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Sun, 29 Aug 2021 09:51:02 +0000News24.com | War-weary Libyans yearn for end to daily blackouts
Walk down any commercial street in the Libyan capital Tripoli and the pavements will be lined with generators ready to spring into action whenever the mains electricity supply cuts out.
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 06:27:23 +0000News24.com | 19 civilians killed in DR Congo by Islamic State-linked militants
Nineteen civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were burned and hacked to death on Friday by Ugandan Islamist rebels, a local official said on Saturday.
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 06:27:23 +0000News24.com | Chad rebel group FACT is willing to join national dialogue, says spokesman
A Chadian military-political rebel group behind this year's deadly insurgency said on Friday it was prepared to take part in a national dialogue proposed by transitional president Mahamat Idriss Deby.
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 17:00:29 +0000News24.com | Methane spotted leaking from African greenhouse gas hotspot
A series of large methane plumes were detected by satellite near oil and gas fields, processing plants and pipelines in Algeria, which is among the world’s top emitters of the potent greenhouse gas.
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Sat, 28 Aug 2021 15:47:17 +0000News24.com | Zimbabwe union takes state, companies to court over forced shots
Zimbabwe's biggest workers' union has taken the state and several firms to court for insisting that employees must be inoculated against Covid-19 before reporting for work.
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:59:08 +0000News24.com | Ex-economist takes Zambia from default to investor darling within a week
Zambia's new president, Hakainde Hichilema, is turning the nation’s economic fortunes around barely a week into the job.
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 12:01:24 +0000News24.com | DR Congo's former health minister held over Covid funds fraud
Former DR Congo health minister Eteni Longondo was detained on Friday over the alleged misappropriation of funds allocated to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, official sources said.
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:52:51 +0000News24.com | WATCH | Nigerian gunmen free around 30 more kidnapped students: representative
Nigerian gunmen have freed 32 more students kidnapped in July from a Baptist school in northwest Kaduna state, a church leader and family representative said on Friday.
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:20:21 +0000News24.com | Mozambique’s former finance minister remains in South African prison after case postponed
Mozambique’s former finance minister will spend at least three more weeks in a South African prison after the hearing was postponed to September.
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 13:57:54 +0000News24.com | Uganda says it foiled attack on 'Lion of Mogadishu's funeral
Uganda has said it had foiled a suicide bomb attack against the state funeral of a top police and army commander who led a major African Union offensive against al-Shabaab.
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 11:59:56 +0000News24.com | Nigerian gunmen free dozens of kidnapped pupils, says head teacher
Nigerian gunmen have freed the remaining pupils from more than 100 kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in northwestern Niger State nearly three months ago.
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 11:16:20 +0000News24.com | Justice dept to oppose bid to stop extradition of Mozambique's former finance minister
A group of Mozambican civil society organisations approached the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg to overturn minister Ronald Lamola’s order to hand former finance minister Manuel Chang over to Mozambican authorities.
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:14:57 +0000News24.com | Nine killed as crane collapses in Nairobi
Nine people, including two Chinese, were killed and two others injured after a crane collapsed at a construction site in Kenya's capital Nairobi, police said.
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:53:38 +0000News24.com | WHO begins shipping Chinese vaccines despite some misgivings
The World Health Organization's pandemic programme plans to ship 100 million doses of the Sinovac and Sinopharm Covid-19 shots by the end of next month, mostly to Africa and Asia, in its first delivery of Chinese vaccines, a WHO document shows.
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:40:03 +0000News24.com | Arab League, OIC call for Algeria-Morocco dialogue amid spat
The two groups and Saudi Arabia decry the diplomatic rift and ask the North African rivals to resolve the conflict.
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:27:04 +0000News24.com | 'SA govt should speak out.' Nigerian tax tumult hits MultiChoice
South African companies are being hit by Nigerian regulatory woes and an analyst says it is time for the SA government to act.
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 07:03:25 +0000News24.com | Ethiopia announces fresh delays to polls
Ethiopian authorities have postponed polls in around a fifth of the country's constituencies, extending a months-long delay which prevented citizens from voting in a June election due to ethnic violence and logistical problems.
Wed, 25 Aug 2021 19:29:53 +0000News24.com | Gunmen kill 36 villagers in Nigeria's divided Plateau state
Attackers shot dead at least 36 people and destroyed buildings in a night raid on a village near the central Nigerian city of Jos, officials said, in an area hit by repeated ethnic clashes.
Wed, 25 Aug 2021 17:33:47 +0000News24.com | Attacker kills three police and security guard near French embassy in Tanzania
An attacker wielding an assault rifle was shot dead after killing three police and an employee of a private security company near the French embassy in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said.