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Attackers killed a nurse responding to an Ebola alert in eastern Congo, the WHO says. Nigeria's first case was flown to Switzerland.

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Police in Nigeria's Taraba State say 58 people died in Friday's four-hour attack on the community of Binnari, up from the 10 first confirmed. No group has claimed responsibility.

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Rapid Support Forces drones struck five power stations in three army-controlled states, causing mass power cuts, according to the Guardian. Britain sanctioned at least 15 commanders from both sides with a travel ban and asset freeze over sexual violence during the siege of El Fasher.

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Algeria's president ordered army units to deploy to neighbouring Niger on Monday at the request of Niamey, to protect shared energy projects and economic interests, according to Reuters and Daily Sabah. It would be Algeria's first deployment abroad since 1973; the upper house of parliament approved it in an emergency session on Sunday, and the lower house was expected to meet on Monday.

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Congo vaccinated the first participant in a Bundibugyo Ebola trial on Friday. On Sunday, Uganda ordered a 21-day quarantine for citizens returning from Congo.

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Mali's army says 54 people died in an attack, The Hindu reported on Sunday. The available reporting gives no further details on the attack.

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At least 40 civilians were killed in southeastern Nigeria, human rights activists told Premium Times, according to TASS. Politika reports that the attackers arrived on motorcycles just after midday prayers and burned the village, while search and rescue operations continue.

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A rig operated by Borr Drilling sank off the coast of Gabon, and five personnel are missing, according to Reuters. Politika reports that 115 people were aboard and 110 were rescued.

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A bus crash on the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway killed at least 22 people according to The Hindu, and at least 24 according to Al Jazeera, which describes the dead as church mourners. It came weeks after another crash that killed 17, and the government has vowed a road safety crackdown.

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Algeria's parliament approved on Sunday the deployment of troops to protect oil facilities in Niger. According to Reuters it is the first foreign deployment since 1973, and Al Jazeera says the vote follows a recent defence pact between the two neighbours.

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Gunmen on motorcycles attacked Binnari village in Nigeria's Taraba State on Friday. Police counted 10 dead, while Amnesty International says the toll is 40.

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Kenya's Health Ministry announced a second Ebola death on Friday. In Congo, the first person received an experimental Bundibugyo vaccine.

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More than 2,000 people have fled ethnic clashes in southern Ethiopia across the border into Kenya, Daily Sabah reports. At least nine deaths have been reported as the violence continued.

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Rescue teams were searching for seven people feared trapped after a 16-storey building under construction collapsed on Friday in Nairobi, Daily Sabah reports. Serbian daily Politika describes it as an 18-storey building put up without a permit.

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Nigeria's Dangote refinery is listing on the stock exchange, with the offer ending on Tuesday and oversubscription anticipated, Le Monde reports. The Lagos mega-refinery is posting sharply higher profits amid rising fuel prices.

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Switzerland says Nigeria's first Ebola patient in over a decade never travelled to Congo and was probably infected in Uganda. Kenya reported a second death.

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An unfinished building with more than ten upper floors collapsed in Nairobi's Eastleigh district on Friday. Rescuers have made contact with some of those trapped.

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El Niño-driven drought is wrecking Sudan's harvest and raising famine risk on top of the civil war. A senior US official said after talks in Geneva that there is no military solution.

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A Tigray rebel commander pledged on Thursday to keep fighting after government-allied forces took Mekelle. On Friday an official of the federally backed administration urged fighters to lay down their arms.

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Nigeria confirmed its first Ebola case on Tuesday, the fourth African country hit this year by the Bundibugyo strain. WHO's Africa director says the outbreak is now more complex.

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A drone strike on Amiet market in the disputed Abyei region on Monday has killed at least 153 people, according to local authorities. They and South Sudan blame the Sudanese army.

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A drone strike on Amiet Market in the disputed Abyei region killed at least 153 people on Monday. South Sudan blames Sudan's army, which says it targeted fuel tankers.

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Nigeria has confirmed its first Ebola case, a woman who arrived from Uganda, bringing the outbreak to West Africa.

