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Friday 05 March 2021 : Supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko continue their protests against his arrest and detention on rape charges. Plus the...
Thursday 04 March 2021 : Authorities impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Nigeria’s Zamfara state, after a reunion ceremony for the kidnapped girls and their parents...
Wednesday 03 March 2021 : Sixty nuns and 25 priests have died in Tanzania in the last two months after showing symptoms of coronavirus, the Catholic Church in the...
Tuesday 02 March 2021 : Nearly 300 girls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in Nigeria’s north-western Zamfara state a few days ago, have been...
Friday 26 February 2021 : More than 300 Nigerian schoolgirls have been abducted in a night-time attack in Zamfara state, in the latest mass abduction targeting...
Thursday 25 February 2021 : Tanzania’s Professor Hulda Swai wins the latest African Union Kwame Nkrumah Continental Award for Scientific Excellence. Survivors of...
Wednesday 24 February 2021 : Militants have killed at least 10 people in Nigeria's northern city Maiduguri in Borno state, by using rocket-propelled grenades, which...
Tuesday 23 February 2021 : Rates of COVID-19 infection could be much higher in Nigeria than official figures have previously suggested. That's according to a new...
Friday 19 February 2021 : There has been heavy gunfire in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, as opposition leaders defied a ban on public gatherings to protest about...
Thursday 18 February 2021 : Zanzibar’s prominent opposition leader and vice-president Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad has been buried on the island of Pemba after passing...
Wednesday 17 February 2021 : Armed bandits have killed a school pupil and abducted 27 other children in a night-time raid on their boarding school in north-central...
Tuesday 16 February 2021 : The former head of the Central African Republic (CAR) football federation, Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, together with Alfred Yekatom, are...
Friday 12 February 2021 : Nigeria’s Ogale and Bille communities near the Niger Delta are given the green light by the UK Supreme Court to sue oil giant Shell for...
Thursday 11 February 2021 : Tanzania’s chief government spokesperson has given a rare interview to the BBC, asserting that Covid-19 is under control in the country....
Wednesday 10 February 2021 : There is continued insecurity in northern Nigeria as armed gangs kill as least 23 people in a series of attacks in Kaduna state. The...
Tuesday 09 February 2021 : Ethiopian government announces the closure of two camps housing hundreds of thousands of Eritrean refugees. Our correspondent Kalkidan...
Friday 05 February 2021 : The new transitional prime minister and three-member presidency council will govern Libya until the December election. Plus could it be the...
Thursday 04 February 2021 : The International Criminal Court has found former LRA commander Dominic Ongwen guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Sierra...
Wednesday 03 February 2021 : Angola faces widespread condemnation after more than 10 people are reported to have died after police clashed with protesters in the town...
Wednesday 03 February 2021 : [Due to a production error on the previous version of this edition of Africa Today, we are re-publishing this as a correction. This edition...
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