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Sculls of victims of the Rwandan genocide are seen as part of a display at the Genocide Memorial in Gisozi in Kigali, Rwanda April 6, 2019.REUTERS/Baz Ratner
Africa

Alleged senior leader of 1994 Rwandan genocide confirmed dead

Protais Mpiranya was alleged to have been a senior leader of the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi population and was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in 2000

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Africa

Families desperately await news of Burkina miners trapped for 26 days

A farmer Boniface Mutize gestures during an interview with Reuters at his soya beans farm in Domboshava, a village in the province of Mashonaland East outside Harare, Zimbabwe, March 21,2022. Picture taken 21 March, 2022. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo
Africa

Ukraine war fuels food crisis in distant Africa

A truck exits the mine after collecting ore from 516 metres below the surface at the Chibuluma copper mine in the Zambian copperbelt region. REUTERS/Rogan Ward
Global Economy

Global scramble for metals thrusts Africa into mining spotlight

Special forces commander Mamady Doumbouya, who ousted President Alpha Conde, walks out after meeting the envoys from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to discuss ways to steer Guinea back toward a constitutional regime, in Conakry, Guinea September 10, 2021. REUTERS/Saliou Samb
Africa

Guinea's coup leader proposes 3-year transition back to civilian rule

A medical worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) takes a swab sample from a man, as South Africa starts to relax some aspects of a stringent nationwide coronavirus disease (Covid-19) lockdown in Diepsloot near Johannesburg, South Africa, May 8, 2020. Photo :Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

South Africa may be entering fifth Covid wave

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Africa

Africa faces new shock as war raises food and fuel costs

A man uses a donkey cart to transport animal fodder to drought affected areas in Higlo Kebele, Adadle woreda, Somali region of Ethiopia, in this undated handout photograph. Michael Tewelde/World Food Programme/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
USA

US to provide $200 million in humanitarian aid for Horn of Africa, State Department says

Ethiopian flag. Photo: Reuters.
Africa

Clashes in Ethiopia kill 20 Muslim worshippers - regional Islamic leader

Djeneba Belem a fried bean cakes seller, prepares to buy cooking oil made from palm oil at a shop in Abidjan, Ivory coast on 10 April 2022. REUTERS/Luc Gnago
World+Biz

How Africa is bearing the brunt of palm oil's perfect storm

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Africa

Explosion at Nigerian illegal oil refinery kills over 100

Thermometers are pictured at the entrance of an Ebola Treatment Centre in the Eastern Congolese town of Butembo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, October 4, 2019. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
Africa

New Ebola case confirmed in northwestern Congo, lab report says

Empty hospital beds are seen in the Ayder referral Hospital, as patients were sent home after food supplies ran out, in the city of Mekelle, Tigray region, Ethiopia, April 21, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer
World+Biz

Main hospital in Ethiopia's Tigray's region runs out of food