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Nigeria confirmed its first Ebola case on Tuesday, a woman who arrived from Uganda, and ordered maximum alert. Kenya reported a ninth case the same day.

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A drone strike on a market in the disputed Abyei area killed 53 people on Monday, local authorities say. South Sudan blames the Sudanese army and summoned Sudan's ambassador.

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Militants linked to Islamic State killed at least 48 civilians in eastern Mali, according to sources cited by Reuters on Tuesday.

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A court in Mombasa found self-styled pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie guilty on Monday of murdering 190 children and one adult, Breitbart reports. Le Monde says the verdict ended a first trial of 13 months and more than 120 witnesses, and that Mackenzie preached fasting to death in order to "meet Jesus".

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A double drone strike on a transport hub in al-Dibab killed about 80 people on Sunday. Rights groups count some 160 dead in drone attacks across Sudan since Friday.

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Congo's Health Ministry reports 4,561 Ebola deaths, a fatality rate of 48.2%. Kenya has detected eight cases.

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Human Rights Watch says soldiers, allied Russian fighters and separatists in Mali are committing grave violations of the laws of war. Reuters reports that Mali's forces and their Russian backers killed scores of civilians in drone strikes.

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A Kenyan court on Monday found Paul Mackenzie and about 30 others guilty of murder over the deaths of 190 children and one adult, according to Reuters and the Guardian (some headlines cite 191 children). Prosecutors say Mackenzie and his church set up a sect that ordered followers to starve themselves and their children.

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Congo said on Sunday that Ebola has spread to North Ubangi, its eighth province. Kenya confirmed an eighth case the same day.

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Sudan's army says it struck RSF command centres in South Darfur, while the RSF says a crowded livestock market was hit, according to Al Jazeera. The National reports that millions face displacement and aid funding shortages.

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Several thousand people marched through Tunis on Saturday despite repression by the government of Kaïs Saïed, Le Monde reports. Al Jazeera reports that joblessness, failing services and rising costs are deepening hardship across the country.

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Kenya confirmed four new Ebola cases on Saturday, three of them health workers, bringing its total to seven. Bloomberg reports that Africa CDC says over $700 million in Ebola funds is unaccounted for.

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Al Jazeera reports that Joseph Kabila has joined a rebellion in Congo, and FAZ says the former president leads a new rebel coalition aiming to overthrow the government in Kinshasa. Separately, Le Monde reports tensions between Congo and Belgium after searches linked to a Belgian money-laundering investigation, opened in 2025, into President Félix Tshisekedi's wife and eight other relatives.

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Thousands of people rallied in Tunis on Saturday in the biggest protest in years against President Kais Saied. Unions and opposition groups took part, citing poor living conditions and restrictions on political freedoms, and accuse him of undermining democracy.

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Sudan's army says it killed dozens of Rapid Support Forces fighters in an attack on Nyala. The RSF accuses the army of killing 30 civilians in the attack on the city's busy livestock market.

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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's office announced a federal interim administration for Tigray on Friday and promised elections within six months. The TPLF has not yet responded.

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A petrol tanker overturned and exploded at Oluku market in Benin City, southern Nigeria, and a fire engulfed the market, according to Al Jazeera. Premium Times reports that many are feared dead and that ten injured people were taken to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital.

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The UN has demanded an immediate end to drone attacks in Sudan as civilian deaths mount, The National reports. A separate report by the outlet describes a deadly air strike on goldminers as a sign of economic deprivation caused by the war.

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Mauritius has extended its police curfew amid what Politika calls the worst unrest in 27 years. Riots in several regions began after a police officer seriously wounded a young woman on Friday of last week, and Le Monde reports that a water shortage adds to the distress of young people.

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Kenya has confirmed a third Ebola case, a 65-year-old woman in quarantine with the Bundibugyo strain who is a close relative of the other two cases, with no signs of community transmission, according to Nairobi. Africa CDC says over $700 million in Ebola response funds is unaccounted for in Congo.

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Kenya confirmed a second Ebola case on Wednesday, a relative of its first patient. In Congo, where confirmed cases passed 9,000, the health workers' union called a nationwide strike.

