Africa

Four people were killed and many others were injured in a stampede on Friday during National Heroes’ Day celebrations on Mashujaa Day in the western Kenyan city of Kericho, police said. The incident occurred at around 03:00 local time when…

Burkina Faso’s health ministry has declared a dengue fever epidemic amid the deadliest outbreak in years in which more than 200 people have died and new cases are rising sharply. There have been 50,478 suspected cases and 214 deaths of…

At least 49 people were killed and 120 others are missing after a boat capsized Saturday in Mbandaka city on the Congo River in northwest Equateur Province, Anadolu Agency reported. “The boat was traveling to Bolomba when it tipped over…

Hundreds of Kenyan Muslims marched on the country’s Supreme Court Friday in protest against a recent decision upholding the right of LGBTQ groups to associate and form non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Deutsche Welle reported on Saturday, October 7. Angered Muslims carrying…

A suicide bomber blew himself up on Friday at a tea shop in Somalia’s capital, killing at least seven people, Al Jazeera reported. The Sunni-extremist al-Shabab terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on its Arabic media…

Security forces have rescued 14 of at least 20 students abducted from a university in northwestern Nigeria and are searching for the remaining captives, school authorities say. Gunmen attacked the school in Zamfara state’s Bungudu district last week and fled…

At least 70 members of the Sunni extremist group al-Shabaab were killed Sunday in a military operation conducted by the Somali National Army backed by local militias in north-central Mudug province. The joint force raided al-Shabaab terrorist hideouts and gathering…

The death toll in a truck bomb explosion that targeted a security checkpoint in a residential area in the central Somali town of Beledweyne has risen to 18, a top regional official said on Saturday. According to the director-general of…

At least 30 refugees have died of hunger and malnutrition in Ethiopia’s Gambella region, said Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on Wednesday, calling for the immediate resumption of nutritionally adequate food assistance to all refugee communities. Close to 400,000 refugees…

In response to a suicide bombing on the Galmudug state president, killing two soldiers and injuring two members of Somalia’s Federal Parliament, the Somali army launched a military operation on Saturday which killed at least 30 al-Shabaab terrorists and liberated…