, the continent's worst-affected country

Anxiety over threat of coronavirus in Africa

Coronavirus • 27 Mar 20

The attack early is part of an expanding jihadist campaign in the vast, marshy Lake Chad area

92 Chadian soldiers killed in attack by Boko Haram

News • 24 Mar 20

Mozambique is generally seen as a smuggling corridor for migrants seeking to make their way to South Africa

64 found dead in freight container in Mozambique

News • 24 Mar 20

69 people were killed in the Sharpeville massacre in 1960

South African massacre remembered 60 years on

World • 21 Mar 20

Swarms can travel up to 150 km a day and contain between 40-80 million locusts per square kilometre

African nations racing to control locust swarms

News Lens • 27 Feb 20

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