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Death toll in Madagascar cyclone rises to 38, 12,000 displaced

ANTANANARIVO: A cyclone packing violent winds has killed at least 38 people and caused devastation in Madagascar's second-largest city, prompting the country's leader to call for "international solidarity", the...

A general view shows damage after Cyclone Gezani tore through the port city of Toamasina, Madagascar. - Reuters

Powerful cyclone kills 20 in Madagascar

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Drone strikes WFP warehouse in Sudan

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Heavy gunfire in Guinea's capital

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Spain, Portugal brace for storm after flood deaths

Emergency personnel get ready to carry out a total evacuation of the town of Grazalema. — AFP

'At least 200' feared dead in DR Congo landslide

A landslide collapsed several mines at a major coltan mining site in DRC killing at least 200.

Fans bid farewell to Japan's only pandas

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Uganda detains 2,000 opposition supporters, kills 30

Muhoozi Kainerugaba of the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF), the son of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni. — Reuters File

Uganda to shut down Internet ahead of election

Mototaxi drivers supporting Uganda's incumbent president and National Resistance Movement (NRM) presidential candidate Yoweri Museveni chant slogans and wave flags as they head to the rally grounds ahead of the party closing campaign rally ahead of the 2026 Ugandan general elections, in Kampala on January 13, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

UN visit to El Fasher finds traumatised civilians

Displaced Sudanese react after spending a night in Gedaref city eastern Sudan on December 26, 2025 after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took control of the Heglig area in western Sudan. Since its outbreak in April 2023, the war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced nearly 12 million. At the end of October, the paramilitary group seized control El-Fasher, the conclusion of a bitter 18-month siege for the strategic hub in western Sudan's Darfur region and marked by reports of mass killings and sexual violence. (Photo by AFP)

Over 1,000 killed in April attack on Sudan refugee camp: UN

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Sudan most neglected crisis of 2025 in aid: Poll

A Sudanese displaced woman carries a water container at a camp, North Darfur. — Reuters

Cambodia accuses Thailand of using 'toxic gas'

Cambodian soldiers transferred from a frontline lie in hospital beds at Ou Chrov referral hospital. — Reuters

Sudan's general ready to talk to Trump for peace

The authorities of the capital, Khartoum, are deploying thousands of soldiers to support the Sudanese army. — AFP

M23 group to pull out of key DR Congo city

A patrol car of the M23 group patrols in Uvira. — AFP

Flash flood kills dozens in Morocco town

Moroccans looks at a destroyed vehicle and other debris following a flash flood, in the coastal town of Safi, some 300 kilometres (186 miles) south of the capital Rabat on December 15, 2025. A flash flood and a muddy torrent in the Moroccan coastal town killed at least 37, local officials said December 15, as search and rescue operations continued. Drought-hit Morocco often faces severe weather, but the flooding in Safi is already the deadliest such disaster in at least a decade.
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