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Nigeria dispatches jets, troops to quash Benin coup bid

LAGOS: Nigerian fighter jets and ground troops moved on Monday to help restore order after a foiled coup attempt in Benin, aiming to head off a political crisis in a country that is battling gunmen and serves as a key...

Soldiers patrol in front of the headquarters of Benin's radio and television station, in Cotonou, Benin. — Reuters

Rent for $1 a month? Egypt says no

Even in some expensive areas of Cairo, rent control measures in place for decades have enabled some renters to pay very low prices. Reuters

6 killed as light plane crashes in Kenya

Debris is scattered on the ground at the scene where a Cessna plane operated by AMREF Flying Doctors crashed into buildings in the Githurai suburb of northeastern Nairobi. — Reuters

Ghana ministers die in helicopter crash

Ghana ministers die in helicopter crash

Rwanda to accept 250 migrants from US

Rwanda to accept 250 migrants from US

Fighters kill 15 farmers, children in northeast Nigeria

Nigerian soldiers from the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) drive around in pick-ups during training at the MNJTF military base, in Borno state, Nigeria. — AFP

At least 35 killed in church attack in northeast DR Congo

A soldier stands guard with a Kalashnikov rifle in front of the gathered crowd, in Goma. — AFP

Paramilitary shelling on camp kills 8 in Darfur

Mud covers the ground around tents at the Abu Al Naja camp for displaced Sudanese in the eastern Gedaref State. - AFP

Nairobi tense as police block protesters

Protesters gather to block a main road

MSF warns of violence atrocities in Sudan's Darfur

Displaced people ride a an animal-drawn cart, in North Darfur, Sudan. — Reuters

Heatwave leaves Moroccan cities sweltering in record-breaking tempertatures

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Rwanda, DR Congo sign peace deal in US

President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance meet DR Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner and Rwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington DC, on Friday. — Reuters

16 dead, businesses destroyed after Kenya protests

Residents look through a window to assess the damage in a commercial building that was vandalized and torched during deadly protests marking one year since the storming of parliament in anti-tax demonstrations in Nairobi. - AFP

Kenyans protest ahead of govt budget

A Kenyan protester returns a teargas

S Africa rescuers search for survivors of deadly floods

A man stumbles as he tries to cross a flooded road following severe weather, in Cape Town. — Reuters

Iran stresses the need of nuclear 'peaceful activities'

Egypt's FM Badr Abdelatty (C) meets with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi (L) and Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Cairo. — AFP
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