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Bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. An 8-year-old is only…
Authorities say a bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and…
Kenya starts to hand over to relatives the bodies of 429 members of a doomsday…
Kenya's government has begun handing over to relatives the bodies of 429 members of a doomsday cult at the center…
Malawi follows Zambia in declaring drought disaster as El Niño brings hunger to…
The southern African nation of Malawi has declared a state of disaster over drought in 23 of its 28 districts. The…
Taps have run dry across South Africa’s largest city in an unprecedented…
Thousands of South Africans are lining up for water as the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an…
South Sudan shutters all schools as it prepares for an extreme heat wave
South Sudan is shutting all its schools and warning of an extreme heat wave that's expected to last two weeks. The…
Nigerian leader rules out ransoms for abducted students as observers urge dialogue
Nigeria’s president has urged security agencies not to pay ransoms to rescue nearly 300 schoolchildren abducted…
Gunmen kidnap 15 children in yet another school abduction in northern Nigeria
Police in Nigeria say armed men have broken into a school in northwestern Nigeria and abducted 15 children. The…
UN raises alert for 780,000 people displaced in Mozambique, most due to violence…
The United Nations’ refugee chief has raised a new alert over 780,000 displaced people in Mozambique. The vast…
Violence and rights abuses threaten South Sudan’s stability, a UN report…
A U.N. commission has warned that mass violence and gross human rights violations in South Sudan continue unabated…