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Africa's week in pictures: 22-28 September 2023
Posted on Thursday September 28, 2023

A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.

Haiti crisis: Can Kenyan police officers defeat the gangs?
Posted on Thursday September 28, 2023

The East African nation has pledged 1,000 officers but many question their suitability.

Afcon 2027 will be 'amazing' in East Africa, pledges Ugandan organiser
Posted on Thursday September 28, 2023

East Africa will meet the Confederation of African Football's rigorous requirements for Afcon 2027, Ugandan official Rogers Byamukama says.

Victor Osimhen: Napoli 'never meant to offend or mock' striker but stop short of apology for TikTok
Posted on Thursday September 28, 2023

Napoli say they "never meant to offend or mock" Victor Osimhen in a social media post but stop short of publicly apologising to him.

Burkina Faso junta says it foiled coup attempt
Posted on Thursday September 28, 2023

It is just less than a year since Capt Ibrahim Traoré seized power during the second coup of 2022.

'France takes us for idiots' - Inside coup-hit Niger
Posted on Tuesday September 26, 2023

The BBC gains access to the West African country which is among the world's most deadly for jihadist attacks.

Morocco earthquake: Sisters' nightmares and a plea for lipstick
Posted on Saturday September 23, 2023

Two sisters tell the BBC how the earthquake in Morocco has left them traumatised and anxious.

Africa's week in pictures: 15-21 September 2023
Posted on Friday September 22, 2023

A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.

Despite risks fish farms are booming in Africa
Posted on Thursday September 21, 2023

Farming fish has seen rapid growth in Africa but it can be an expensive, high-risk operation.

Guinean cycles across six countries for spot at Egypt's Al-Azhar University
Posted on Thursday September 21, 2023

The 25-year-old travelled for four months from Guinea to reach top university Al-Azhar in Egypt.

Quobna Cugoano: London church honours Ghanaian-born freed slave and abolitionist
Posted on Wednesday September 20, 2023

Quobna Cugoano was captured by slavers aged 13 but later played a big part in the UK abolition movement.

Inside South Africa's Operation Dudula: 'Why we hate foreigners'
Posted on Sunday September 17, 2023

BBC Africa Eye gains rare access to Operation Dudula, South Africa's prominent anti-migrant movement.

Libya floods: The bodies left unrecognisable by disaster
Posted on Sunday September 17, 2023

Doctors are struggling to identify the remains which have been found as the death toll rises.

Libya floods: A barren wasteland with a lingering smell of death
Posted on Saturday September 16, 2023

With lives in Libya washed away, anger mounts as people ask why they were told to stay at home.

South Africa Floods: Watch the aftermath of deadly floods in South Africa
Posted on Thursday September 28, 2023

At least 11 people killed after flooding in South Africa's Africa's Western Cape province, including Cape Town.

Kenya promises to end gang warfare and restore peace in Haiti
Posted on Wednesday September 27, 2023

The Kenyan government has offered 1000 police officers to lead a multinational force to Haiti to tackle the ongoing gang warfare.

MohBad: How the death of an Afrobeats star sparked protests in Nigeria
Posted on Tuesday September 26, 2023

The death of popular 27-year-old singer MohBad has sparked protests in Nigeria.

Westgate mall shooting: Why do Kenya's Muslims feel targeted?
Posted on Friday September 22, 2023

Ever since al-Shabab attacked the Westgate shopping mall, Kenya's Somali community has felt targeted by security forces.

Westgate attack: Kenyan survivors recount 10 years of pain
Posted on Thursday September 21, 2023

Ten years since the Westgate shopping mall attack remember the day when at least 67 people were killed.

Kenya mall attack: What happened at Westgate 10 years ago?
Posted on Wednesday September 20, 2023

In 2013, a group of al-Shabab militants attacked a shopping mall in Nairobi leaving 67 people dead.


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News24 | Burkina Faso detains four officers after supposed thwarted coup
Posted on Thursday September 28, 2023

Burkina Faso said on Thursday that four officers had been detained a day after the military government announced it had thwarted a coup attempt.

News24 | As coups spread and UN peacekeepers leave, the AU doles out money to plug some of the gaps
Posted on Thursday September 28, 2023

UN forces are being pushed out of several countries at risk, while the AU is still figuring out exactly how to fund its own peacekeeping initiatives.

News24 | Burkina Faso's year-old coup government says it thwarted a coup attempt
Posted on Thursday September 28, 2023

Burkina Faso's military junta said on Wednesday that a coup attempt had been stopped the previous day by security and intelligence services, without providing specifics on what had happened.