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Fighters attacked a military base in Borno State in northeast Nigeria. Reuters reports 10 soldiers killed, while Premium Times, citing sources, puts the toll at 15 soldiers and five members of the Civilian Joint Task Force; separately, Premium Times reports that suspected bandits killed five farmers and abducted 18 people in Niger State.

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Ethiopian forces have expanded their control in Tigray, while a militia claims to have inflicted losses on Eritrean troops. Eritrea denies moving troops inside northern Ethiopia, and the United States calls for de-escalation.

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Ethiopia accuses Eritrea of a "total invasion" and claims self-defence, while Asmara denies involvement. The two countries have effectively suspended diplomatic relations.

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Kenya reported a second Ebola case on Wednesday, a 39-year-old relative of its first patient. Both cases trace to the outbreak in eastern Congo.

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Mauritius extended a curfew, Bloomberg reports, amid what it calls the worst unrest since 1999. Police said 84 people were arrested on Tuesday, and Le Monde reports the protests were triggered when a police officer shot and seriously wounded a woman on Friday.

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According to Al Jazeera, former DR Congo president Joseph Kabila has joined the M23 rebels, a move it says confirms the Kinshasa government's accusations of his ties to armed rebels. A UN envoy sees a "window of opportunity" for peace and praises progress in diplomacy, despite a worsening security and humanitarian situation.

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Congo's Ebola infections have surpassed 9,000, the government says, according to Reuters. Al Jazeera reports that the Bundibugyo strain is driving the deadliest Ebola outbreak in the country's history, while health workers face mistrust from communities.

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Former president Joseph Kabila will lead the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation, which absorbs the Rwanda-backed M23. The FT says it further complicates US peace efforts.

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Protests over a police shooting that wounded a woman have shaken Mauritius. Bloomberg calls it the worst unrest in the tourist destination since 1999.

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Ethiopian government troops have advanced to the border with Eritrea, pushing back Tigrayan rebels, unnamed sources said on Tuesday. Diplomats are trying to prevent a war between Addis Ababa and Asmara.

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Heavy rainfall flooded Tripoli, submerging cars and homes and trapping people inside buildings, according to Al Jazeera. Politika reports that water entered the corridors of the Central Hospital in the city centre.

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A boat carrying 305 migrants to Yemen capsized off Djibouti, killing at least 139 people, the IOM says. Another 84 are missing.

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A rights group says an air strike on a Sudanese gold mine near the Egyptian border killed at least 72 miners. Egypt has not commented.

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Ethiopian federal forces and an allied militia entered Adwa, about 40km from the Eritrean border, on Sunday, residents say. The TPLF had withdrawn a day earlier.

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Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila has been named head of a political-military movement that includes M23 rebels, Le Monde reports. He was designated in Goma and was sentenced to death in absentia in 2025.

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A Sudanese rights group says Egyptian jets killed at least 72 miners at a gold mine near the border on Saturday. Egypt has not commented, and the toll cannot be independently verified.

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At least 139 migrants, including 15 children, died when an overcrowded boat bound for Yemen sank off Djibouti, the UN migration agency said on Sunday. Another 84 people are missing.

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A rights group says a paramilitary drone strike near the Ethiopian border in Sudan killed 41 people, The Hindu reports. At the UN, Russia and China blocked a US push to extend the arms embargo to all of Sudan, covering both the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, according to the Jerusalem Post.

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Eritrea asked the UN Security Council on Saturday to condemn Ethiopia's "declaration of war". Ethiopian-allied forces say they retook Adigrat after an Eritrean incursion.

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Ebola has spread to another health zone in eastern DR Congo, the WHO says. Kenya has confirmed a fatal imported case.

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Police arrested 19 people over protests against irregular immigration in Durban that turned into riots on Thursday and Friday, according to Telesur. The city lies on South Africa's east coast.

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The WHO counts 8,728 confirmed Ebola cases and 4,205 deaths in DR Congo. Kenya is tightening border controls after its first death.

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Ethiopia told the UN Security Council that Eritrea has launched an "all-out invasion" of northern Ethiopia. Eritrea denies this and says Ethiopia is waging a war of aggression against it.

