Police recovered 22 more bodies from the ferry that sank on Lake Kariba, raising the toll to 68, according to an announcement on Saturday. Le Monde reports that no details were given about the new victims and that most of those on board were villagers.
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The Ebola outbreak in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is outpacing efforts to contain it, the WHO says. It is spreading faster than any previous outbreak of the virus.
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Moroccan police arrested more than 100 people who tried to enter the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on Saturday, 111 according to The Guardian and about 300 according to the FAZ, after a social media campaign called for another mass crossing. The larger surge did not happen, and the FAZ reports that officers apparently used tear gas.
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At least 20 people were killed in clashes between Kambari and Fulani communities in central Nigeria, The Hindu reported on Saturday. The report gave no further detail on where the fighting took place or what triggered it.
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President Hakainde Hichilema has taken an early lead in Zambia's presidential election, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The electoral commission had halted the tally a day earlier after attacks on polling staff and the theft of ballots.
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Congo's Ebola epidemic has reached a sixth province, Bas-Uele, after a man died there, Africa CDC said on Thursday. Government figures put the toll above 2,100 deaths in more than 4,500 cases.
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Sudan's Rapid Support Forces attacked the town of Umm Arda in North Kordofan on Friday, killing at least 14 civilians. The paramilitaries say they took the town; the army says it drove them back.
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Zambia's electoral commission has suspended the count in the presidential election after allegations of violence and fraud. President Hakainde Hichilema is seeking a second term.
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A funding shortfall could leave more than 650,000 refugees in South Sudan without UN food aid within weeks, the world body warned on Friday. According to Le Monde, the warning comes as the rainy season peaks, access becomes harder and food prices rise.
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A mosquito species that migrated from Asia is pushing malaria numbers up in Africa, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Friday. According to the newspaper, it thrives in cities of all places and is resistant to insecticides.
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Congo's Ebola epidemic has spread to Bas-Uele province after a traveller from Haut-Uele died there. The WHO says the outbreak is on course to become the deadliest on record.
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The Rapid Support Forces launched a coordinated drone attack on Wednesday against the capital and other army-held cities hundreds of kilometres apart, the second consecutive day of such strikes, Le Monde reported. The RSF separately said it had captured a key town near the Ethiopian and South Sudanese borders.
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A passenger ferry capsized on Lake Kariba on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, and at least 44 people died. Police said the vessel was carrying far more people than permitted and was hit by strong waves; dozens have been rescued and the search continues for an unknown number of missing people.
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Zambians went to the polls on Thursday, with President Hakainde Hichilema seeking a second term and the economy dominating voter concerns in the copper-dependent country, Al Jazeera reported. The Guardian writes that the campaign remained overshadowed by the feud between Hichilema and the family of his rival Edgar Lungu, who died in 2025.
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The Africa Finance Corporation is leading an investment in a $2.5 billion private placement for the Dangote refinery in Nigeria, Premium Times reported on Thursday. The AFC described the deal as a continuation of its long-term partnership with the Dangote Group and of its commitment to financing industrial projects across Africa.
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Nigeria's state oil company NNPC said on Thursday that the new incentive order establishes a transparent, predictable and globally competitive fiscal framework for qualifying greenfield deep offshore developments. Premium Times reports that the company expects the order to accelerate investment and production growth.
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Confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo have reached 4,449, with 2,061 deaths, government data showed on Tuesday. Health officials call it the fastest-spreading outbreak on record.
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Zimbabwe's police raised the death toll from Tuesday's ferry capsizing on Lake Kariba to at least 44 on Wednesday. Dozens remain unaccounted for as rough weather slows the search.
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Drones suspected to belong to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces hit three cities on Wednesday, residents said. Neither side in the war has commented.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan ended a two-day visit to Libya's rival governments on Wednesday, as a drone destroyed a power substation near Zawiya.