News24 | Eswatini gears up for 'democratic elections' this Friday... with no parties and an absolute monarch
Posted on Thursday September 28, 2023

Eswatini's people can vote for their preferred government, say its leaders, but not really.

News24 | Tanzania kills 5 million birds to save rice fields
Posted on Wednesday September 27, 2023

Tanzania has culled millions of quelea birds to prevent them from destroying rice fields, using drones and planes to monitor commercial farms, the country's plants and pesticides watchdog said Wednesday.

News24 | Namibia bans poultry imports from South Africa due to bird flu
Posted on Wednesday September 27, 2023

Namibia has suspended imports of live poultry, birds and poultry products from South Africa following the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the neighbouring country.

News24 | French ambassador to Niger leaves after weeks of tension, with military pullout scheduled
Posted on Wednesday September 27, 2023

France's ambassador to Niger left the capital Niamey early Wednesday, after weeks of tensions between Paris and the post-coup regime in the West African country who demanded his expulsion.

News24 | Coup general and citizens agree: African putsches are not just military power grabs
Posted on Wednesday September 27, 2023

There is perhaps no better person to explain the popularity of coups - now seemingly stretching down to Central Africa from the Sahel - than General Mamadi Doumbouya, the 43-year-old who has been the interim president of Guinea since 1 October 2021.

News24 | Nigeria's big unions call 'indefinite' strike over fuel prices and the cost of living
Posted on Tuesday September 26, 2023

Nigeria's major unions on Tuesday called for a national strike next week in protest at the government's response to tackling the rising cost of living.

News24 | Amid reports of repression, international election observers head to DRC ahead of December elections
Posted on Tuesday September 26, 2023

A five-person core team of experts from France, Mali, Spain and Switzerland is now in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as the advance party for The Carter Center's Election Observer Mission.

News24 | Let's lock up Mnangagwa and Chamisa for a while, proposes Zimbabwe's top peace negotiator
Posted on Tuesday September 26, 2023

A respected Zimbabwean religious leader has proposed incarcerating its president and his opposition rival in the name of peace.

News24 | France is pulling all its troops from Niger after coup: Macron
Posted on Monday September 25, 2023

President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday announced that France would withdraw its ambassador from Niger, followed by the French military contingent in the coming months, a move welcomed by Niger's military leaders as a "step towards sovereignty".

News24 | Africa's girls and women cycle away from poverty in game-changing Buffalo Bicycle
Posted on Monday September 25, 2023

A sturdy bicycle that can handle rough, punishing conditions and can carry heavy loads for long distances in Africa's rugged terrain in rural areas is changing the lives of girls and women.

News24 | Wooden structure unearthed in Zambia dates back nearly half a million years
Posted on Sunday September 24, 2023

A wooden structure unearthed in Zambia and dated at nearly half a million years is set to reshape our understanding of early hominids.

News24 | Suicide truck bomber kills 13 in central Somalia
Posted on Saturday September 23, 2023

Thirteen people were killed and 20 others wounded in central Somalia on Saturday after a suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives towards a security checkpoint in the town of Beledweyne, police said.

News24 | Border closures by Niger's military junta cut off critical aid to over 90 000 malnourished children
Posted on Saturday September 23, 2023

Border closures by the military junta in Niger have resulted in the blocking of much-needed aid for malnourished children under the age of five in crisis-hit regions, the World Food Programme has said.

News24 | Debris and dead bodies clutter flood-hit Libyan port of Derna nearly two weeks later
Posted on Friday September 22, 2023

Libya's devastating flood has transformed Derna from a busy port welcoming fishing boats and ships loaded with goods and passengers into a dump brimming with rubble, car wrecks and dead bodies.

News24 | Tired of a costly war, Sudan rivals say they want peace - each on their own terms
Posted on Friday September 22, 2023

The two warring factions in Sudan are tired of war and both want a ceasefire, but on their own terms, if their latest public speeches are to be taken at face value.

News24 | Exiled Central African Republic's former leader Francois Bozize sentenced to forced labour for life
Posted on Friday September 22, 2023

Exiled former Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, who now leads a rebel coalition, has been sentenced to forced labour for life for conspiracy, rebellion and murder in the chronically unstable nation.

News24 | Ghana police arrest 49 as high cost of living triggers street protest, attempt to storm Jubilee House
Posted on Friday September 22, 2023

In recent months, public discontent has been growing in Ghana over the rising cost of living for ordinary people.

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