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  1. Burkina Faso attackers identified as mostly young people

    Burkina Faso says children aged 12 to 14 were involved in an armed attack on a village

  2. Child soldiers carried out Burkina Faso massacre, says government

    More than 100 people were killed in the raid on a village in northeast Burkina Faso

  3. Congolese musician Tresor raises funds to help volcano victims

    Tresor Riziki has joined with UNHCR to help people left homeless by Mount Nyiragongo

  4. Ethiopia army: Combatants not civilians targeted in airstrike

    Ethiopia has denied that civilians were targeted or killed in Tuesday’s airstrike

  5. Ethiopia army denies targeting civilians in airstrike

    Dozens of people were reportedly killed or injured when the Tigray town of Togoga was hit

  6. Economic woes ahead of Zambia’s election

    Zambians go to the polls in August, with the economy a concern for voters

  7. Conflict stakeholders discuss Libya’s fate

    Delegates from the US, Russia, Turkey and France are present in Berlin

  8. Tigray: ‘Dozens killed’ in market air strike

    The air strike hit a market in the town of Togoga

  9. Tanzania scheme gives pregnant girls educational opportunity

    The scheme allows pregnant girls and young mothers to continue their studies

  10. Vote counting underway following Ethiopian elections

    Votes are being counted in Ethiopia’s parliamentary elections

  11. African countries face third Covid-19 wave

    The World Health Organisation has warned of a third Covid-19 wave on the continent

  12. Polls close in Ethiopia's elections

    The twice-delayed poll is PM Abiy Ahmed's first electoral test since coming to power

  13. Ethiopians vote in twice-delayed elections

    The Ethiopia election board extends voting hours after long queues in some areas

  14. Ethiopia votes in first electoral test for PM Abiy Ahmed

    The twice-delayed poll is PM Abiy Ahmed's first electoral test since coming to power

  15. Ethiopia holds election against backdrop of ethnic violence

    A special report from Ataye, which has been the scene of inter-ethnic fighting

  16. Cameroon: Plantation workers jailed for insulting President Biya

    Three workers have been imprisoned for a year for insulting the president

  17. Liberian rebel leader Kosiah convicted of war crimes

    Alieu Kosiah has been sentenced to 20 years by a Swiss court

  18. Laurent Gbagbo returns to Ivory Coast

    Crowds of his supporters turned out at the airport to welcome him

  19. Tributes pour in for Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda

    The country’s first president passed away at the age of 97

  20. Zambia’s first president Kenneth Kaunda dies

    KK led Zambia after independence from Britain in 1964 until 1991

  21. Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo returning home

    Where does his return leave the reconciliation process?

  22. Uganda fights fresh Covid-19 wave

    Daily case figures are the highest since the pandemic began

  23. Ethiopia’s last day of election campaigning

    Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s first general election whilst in office takes place on Monday

  24. ICC Chief Prosecutor reflects on her last day in office

    Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda looks back at her nine years at the helm of the ICC

  25. WHO reports on 'tsunami of e-waste'

    Disposed electronic devices expose children and women to harmful chemicals

  26. Somali military training base targeted by bomber

    A suicide bomber targeted a queue of new recruits waiting outside the base.

  27. The youngest African woman to climb Mount Everest

    Rawan Dakik is the first Tanzanian woman to scale the world’s highest peak

  28. Zambia: Political violence ahead of August’s elections

    There are concerns of rising political violence ahead of Zambia’s upcoming elections.

  29. Uganda’s Health Secretary on rising Covid-19 cases

    Dr Diana Atwine speaks to Focus on Africa on Uganda’s rising Covid cases

  30. UK cut foreign aid at the worst time possible

    The UK is criticised for cutting its overseas aid budget during a global pandemic

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