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A drone strike blamed on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) hit near a displacement camp at Wad al-Mahi in Blue Nile state, according to reports on Friday. Al Jazeera puts the death toll at about 30 civilians, including women and children, while Daily Sabah reports at least 31 dead and 19 wounded.

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South Africa's government has withdrawn a directive requiring refugee reception offices to process more asylum applications, Daily Sabah and Reuters report. The step follows protests against the policy that turned violent.

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Forces linked to Erik Prince suffered a battlefield loss in Congo, with a former UFC fighter among the wounded, Reuters reports citing sources. The New York Times says the injury of a former Green Beret and the death of an elite soldier from New Zealand have highlighted the Blackwater founder's growing role in the conflict.

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Ethiopian drones struck Eritrean troops that crossed into Tigray, according to conflict monitor Acled. Observers fear a direct war between the two neighbours.

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Several cars were torched and foreign-run businesses forced to shut in Johannesburg's Soweto and the coastal city of Durban, Al Jazeera reports, amid anger over an asylum ruling. The government blames disinformation for the unrest, according to Reuters.

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The African Union inaugurated its credit rating agency, AfCRA, on Wednesday in Mauritius. It is meant to offer an alternative to the three dominant Western firms, whose assessments African leaders accuse of overstating the region's risk.

Economy

Witnesses report Eritrean soldiers inside Ethiopia's Tigray region, and Bloomberg says Addis Ababa demands their withdrawal. Eritrea calls the accusation a pretext for war.

Geopolitics

Kenya confirmed its first Ebola death on Tuesday, a man who flew to Nairobi after falling ill in Congo. Authorities are tracing the passengers on his flight.

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African countries moved on Wednesday to launch AfCRA, the first credit rating agency of the African Union. It is meant to end the 'Africa premium' that policymakers say Moody's, S&P Global and Fitch Ratings have imposed.

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Libya's eastern-based parliament voted on Wednesday to replace longtime speaker Aguila Saleh with Al-Salhin Abdelnabi al-Obeidi. Saleh had held the post for 12 years, and Al Jazeera reports growing discontent.

Geopolitics

Kenya reported its first Ebola case on Tuesday: a man who returned from Congo and died in Nairobi. Authorities are tracing dozens of contacts.

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Tigrayan groups are forcibly recruiting boys as young as 15, witnesses say, as fighting spreads. An analyst warns of rising risk of war between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

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Malian troops backed by Russia's Africa Corps entered Kidal on Tuesday after Tuareg rebels pulled out. The rebels call the withdrawal temporary.

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Flooding hit Senegal's capital Dakar, and President Bassirou Diomaye Faye spoke of loss of life. According to a witness, a woman and her son died when their home flooded.

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An envoy of US President Donald Trump held a rare meeting with Sudan's army chief in Egypt in an attempt to end the war, according to the Jerusalem Post and The National. The army has been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, when the two fell out over issues including how to integrate their forces in a transition to civilian rule.

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Federal forces hold Mekelle, but airstrikes and artillery continue in the north. Ethiopia has cut ties with Eritrea, and Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia signal a new alliance.

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A Nigerian Air Force ATR-42 crashed in Ondo state on Monday with 32 people aboard. All are believed dead.

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The New York Times reports that residents of Mangala were left with little outside support, which it says helps explain how the Ebola outbreak became the worst seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The article examines how the epidemic grew so quickly.

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Federal troops and allied Tigrayan fighters took Mekelle over the weekend after the TPLF pulled out. On Sunday, Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan rejected unilateral Nile measures.

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France's foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot visited Bunia in Ituri on Saturday to pledge support against Ebola. Congolese authorities describe the outbreak as the deadliest in the country's history.

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An air strike in Sudan killed the driver of a UN aid truck, the World Food Programme said on Sunday. The UN agency says the trucks were clearly marked as humanitarian vehicles.

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Police recovered 22 more bodies from the ferry that sank on Lake Kariba, raising the toll to 68, according to an announcement on Saturday. Le Monde reports that no details were given about the new victims and that most of those on board were villagers.