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President Bola Tinubu has approved a tax incentive framework for deep offshore oil and gas projects intended to attract up to $50 billion and accelerate stalled developments, Premium Times reported on Wednesday. The regulator NUPRC said the same day that crude output fell 4 per cent month-on-month in July while staying above Nigeria's OPEC quota for a third consecutive month.
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President Hakainde Hichilema, elected five years ago on a promise to protect civil liberties in the copper-rich country, faces accusations of trampling on them as Zambians go to the polls, the New York Times reports. Debt and copper earnings have dominated the campaign, and the outcome will shape how one of Africa's biggest copper producers deals with its creditors.
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More than 2,000 people have died in Congo's Ebola outbreak, government figures released on Tuesday show. It is the fastest-spreading outbreak the country has recorded.
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A local official said attackers killed 60 people during a cattle raid in South Sudan, The Hindu reported on Tuesday. The account has not been independently confirmed.
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Hundreds of thousands who fled Sudan's war are competing for food and water in eastern Chad. Aid agencies say conditions there have moved beyond breaking point.
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Explosive drones hit fuel tanks at Libya's Zawiya oil complex, a day after a car bomb killed the military intelligence chief of Khalifa Haftar's forces. Crews brought the fires under control on Tuesday.
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An overloaded ferry capsized on Zimbabwe's Lake Kariba, killing at least 15 people, while 74 were rescued. Figures for those still unaccounted for differ: Al Jazeera reported 27 missing on Wednesday, TASS 75 a day earlier.
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Al Jazeera reported on Tuesday that two pick-up trucks collided in the Egyptian province of Ismailia. Eighteen people were killed, most of them children working as agricultural labourers.
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Madagascar is being forced to divide and share mpox vaccine doses as its epidemic accelerates, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday. The island is facing its largest recorded outbreak of the virus formerly known as monkeypox.
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Zambians vote on Wednesday in an election in which debt restructuring, inflation and the distribution of copper revenues are the main issues, Al Jazeera reports. The vote tests whether the government's economic reforms retain public support amid economic hardship.
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Police said at least 14 suspected illegal miners were killed and eight injured when a mine dump collapsed in South Africa's North West province on Monday night. Search and rescue operations were under way, according to the South China Morning Post.
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The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo began in February, three months before it was officially declared, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Genetic sequencing pointed to a long chain of undetected transmission.
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Pope Leo XIV called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan after the army under Al Burhan vowed to continue the war, The National reported on Monday. A commentary in the same paper a day later said the outlook is bleak without a change of course.
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Attackers killed Libya's military intelligence chief Fowzi Mansouri with an explosive device near his home in Benghazi, the news portal Al Marsad reported. The report did not identify who was behind the attack.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo raised its Ebola death toll to 1,887 on Sunday, with 4,120 confirmed cases.
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Leo XIV urged the international community on Sunday to support efforts for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan and the opening of humanitarian corridors, in a conflict that Le Monde says has killed tens of thousands. Folha de S.Paulo reported on children born during the war who have never been registered.
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A central Chinese province is targeting 12 billion dollars in trade with Africa by 2028, focused on mining and modern agriculture, according to Global Times. Near Abuja, rice seeds supplied by a Chinese-backed company are transforming the fortunes of Nigerian farmers, the South China Morning Post reports.
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The Congolese government has released 15 detainees to a rebel alliance as a confidence-building step in the Doha-brokered process for the east of the country. Al Jazeera reports that it remains contested whether the framework can end fighting that has displaced millions.
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At least 13 people were killed and several others remain missing after an attack attributed to rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Telesur reported on Saturday. The outlet described the ADF as a militia linked to the Islamic State group.
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More than 178,000 African migrants have left South Africa in recent months, Daily Sabah reported on Saturday. According to the report, a government crackdown on undocumented migration and, in some cases, violent anti-immigrant attacks drove the departures.
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Chagossians expelled by Britain 60 years ago had expected to return this year, but the New York Times reports that their hopes are caught in a morass of geopolitics after the United States bombed Iran. The archipelago hosts the US military base on Diego Garcia.
