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  1. Somalia's MPs get ready for presidential vote

    Somalia’s parliamentarians, and not citizens, will elect the next president on 15 May

  2. Christian student’s killing in Nigerian city condemned

    Religious and political leaders call for calm following killing of a Christian student

  3. Call for calm in Nigeria after Christian student’s killing

    The female student at a college in Sokoto city, was accused of 'blasphemy' against Islam

  4. Top DR Congo police officer found guilty of killing activist

    A DRC police commissioner has been sentenced to death for role in activist's murder

  5. Top DR Congo police officer sentenced to death for murder

    A Congolese police commissioner was found guilty of killing a human rights activist

  6. South Africa's Eskom ramps up power cuts

    South Africa's power utility Eskom has announced another phase of ‘scheduled blackouts’

  7. Google Translate adds 10 new African languages

    Google announces 24 more languages on its Translate platform, and 10 are from Africa

  8. Bomb blast in Mogadishu as presidential candidates give speeches

    Islamist militant group, al-Shabab, said it carried out the attack near the airport

  9. UN Goodwill Ambassador Sabrina Dhowre visits Kenya farmers

    Somalian-Canadian Sabrina Dhowre is helping to highlight the threats to rural communities

  10. Anger in South Sudan over oil deal

    South Sudan's Finance Minister, Agak Achuil admits a deal to sell crude oil at cheap rate

  11. Ghana re-builds its border with Togo

    Ghanaian and Togolese authorities begin the historic demarcation of the two nations

  12. Eight men trapped in a mine in Burkina Faso

    The wife of one of the miners says families feel abandoned with little information

  13. Somalia’s parliament prepares to choose next president

    Dozens of presidential hopefuls have announced their candidacy for Somalia’s May 15 vote

  14. Fuel crisis hitting households and industry sectors hard

    Flights are among services that have been disrupted as Africa faces worsening fuel crisis

  15. Africa’s fuel crisis

    Soaring prices mean Africa could be facing worst fuel crisis in decades, say analysts

  16. South Africa: Spike in Covid cases as fifth wave surges

    Infections have jumped from 6,000 to almost 10,000 cases a day

  17. Humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa

    Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia are facing a large-scale food insecurity

  18. Freed Kenyan cleric refuses to leave jail

    Despite being acquitted of terrorism charges

  19. 05/05/2022 GMT

    Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.

  20. Somalia to hold much-delayed elections on 15th May

    The Somali Parliament announced the election date with less than two weeks' notice

  21. Senegal tries midwives over hospital death

    A mother and her unborn child died after allegedly being denied a caesarean section

  22. United Nations chief concludes West Africa tour

    António Guterres speaks to Focus after his first visit to the continent in two years

  23. Burundi mourns soldiers killed in Somalia attack

    Burundi’s army says 10 soldiers were killed in the attack on an AU base in Somalia

  24. Al-Shabab attack on AU base in Somalia ‘a surprise’

    Several Burundi soldiers were killed in the attack on an African Union base in Somalia

  25. Russian mercenaries accused of atrocities in CAR

    Witnesses tell Human Rights Watch about summary executions and torture

  26. Rights group says Russian mercenaries operating in CAR

    Human Rights Watch say they have evidence members of the Wagner Group are in CAR

  27. UN chief visits insurgency victims in Nigeria’s Borno state

    UN Secretary General António Guterres is on a tour of West Africa

  28. ‘Not our war’: Africans leaving Ukraine recount their treatment

    Special report from the Ukraine/Poland border on the Africans who fled the Ukraine war

  29. Kenya’s president tells his deputy to resign

    President Uhuru Kenyatta and deputy William Ruto have had an ongoing tense relationship

  30. Kenya and Morocco announce wage increases

    The governments of Morocco and Kenya are increasing the minimum wage for workers

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