Cape Town – From a massive explosion at a petrol station in Freetown, Sierra Leone killing dozens of people; to Africa pinning its hope on a major breakthrough on malaria vaccine… Read these and other stories making the headlines from around the African continent.
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Italy’s ENI to start pumping gas in Mozambique from 2022
Italian energy giant ENI will start producing liquefied natural gas off the coast of northern Mozambique in the first half of next year, the government said on Friday. Read more…
Ethiopia PM urges ‘sacrifices’ to save country
Ethiopia must be ready to make “sacrifices” to “salvage” the country, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Saturday, as fighting in the north intensifies between government forces and Tigrayan rebels who threaten to advance on the capital. Read more…
UN agency evacuates 172 Nigeriens from troubled Libya
The UN Refugee Agency said on Friday it had evacuated 172 Nigerien asylum-seekers from Libya, in the first repatriation flight to Niger from that country for more than a year. Read more…
US urges Americans to leave Ethiopia urgently as rebels join forces
The US embassy in Addis Ababa on Friday urged Americans to leave Ethiopia “as soon as possible” over fears of a rebel advance on the capital, as nine groups battling the government joined forces. Read more…
At least 80 dead in Sierra Leone fuel explosion, says Red Cross
A massive explosion at a petrol station in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, killed at least 80 people, burning people in cars and streets nearby, a rescue worker and nurse said on Saturday. Read more…
Uganda charges three with terrorism over foiled funeral attack
A Ugandan court on Friday charged three men with terrorism over a foiled bomb attack on the funeral of an army commander who led a major offensive against al-Shabaab militants in Somalia. Read more…
Abducted university workers freed in Nigeria, police say
Nigerian security forces on Friday rescued six people who had been seized at a university near the capital’s international airport, police said. Read more…
Africa pins hopes on ‘breakthrough’ malaria vaccine
A ground-breaking vaccine against malaria has stoked hopes in Africa of rolling back a disease that claims hundreds of thousands of lives a year, many of them youngsters. Read more…
Fans return for classic Cairo football rivalry
For the first time in years fans returned to Cairo’s International Stadium on Friday for a classic local football clash between two of Africa’s greatest rivals, Al Ahly and Zamalek. Read more…
Toya Delazy accuses SA Hip Hop Awards of being ‘homophobic’
Latoya Nontokozo Buthelezi, better known as Toya Delazy, has slammed the South African Hip-Hop Awards (SAHHA), claiming the organisation is “homophobic”. Read more…
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