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Congo's Ebola outbreak has reached 4,053 confirmed cases and 1,850 deaths, the country's worst on record. WHO vaccine experts on Friday recommended a full-scale human trial of the Ervebo vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain.
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The war in Sudan has left more than 8 million children out of school and affected nearly three-quarters of the country's schools, threatening an entire generation's future, the UN warned. A human rights alliance separately called for an investigation into alleged chemical weapons use in the conflict, The National reported.
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The European Commission has asked Meta and TikTok to strengthen monitoring and fact-checking after online reports of a supposed border opening preceded the rush of tens of thousands on Ceuta, the FAZ and Le Monde reported, citing digital commissioner Henna Virkkunen. TASS reports that Moroccan police were put on high alert and that the Spanish navy sent two additional frigates after posts circulated about a new mass crossing attempt.
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Africa CDC said on Thursday that confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo have passed 4,000 and that studies will check whether the Bundibugyo virus is mutating. Congolese teams are screening more than 300 passengers from a river boat intercepted near Kinshasa.
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Nigerian security forces rescued 308 people who had been abducted in separate attacks in Niger and Kwara states, Al Jazeera reported on Friday. The Guardian reported that the captives were held in the forests of Kainji Lake National Park and that the president hailed what officials called the largest single-day recovery of hostages in the country.
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The WHO says the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading faster than the response is being scaled up, with new cases doubling in some hotspots within a week. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said so on Wednesday after visiting Kinshasa.
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Nigerian authorities announced the rescue of 308 kidnapped citizens held in the forest of Kainji Lake National Park. Kidnapping for ransom by armed groups and bandits has become a major crisis in the country, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday.
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The WHO says the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 1,600 people. It told a briefing on Tuesday that the outbreak is still expanding beyond the capacity of the response.
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Drones hit a traditional court in the RSF-held North Darfur village of Garra al-Zawaya on Sunday, killing at least 35 people. The rights group Emergency Lawyers says Sudan's armed forces carried out the strike; the military has not commented.
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The Economist reported on Monday on how poor countries are dealing with cuts to American AIDS funding. Only a summary of the report is available, so the scale of the effect on treatment programmes cannot be detailed here.
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A drone strike on a traditional court in the North Darfur village of Garra al-Zawaya killed at least 35 people on Sunday. The rights group Emergency Lawyers blames Sudan's army.
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Gunmen killed 12 people and abducted women and children during a raid on a Nigerian village, Reuters reported on Sunday. In a separate attack the same morning, armed men entered St Joseph Catholic Church in Inoyi, Affa, in the Udi district of Enugu State and abducted three worshippers, witnesses told Premium Times.
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Eight people were killed and 66 injured in a bus collision in central Tanzania, the Global Times reported on Monday. The exact site and the cause of the crash are not given in the report.
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The WHO said on Saturday that the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, running since May, is still spreading and that current containment efforts are not enough. More than 3,500 infections have been confirmed.
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Clashes broke out near Sheraro in western Tigray, with the Ethiopian government and the TPLF blaming each other, Al Jazeera reported on Saturday. The fighting marks one of the most serious threats yet to the fragile 2022 Pretoria peace deal.
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Thousands of Tunisians took to the streets to denounce the government's inaction and its authoritarian drift while a heatwave put the country's electricity network under strain, Le Monde reported on Saturday. The FAZ reported the same day that the former chair of Tunisia's truth commission is to be jailed for life as a 'forger'.
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Congolese authorities reported 3,532 confirmed Ebola cases and 1,556 deaths on Friday, making the outbreak the second-largest ever recorded. The UN calls it the fastest-escalating Ebola crisis it has seen.
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More than 1,500 people have died of Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in just over two months, according to official figures reported on Thursday. That makes it the second-deadliest outbreak on record and the fastest-killing ever documented. Arsonists have attacked at least a dozen treatment facilities as misinformation spreads.
