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At least 19 people were killed when rebels attacked a town in Congo’s North Kivu province, the army said. The rebels shelled the town of Mweso, where they “indiscriminately dropped mortar bombs,” which also injured 27 other civilians,…

Six people including a senior local administrator were killed in an ambush by armed men in the Abyei region claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, local officials said. The oil-rich region experiences frequent bouts of violence, where…

Flash floods have killed at least twenty-one people in Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal province, South African officials said. “As of Friday, 29 December 2023, a total of 21 bodies have been recovered,” said police spokesperson Colonel Robert…

Floods caused by torrential rainfall have killed at least 31 people in various parts of Somalia, according to the Somali government. Residents in Beledweyne, in central Somalia, could be seen wading through floodwaters. Local resident…

The eastern Libyan city of Derna on Wednesday counted its dead in the thousands, and feared a very heavy toll, after two dams broke under the pressure of torrential rains, releasing powerful floodwaters that swept away everything in their…

Hundreds of people are feared dead in eastern Libya after heavy flooding caused by Storm Daniel swept away entire neighbourhoods and wrecked homes in multiple coastal towns, with the city of Derna “cut off completely” following the bursting…

Air strikes on an open market south of Sudan's capital, Khartoum, killed at least 46 people, activists and a medical group said. Over 50 others were wounded in the attack in Khartoum’s May neighbourhood, where paramilitary forces…

Sixteen men and two women suspected of being part of a gang that robbed armoured vans were killed in a shootout with South African police in a rural northern region. Officers approached a building where the gang was operating, and the…

At least 16 people have been killed in clashes between ethnic Hausa and Nuba groups, report said, prompting the governor to declare a curfew in White Nile state, which borders South Sudan. The state, which stretches from Khartoum to the…

Around 40 soldiers and 100 civilians have been killed in a "war" in northern Togo, President Faure Gnassingbe has said, in a ground-breaking interview. West African nation, along with neighbouring Benin, Ghana and Ivory Coast, is…