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The Ebola outbreak in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is outpacing efforts to contain it, the WHO says. It is spreading faster than any previous outbreak of the virus.

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Moroccan police arrested more than 100 people who tried to enter the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on Saturday, 111 according to The Guardian and about 300 according to the FAZ, after a social media campaign called for another mass crossing. The larger surge did not happen, and the FAZ reports that officers apparently used tear gas.

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At least 20 people were killed in clashes between Kambari and Fulani communities in central Nigeria, The Hindu reported on Saturday. The report gave no further detail on where the fighting took place or what triggered it.

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President Hakainde Hichilema has taken an early lead in Zambia's presidential election, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The electoral commission had halted the tally a day earlier after attacks on polling staff and the theft of ballots.

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Congo's Ebola epidemic has reached a sixth province, Bas-Uele, after a man died there, Africa CDC said on Thursday. Government figures put the toll above 2,100 deaths in more than 4,500 cases.

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Sudan's Rapid Support Forces attacked the town of Umm Arda in North Kordofan on Friday, killing at least 14 civilians. The paramilitaries say they took the town; the army says it drove them back.

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Zambia's electoral commission has suspended the count in the presidential election after allegations of violence and fraud. President Hakainde Hichilema is seeking a second term.

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A funding shortfall could leave more than 650,000 refugees in South Sudan without UN food aid within weeks, the world body warned on Friday. According to Le Monde, the warning comes as the rainy season peaks, access becomes harder and food prices rise.

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A mosquito species that migrated from Asia is pushing malaria numbers up in Africa, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Friday. According to the newspaper, it thrives in cities of all places and is resistant to insecticides.

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Congo's Ebola epidemic has spread to Bas-Uele province after a traveller from Haut-Uele died there. The WHO says the outbreak is on course to become the deadliest on record.

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The Rapid Support Forces launched a coordinated drone attack on Wednesday against the capital and other army-held cities hundreds of kilometres apart, the second consecutive day of such strikes, Le Monde reported. The RSF separately said it had captured a key town near the Ethiopian and South Sudanese borders.

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A passenger ferry capsized on Lake Kariba on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, and at least 44 people died. Police said the vessel was carrying far more people than permitted and was hit by strong waves; dozens have been rescued and the search continues for an unknown number of missing people.

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Zambians went to the polls on Thursday, with President Hakainde Hichilema seeking a second term and the economy dominating voter concerns in the copper-dependent country, Al Jazeera reported. The Guardian writes that the campaign remained overshadowed by the feud between Hichilema and the family of his rival Edgar Lungu, who died in 2025.

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The Africa Finance Corporation is leading an investment in a $2.5 billion private placement for the Dangote refinery in Nigeria, Premium Times reported on Thursday. The AFC described the deal as a continuation of its long-term partnership with the Dangote Group and of its commitment to financing industrial projects across Africa.

Economy

Nigeria's state oil company NNPC said on Thursday that the new incentive order establishes a transparent, predictable and globally competitive fiscal framework for qualifying greenfield deep offshore developments. Premium Times reports that the company expects the order to accelerate investment and production growth.

Economy

Confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo have reached 4,449, with 2,061 deaths, government data showed on Tuesday. Health officials call it the fastest-spreading outbreak on record.

Geopolitics

Zimbabwe's police raised the death toll from Tuesday's ferry capsizing on Lake Kariba to at least 44 on Wednesday. Dozens remain unaccounted for as rough weather slows the search.

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Drones suspected to belong to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces hit three cities on Wednesday, residents said. Neither side in the war has commented.

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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan ended a two-day visit to Libya's rival governments on Wednesday, as a drone destroyed a power substation near Zawiya.

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President Bola Tinubu has approved a tax incentive framework for deep offshore oil and gas projects intended to attract up to $50 billion and accelerate stalled developments, Premium Times reported on Wednesday. The regulator NUPRC said the same day that crude output fell 4 per cent month-on-month in July while staying above Nigeria's OPEC quota for a third consecutive month.

