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MAPUTO/DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Eleven people were killed in an attack last week by an Islamist militant armed group in northern Mozambique near its border with Tanzania, Mozambican police said on Wednesday. Several of the attackers from the Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama (ASWJ) group were later arrested, police added, referring to a militia operating in the gas-rich northern province of… Read More

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe has run out of passports and vehicle registration number plates, forcing citizens to wait for long periods to get them – yet another sign of a desperate shortage of U.S. dollars in the southern African nation. A hoped-for economic turnaround under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took over from Robert Mugabe after a 2017 coup, is yet… Read More

WINDHOEK (Reuters) – The killing of a 50-year alpha elephant bull in Namibia has caused an uproar in the southern African nation, with conservation and tourism groups accusing the government of authorising the hunt for the animal without proper cause. The elephant was killed last week in the Omatjete area, 230 km (140 miles) from the coastal town of Swakopmund,… Read More

NAIROBI (Reuters) – The United States is resuming some assistance to a unit of the Somali military that is not working directly with U.S. forces, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, around 18 months after aid was suspended to such units over widespread corruption concerns. The assistance, part of U.S. military aid to the country aimed at helping the government fend… Read More

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Illegal miners at a copper and cobalt mine run by Glencore in southeastern Congo defied a deadline on Tuesday to vacate the site, a union official said, raising fears of a potentially violent standoff. A landslide last Thursday at the Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) concession, majority-owned by a subsidiary of Glencore, killed 43… Read More

ABUJA (Reuters) – At least 50 people were killed in Nigeria when fuel from a crashed truck that they were siphoning up caught fire, a spokesman for the governor in central Benue state said on Tuesday. “A tanker loaded with fuel fell yesterday (Monday) and people were scooping its products when it caught fire, killing over 50 persons,” the spokesman… Read More

ABUJA (Reuters) – At least 50 people were killed in Nigeria when fuel from a crashed truck that they were collecting caught fire, a spokesman for the governor in central Benue state said on Tuesday. “A tanker loaded with fuel fell yesterday (Monday) and people were scooping its products when it caught fire, killing over 50 persons,” the spokesman said.… Read More

BAMAKO (Reuters) – At least 23 people are dead and 300 missing after an attack on Sunday on a village of Fulani herders in central Mali where communal violence has surged in recent months, a local mayor said. Two other Fulani communities were targeted on Sunday evening, amid a string of deadly assaults between herders and ethnic Dogon farmers who… Read More

DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal has seized 798 kg of cocaine hidden inside new cars on a ship travelling from Brazil, the customs authority said on Sunday, the latest in a series of large seizures off the West African coast this year. It said the cocaine was discovered overnight inside 15 cars that the ship, which anchored at port in the… Read More

TRIPOLI/ANKARA (Reuters) – Forces loyal to eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar said they destroyed a Turkish drone parked at Tripoli’s only working airport on Sunday, halting temporarily civilian flights as tensions between Ankara and the eastern administration mounted. Haftar’s forces said they hit the drone in an air strike on Mitiga airport, part of a series of measures meant to… Read More