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September 24, 2018

Hundreds arrested in Ethiopia after violence around capital

An Ethiopian security official has confirmed the arrests of hundreds of youths in the capital, Addis Ababa, following ...

September 24, 2018

Kenya police charge provincial governor with student murder

Kenyan police have charged a provincial governor with the murder of a university student who claimed he had impregnated her ...

September 24, 2018

Kenya's military says it's killed 10 extremists in attack

Kenya's military says it's killed 10 rebels from the al-Shabab extremist group in an ambush in Kenya's south where several ...

September 24, 2018

Tanzania investigates ferry disaster which killed 225

Tanzania's government on Monday launched an inquest into the cause of the ferry disaster, in which 227 people died when a ...

September 23, 2018

Burials begin as deaths from capsized ferry rise to 224

Relatives wept in grief on Sunday at the mass burial in Tanzania of many of the 224 people who drowned when a ferry in ...

September 22, 2018

Tanzania death toll 209 as survivor found in capsized ferry

It was a stunning discovery. As rescue divers probed a capsized Tanzanian ferry two days after the disaster and the death ...

September 22, 2018

The Latest: Video shows rescued Tanzania ferry survivor

The Latest on capsized Tanzanian ferry (all times local): 9:45 p.m. Video footage of the survivor found in a capsized ...

September 22, 2018

US airstrike kills 18 al-Shabab after US attacked in Somalia

A U.S. military airstrike has killed 18 al-Shabab extremists after U.S. and local forces on the ground came under attack in ...

September 22, 2018

Congo reports Ebola death close to busy Ugandan border

A Congolese woman who refused an Ebola vaccination and then disappeared has died of the virus near the heavily traveled ...

September 21, 2018

Tanzania leader orders arrests as ferry death toll over 130

Hundreds of solemn people watched Friday as body after body was pulled from a capsized ferry that Tanzanian authorities said ...

September 21, 2018

Danish court: Man can be extradited to Rwanda for war crimes

An appeals court in Denmark says a man can be extradited to his native Rwanda where he is suspected of committing crimes ...

September 21, 2018

Despite protests, Russia's anti-doping agency reinstated

The World Anti-Doping Agency declared Russia's scandal-ridden drug-fighting operation back in business Thursday, a decision ...

September 20, 2018

The Latest: Dozens dead after ferry sinks on Lake Victoria

The Latest on capsized ferry in Tanzania (all times local): 10:25 p.m. A regional official in Tanzania says 44 people are ...

September 20, 2018

Ugandan pop star vows to fight on after arriving from US

Uganda's pop star politician Bobi Wine vowed Thursday to continue his fight for more freedom in the country "or we shall die ...

September 20, 2018

The Latest: Uganda's pop star politician vows to fight on

The Latest on Uganda's pop star politician (all times local): 4:25 p.m. Uganda's pop star politician Bobi Wine is vowing to ...

September 19, 2018

Somali officials: Airstrike kills or hurts several al-Shabab

Several senior officials with the al-Shabab extremist group have been killed or wounded in an airstrike in southern Somalia, ...

September 19, 2018

US tags Iran anew as top terror sponsor, global attacks fall

Iran remains the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, the Trump administration said Wednesday in an annual report that ...

September 17, 2018

Israel to approve immigration for 1,000 Ethiopian Jews

The Israeli government announced Monday that it agreed to absorb 1,000 Ethiopian Jews — accepting just a fraction of the ...

September 17, 2018

Ethiopians protest in capital against weekend violence

Several thousand Ethiopians demonstrated in the streets of the capital on Monday morning to protest ethnic-based attacks in ...