Economy

President Hakainde Hichilema, elected five years ago on a promise to protect civil liberties in the copper-rich country, faces accusations of trampling on them as Zambians go to the polls, the New York Times reports. Debt and copper earnings have dominated the campaign, and the outcome will shape how one of Africa's biggest copper producers deals with its creditors.

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More than 2,000 people have died in Congo's Ebola outbreak, government figures released on Tuesday show. It is the fastest-spreading outbreak the country has recorded.

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A local official said attackers killed 60 people during a cattle raid in South Sudan, The Hindu reported on Tuesday. The account has not been independently confirmed.

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Hundreds of thousands who fled Sudan's war are competing for food and water in eastern Chad. Aid agencies say conditions there have moved beyond breaking point.

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Explosive drones hit fuel tanks at Libya's Zawiya oil complex, a day after a car bomb killed the military intelligence chief of Khalifa Haftar's forces. Crews brought the fires under control on Tuesday.

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An overloaded ferry capsized on Zimbabwe's Lake Kariba, killing at least 15 people, while 74 were rescued. Figures for those still unaccounted for differ: Al Jazeera reported 27 missing on Wednesday, TASS 75 a day earlier.

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Al Jazeera reported on Tuesday that two pick-up trucks collided in the Egyptian province of Ismailia. Eighteen people were killed, most of them children working as agricultural labourers.

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Madagascar is being forced to divide and share mpox vaccine doses as its epidemic accelerates, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday. The island is facing its largest recorded outbreak of the virus formerly known as monkeypox.

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Zambians vote on Wednesday in an election in which debt restructuring, inflation and the distribution of copper revenues are the main issues, Al Jazeera reports. The vote tests whether the government's economic reforms retain public support amid economic hardship.

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Police said at least 14 suspected illegal miners were killed and eight injured when a mine dump collapsed in South Africa's North West province on Monday night. Search and rescue operations were under way, according to the South China Morning Post.

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The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo began in February, three months before it was officially declared, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Genetic sequencing pointed to a long chain of undetected transmission.

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Pope Leo XIV called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan after the army under Al Burhan vowed to continue the war, The National reported on Monday. A commentary in the same paper a day later said the outlook is bleak without a change of course.

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Attackers killed Libya's military intelligence chief Fowzi Mansouri with an explosive device near his home in Benghazi, the news portal Al Marsad reported. The report did not identify who was behind the attack.

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The Democratic Republic of Congo raised its Ebola death toll to 1,887 on Sunday, with 4,120 confirmed cases.

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Leo XIV urged the international community on Sunday to support efforts for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan and the opening of humanitarian corridors, in a conflict that Le Monde says has killed tens of thousands. Folha de S.Paulo reported on children born during the war who have never been registered.

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A central Chinese province is targeting 12 billion dollars in trade with Africa by 2028, focused on mining and modern agriculture, according to Global Times. Near Abuja, rice seeds supplied by a Chinese-backed company are transforming the fortunes of Nigerian farmers, the South China Morning Post reports.

Economy

The Congolese government has released 15 detainees to a rebel alliance as a confidence-building step in the Doha-brokered process for the east of the country. Al Jazeera reports that it remains contested whether the framework can end fighting that has displaced millions.

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At least 13 people were killed and several others remain missing after an attack attributed to rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Telesur reported on Saturday. The outlet described the ADF as a militia linked to the Islamic State group.

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More than 178,000 African migrants have left South Africa in recent months, Daily Sabah reported on Saturday. According to the report, a government crackdown on undocumented migration and, in some cases, violent anti-immigrant attacks drove the departures.

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Chagossians expelled by Britain 60 years ago had expected to return this year, but the New York Times reports that their hopes are caught in a morass of geopolitics after the United States bombed Iran. The archipelago hosts the US military base on Diego Garcia.

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Congo's Ebola outbreak has reached 4,053 confirmed cases and 1,850 deaths, the country's worst on record. WHO vaccine experts on Friday recommended a full-scale human trial of the Ervebo vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain.

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The war in Sudan has left more than 8 million children out of school and affected nearly three-quarters of the country's schools, threatening an entire generation's future, the UN warned. A human rights alliance separately called for an investigation into alleged chemical weapons use in the conflict, The National reported.

