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Survivors in shock as Cyclone Freddy toll passes 300

BLANTYRE: The last thing Lukia Akimu remembers is the surge of floodwater that hit her village near Mount Soche earlier this week when Tropical Cyclone Freddy tore through southern Malawi.The next thing she knew, she...

Men work to rescue their relatives, or recover their bodies, who are victims of a landslide which occurred due to heavy rains resulting from cyclone Freddy in Blantyre. — AFP

Virus cases surge in Africa as third wave gains pace

A man receives vaccine against the coronavirus disease under the COVAX scheme, in Nairobi, Kenya. — Reuters file photo

Botswana unearths world's third largest diamond

A Botswana minister holds a gem diamond in Gaborone on Wednesday. — Reuters

Cambodia deploys new batch of rat recruits to sniff out landmines

Magawa, the recently retired mine detection rat, plays with its previous handler So Malen at the APOPO Visitor Centre in Siem Reap, Cambodia. - Reuters

Gunmen kill 53 villagers in northern Nigeria

A police officer confronts protesters during a Democracy Day protest at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos. - Reuters

Over 30,000 children risk death in famine-hit Tigray: UN

Fourteen-year-old Adan Muez in his bed at Adigrat General Hospital in the town of Adigrat, Tigray region, Ethiopia. - Reuters

Protests erupt in Sudan after subsidy cuts

Vehicles queue-up for fuel at a petrol station in al-Amarat district of Khartoum on Thursday. — AFP

Tribal fighting in South Darfur kills 36

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Blast kills 2 at southern Libya checkpoint

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Morocco's FM holds talks with senior Libyan officials

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About 100 killed in deadliest Burkina Faso attack

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Gun attack on Ugandan minister kills daughter, driver

The wife of Uganda's transport minister General Katumba Wamala (C) arrives at the crime scene where the minister was shot in his car in Kampala on Tuesday. — AFP

Second volcano erupts near DR Congo's battered Goma city

A child runs on the solidified lava flow of the Nyiragongo volcano in the northern neighbourhoods of Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu. - AFP

Thousands flee Goma over fears of new eruption

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Mali vice-president seizes power

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South Sudan aid doctor killed 'in cold blood'

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