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Freetown, Oct 17 (AFP/APP): Twenty-seven civilians killed in August riots in Sierra Leone were buried Monday in the capital Freetown following a state-led ceremony, as families disputed police accounts of their deaths. Coffins were lowered into individual graves at the Bolima Cemetery in the Waterloo […]

Addis Ababa, Oct 17 (AFP/APP): Ethiopia’s government on Monday vowed to seize control of airports and other federal facilities in war-torn Tigray, a day after the African Union appealed for a ceasefire to the conflict. AU Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat called for an immediate […]

Nairobi, Oct 16 (AFP/APP): Authorities in Ethiopia’s rebel-held Tigray region announced Sunday they would respect a ceasefire after the African Union called for an immediate pause to the fighting and peace talks to end nearly two years of war. We are ready to abide by […]

Kampala, Oct 14 (AFP/APP):Ugandan authorities insist that an outbreak of Ebola that has killed 19 people across the country has not reached Kampala, despite a couple testing positive for the virus in the capital. The health ministry said Friday there have been 58 confirmed cases […]

Ouagadougou, Oct 14 (AFP/APP):Captain Ibrahim Traore, who led the latest coup in Burkina Faso, was on Friday named interim president until elections are held in July 2024, two members of the ruling junta told AFP. “Captain Traore has just been unanimously designated president of the […]

Moscow, Oct 14 (AFP/APP): An electric substation in the Russian city of Belgorod, near the border, was set on fire by a Ukrainian strike on Friday, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. “An electric substation… caught fire after a strike on Belgorod,” Gladkov said on Telegram, […]

Istanbul, Oct 14 (AFP/APP):Nearly 50 coalminers were trapped hundreds of metres below ground on Friday after an unexplained blast tore through a mine in northern Turkey. Television images showed hundreds of people — some with tears in their eyes — congregating around a damaged white […]

Toretsk, Ukraine, Oct 12 (AFP/APP): First there was a teasing crackle of small arms fire then a burst of sharp bangs as Ukrainian assault infantry fired their US-made grenade launder at the Russian positions opposite. The frontline in this part of the Donetsk region in […]

Paris, Oct 10 (AFP/APP):A French trial of Air France and Airbus began Monday on charges of involuntary manslaughter over the fatal 2009 crash of a jet heading to Paris from Brazil, killing all 228 people aboard. Victims’ families and some aviation experts say the pilots […]

United Nations, United States, Oct 10 (AFP/APP):The UN General Assembly meets Monday hours after Russia launched a deadly barrage of missile strikes at cities across Ukraine, as Western powers condemned Moscow’s latest attacks and sought to underscore its isolation. The United Nations called the urgent […]