52 others suffered severe burns in the latest tanker explosion in Africa’s largest economy, amid rising fuel cost.
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A memorial being unveiled in Cape Town this week recognises the deaths of 1,772 predominantly Black non-combatants.
The UN says the forced displacement is one of ‘the most alarming’ humanitarian crises in the world.
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Many are still haunted by the aborted legacy of DR Congo’s first prime minister, who was murdered on January 17, 1961.
Rights groups say police used starvation as a weapon to force out illegal miners, resulting in close to 80 deaths.
Daniel Chapo was sworn in as the president of Mozambique in a low-key ceremony in the nation’s capital.
After seven-week hijack, Puntland locals say they are victims of foreign trawlers. But China calls the attack ‘vicious’.
Security was tight around ceremony as opposition says more than 300 killed in protests claiming election fraud.
Al Jazeera’s Hatu Mutasa reports from Stilfontein, South Africa, as rescue workers bring trapped miners to the surface.
Marburg virus can spread between people through direct contact or via blood and other bodily fluids of infected people.
Hundreds more survivors and dozens more bodies still underground, according to a miners rights group.
The move escalates the case against Kizza Besigye as a treachery conviction is punishable by the death penalty.
Not standing in solidarity with Gaza because of the need to make African conflicts visible is the wrong approach.
Video filmed by South African miners involved in a months-long standoff with police shows dire conditions underground.
