Congolese authorities have launched investigations into two recent deadly boat accidents, including the capsizing of an overcrowded boat on Lake Kivu on Thursday which killed at least 78 people. “These investigations will aim to clarify the circumstances of these unfortunate events and estab
At least 60 people were killed after a boat carrying mostly women and children returning from a religious festival in Nigeria's northern Niger state capsized this week, a local official said. About 160 people have now been rescued after the wooden boat ferrying nearly 300 passengers sank on Tuesda
At least six people were killed and 10 injured on Saturday by bomb explosions in Somalia's capital Mogadishu and a town in the country's Middle Shabelle region, police and witnesses said. It was not immediately clear who had carried out the attacks, although the Islamist militant group al Shabaab
US President Joe Biden will announce on Tuesday the donation of 1 million mpox vaccine doses and at least $500 million to African countries to support their response to the outbreak, according to a senior administration official. Biden will make the announcement in New York, where he is attending
Slumped on the ground over a mound of dirt, Divine Wisoba pulled weeds from her daughter’s grave. The 1-month-old died from mpox in eastern Congo in August, but Wisoba, 21, was too traumatized to attend the funeral. In her first visit to the cemetery, she wept into her shirt for the child sh
At least 64 people were feared dead following a boat accident on a river in Zamfara State in northwest Nigeria, local officials said on Saturday. A wooden boat carrying 70 farmers capsized as it was transporting them across the river to reach their farmlands close to Gummi town on Saturday morning
A fuel truck exploded on a road in Haiti's southern peninsula on Saturday, killing at least 25 people, according to local media, and leaving dozens of survivors with serious burns. Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille visited the site, near the coastal city of Miragoane in the department of Nippes,
At least 48 people were killed on Sunday in a fuel tanker truck explosion following a collision with another vehicle in north-central Nigeria, the state's disaster management agency said. The State Emergency Management Agency in north-central Niger state said the fuel truck collided with a truck c
Both sides in Sudan's civil war have committed abuses on a large scale which may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity, a UN-mandated mission said on Friday, recommending an arms embargo and a peacekeeping force to protect civilians. The 19-page report by a UN Fact-Finding Mission, based
A fire at a primary boarding school in central Kenya has killed 17 students, a police spokeswoman said on Friday. President William Ruto said he had asked authorities to investigate and hold those responsible to account. More rescuers were on their way to the Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri,
Democratic Republic of Congo expects to receive its first delivery of mpox vaccine doses on Thursday and a second delivery on Saturday, the head of the central African country’s mpox outbreak response said on Wednesday. Congo is the epicentre of an mpox outbreak that the World Health Organiz
Democratic Republic of Congo's government said at least 129 people were killed while trying to escape from the central Makala prison in the capital Kinshasa late on Sunday, adding that the situation was now under control. In a statement posted on X early on Tuesday, Interior Minister Shabani Lukoo
Germany’s far-right AfD party, hoping to clinch its first wins in two east German state elections on Sept. 1, is trying to pick up countryside votes by making opposition to renewable energy projects a centrepiece of its campaign. It proposes tougher new planning rules on constructing turbine