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The leader of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces told his fighters that 'Khartoum is our target' following a setback in the war, The National reported on Thursday. The remarks signal a renewed paramilitary push on the capital.
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The Sudanese armed forces captured four strategic towns on the highway linking Khartoum to El Obeid, the besieged capital of North Kordofan, on Sunday 26 July, their first significant advance after months of a frozen front line, Le Monde reports. RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo told his fighters to march on despite the setback, according to The National.
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Residents in Sudan say there is no hiding from drone attacks, in what Koha describes as terror from the sky. Refugees who fled the war are battling water shortages in camps across the border in Chad and see fading hopes of returning home, Al Jazeera reports.
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An explosive mpox outbreak has produced 3,000 recorded cases in Madagascar, the Telegraph reports. The epidemic has been linked to Clade 1b, the strain that emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Health workers at the Ebola treatment centre in Bunia and at other sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo stopped work on Saturday in protest at unpaid bonuses, according to Al Jazeera and Breitbart. The strike coincides with documented cases passing 3,000 and a rise in reported deaths.
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The Sudanese army says it has regained full control of the Al Sadarat highway linking Khartoum with El Obeid, according to Al Jazeera. The road would help the army block the Rapid Support Forces' push to take El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan.
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Uganda has launched emergency food relief in the Karamoja region after at least 19 people died of hunger following prolonged drought and crop failures, according to The Guardian and Politika. The reporting says 1.5 million people are facing malnutrition.
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At least 31 people were killed within a few days in attacks in Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Le Monde reports. The paper attributes the violence to the Allied Democratic Forces, a group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State and imposes taxes on residents under threat of death.
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Chad submitted formal notice of its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court to the UN secretary-general, with the exit taking effect in July 2027 and leaving investigations already under way unaffected, according to Le Monde and TASS. Le Monde reports that N'Djamena says it acted at the request of the United States, and that Chad's role in the war in Sudan is under scrutiny by the court's prosecutors.
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Government data released on Sunday put the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ebola outbreak at 3,200 confirmed infections and at least 1,405 deaths, with about 1,000 cases added in just ten days. The World Health Organization says the virus is now present in five provinces, nearly 90 percent of cases coming from north-eastern Ituri. The outbreak, declared on 15 May, is caused by the Bundibugyo strain, for which no approved vaccine or treatment exists.
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The African Development Bank's top climate expert has estimated that an approaching 'super' El Niño could cause $10 billion to $20 billion in damage across African economies and trigger mass migration from the hardest-hit areas. Heavily affected countries would lose an average of one to two per cent of GDP, on top of risks to food and water security, government finances and banking sectors. It is the first figure of its kind published by a major multilateral development bank in connection with El Niño.
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Al Jazeera reported that an alliance between separatist fighters and al-Qaeda-linked groups has shifted the balance of power in northern Mali. The analysis says the development has complicated efforts to end the war and pushed the conflict into a more dangerous phase.
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Sudan's army seized a town in Kordofan, according to The National. The advance eases pressure on the besieged city of Al Obeid.
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The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has grown to 2,973 confirmed cases and 1,309 deaths, according to government figures released on Saturday. The outbreak, caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain for which no licensed vaccine or treatment exists, has now reached 48 health zones, with active transmission continuing in 47 of them. Contact tracing remains far below the level health officials consider necessary to halt spread.
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The Joint Forces of Sudan, an alliance of the army and allied armed groups, said on Saturday they had retaken a strategic city and three further localities in North Kordofan in the centre of the country, according to Telesur. The claim is unconfirmed by independent sources; the UN has documented siege conditions and mass sexual violence in the state.
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UN Women said on 24 July 2026 that women and girls in the besieged Sudanese city of al-Obeid face drone attacks when they fetch water by day and harassment, rape and other sexual violence when they go out after dark. The agency described the North Kordofan capital as a place with no safe time of day for water collection. It comes weeks after the UN human rights chief warned of a humanitarian catastrophe in the city amid intensified fighting between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
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