Sunday, 05 May 2013 09:05
At least 39 people have died and 30 others injured in fighting between Christian and Muslim groups in central Nigeria's Taraba state, prompting a round-the-clock curfew, police have said.
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Sunday, 05 May 2013 08:48
![The attack site had been in lockdown in the past few days because of an "unspecified threat" [Reuters]](/images/stories/africa/somali-capital-02.jpg)
A powerful blast has struck the commercial and administrative district of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, sending a plume of black smoke into the sky and killing 11 people police say.
Saturday, 04 May 2013 06:13
![Gunmen controlled a number of ministry buildings in Tripoli after occupying them earlier this week [Reuters]](/images/stories/africa/north/libya/2/gunmen-controlled.jpg)
Hundreds of Libyan pro-democracy advocates have come under attack by supporters of a law to exclude Gaddafi-era officials from top government jobs, in the latest sign of the turmoil that threatens the country's first elected authorities.
Friday, 03 May 2013 08:05
More than 60 miners have been killed this week in Sudan's Darfur region when the gold mine they were working in collapsed, officials said.
Thursday, 02 May 2013 08:10
Security forces in Chad say they have foiled a coup against the government of President Idriss Deby that a group of rebels had prepared forseveral months.
Thursday, 02 May 2013 08:02
aif al-Islam, the son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has appeared briefly in court where a militia has held him since his capture in November 2011, a local council official has said.
Thursday, 02 May 2013 06:53
![Half of those who died from famine were children under five, according to the UN report [AFP]](/images/stories/africa/somalia-famine.jpg)
Almost 260,000 people, half of them young children, died of hunger during the last famine in Somalia, according to a UN report that admits the world body should have done more to prevent the tragedy.
Wednesday, 01 May 2013 08:27
New evidence obtained by media suggests the number of people killed during recent fighting in northern Nigeria may be much higher than officially reported.
Tuesday, 30 April 2013 08:43
A new video which shows South African President Jacob Zuma and officials of the governing African National Congress visiting a frail Nelson Mandela has stirred controversy.
Tuesday, 30 April 2013 08:36
Armed men in pick-up trucks have surrounded Libya's justice ministry to step up demands for former aides to deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi to be barred from senior government posts, an official says.
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