Nawal El Saadawi, famous Egyptian feminist author, dies aged 89
El Saadawi was known as a defender of women's rights and fought strongly against the widespread practice of female genital...
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‘Practically genocide’: Doctors say rape used as tool of war in Ethiopia
Women are being gang-raped, drugged and held hostage, according to medical records and testimonies from survivors shared with CNN. In...
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli who urged citizens ‘to pray coronavirus away’ has died
"President John Magufuli died of a heart ailment that he has battled for over 10 years," Samia Suluhu Hassan said....
New video emerges of abducted college students in Nigeria
In the footage, which has been widely shared on Facebook, some of the students appeared visibly distressed. In one video,...
Tanzania’s Prime Minister dispels rumors about President Magufuli’s health after Covid-19 speculation
Kassim Majaliwa said he was surprised people were questioning the President's whereabouts, adding that the leader was "fine and continuing...
Equatorial Guinea explosion witness says dynamite blast devastation akin to aftermath of ‘an atomic bomb’
Nearly 100 people have been confirmed dead after the blasts at a military base in the Central African country over...
Equatorial Guinea explosions kill at least 31, injure hundreds more
More than 400 were injured and many missing under the rubble, the ministry had said after the huge blasts on...
Car bomb explodes in Somalia’s capital, killing at least 20 people
A car packed with explosives was detonated at the gates of Luul Yemeni restaurant near the port at around 8...
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls released days after kidnapping
The girls were abducted on Friday by armed men who raided their state-run school in Nigeria's northwest Zamfara State, the...
CNN EXCLUSIVE: Leader of Tigray’s forces accuses Ethiopian and Eritrean governments of genocide
In a rare and exclusive interview with CNN, President of the Tigray People's Liberation Front Debretsion Gebremichael called for an...
Massacre in the mountains: How an Ethiopian festival turned into a killing spree
The corpses, some dressed in white church robes drenched in blood, were scattered in arid fields, scrubby farmlands and a...
US calls for withdrawal of Eritrean forces in Ethiopia following investigation into massacre
His call came a day after investigations by CNN and Amnesty International into the massacre of civilians in two separate...
42 people including students abducted last week in Nigeria released
The released group included 27 students, teachers and family members, the state government said in a statement at the time...
Gunmen kill 36 in attacks on two northern Nigerian states
The series of attacks by armed bandits occurred over the past 48 hours with 18 people killed each in villages...
Seven dead in Nigerian military plane crash, says air force
"All 7 personnel on board died in the crash," Air Vice Marshal Ibikunle Daramola said on Twitter.He added that the...
At least 60 killed after passenger barge crashes on Congo river
Some 300 survivors had been found near the scene of the accident in Mai-Ndombe province in the west of the...
Ongoing siege following car explosion at hotel gate in Somalia’s capital
Police told CNN the country's former defense minister, Mohamed Nur Galal, is confirmed dead in the attack. Officials did not...
‘They were unjust to me,’ says teenager freed after blasphemy sentence quashed in Nigeria
Insults were exchanged in the heat of the moment, he admits, but Farouq, a teenager, thought nothing of the exchange...
18-month-old baby under house arrest with Bobi Wine ‘safely evacuated’
"I'm glad to inform the world that the baby was evacuated yesterday when my lawyers were very briefly allowed to...
Foreign fighters were meant to leave Libya this week. A huge trench being dug by Russian-backed mercenaries indicates they plan to stay
US officials are also concerned over the long-term goals of the Kremlin ally in the war-torn state. One intelligence official...