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The European Commission has asked Meta and TikTok to strengthen monitoring and fact-checking after online reports of a supposed border opening preceded the rush of tens of thousands on Ceuta, the FAZ and Le Monde reported, citing digital commissioner Henna Virkkunen. TASS reports that Moroccan police were put on high alert and that the Spanish navy sent two additional frigates after posts circulated about a new mass crossing attempt.

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Africa CDC said on Thursday that confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo have passed 4,000 and that studies will check whether the Bundibugyo virus is mutating. Congolese teams are screening more than 300 passengers from a river boat intercepted near Kinshasa.

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Nigerian security forces rescued 308 people who had been abducted in separate attacks in Niger and Kwara states, Al Jazeera reported on Friday. The Guardian reported that the captives were held in the forests of Kainji Lake National Park and that the president hailed what officials called the largest single-day recovery of hostages in the country.

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The WHO says the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading faster than the response is being scaled up, with new cases doubling in some hotspots within a week. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said so on Wednesday after visiting Kinshasa.

Geopolitics

Nigerian authorities announced the rescue of 308 kidnapped citizens held in the forest of Kainji Lake National Park. Kidnapping for ransom by armed groups and bandits has become a major crisis in the country, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday.

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The WHO says the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 1,600 people. It told a briefing on Tuesday that the outbreak is still expanding beyond the capacity of the response.

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Drones hit a traditional court in the RSF-held North Darfur village of Garra al-Zawaya on Sunday, killing at least 35 people. The rights group Emergency Lawyers says Sudan's armed forces carried out the strike; the military has not commented.

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The Economist reported on Monday on how poor countries are dealing with cuts to American AIDS funding. Only a summary of the report is available, so the scale of the effect on treatment programmes cannot be detailed here.

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A drone strike on a traditional court in the North Darfur village of Garra al-Zawaya killed at least 35 people on Sunday. The rights group Emergency Lawyers blames Sudan's army.

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Gunmen killed 12 people and abducted women and children during a raid on a Nigerian village, Reuters reported on Sunday. In a separate attack the same morning, armed men entered St Joseph Catholic Church in Inoyi, Affa, in the Udi district of Enugu State and abducted three worshippers, witnesses told Premium Times.

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Eight people were killed and 66 injured in a bus collision in central Tanzania, the Global Times reported on Monday. The exact site and the cause of the crash are not given in the report.

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The WHO said on Saturday that the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, running since May, is still spreading and that current containment efforts are not enough. More than 3,500 infections have been confirmed.

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Clashes broke out near Sheraro in western Tigray, with the Ethiopian government and the TPLF blaming each other, Al Jazeera reported on Saturday. The fighting marks one of the most serious threats yet to the fragile 2022 Pretoria peace deal.

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Thousands of Tunisians took to the streets to denounce the government's inaction and its authoritarian drift while a heatwave put the country's electricity network under strain, Le Monde reported on Saturday. The FAZ reported the same day that the former chair of Tunisia's truth commission is to be jailed for life as a 'forger'.

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Congolese authorities reported 3,532 confirmed Ebola cases and 1,556 deaths on Friday, making the outbreak the second-largest ever recorded. The UN calls it the fastest-escalating Ebola crisis it has seen.

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More than 1,500 people have died of Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in just over two months, according to official figures reported on Thursday. That makes it the second-deadliest outbreak on record and the fastest-killing ever documented. Arsonists have attacked at least a dozen treatment facilities as misinformation spreads.

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The leader of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces told his fighters that 'Khartoum is our target' following a setback in the war, The National reported on Thursday. The remarks signal a renewed paramilitary push on the capital.

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The Sudanese armed forces captured four strategic towns on the highway linking Khartoum to El Obeid, the besieged capital of North Kordofan, on Sunday 26 July, their first significant advance after months of a frozen front line, Le Monde reports. RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo told his fighters to march on despite the setback, according to The National.

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Residents in Sudan say there is no hiding from drone attacks, in what Koha describes as terror from the sky. Refugees who fled the war are battling water shortages in camps across the border in Chad and see fading hopes of returning home, Al Jazeera reports.

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