Cape Town – From KZN flood victims scrambling to get aid; to gunmen attacking a Nigerian police quarters and killing four officers… Read these and other stories making the headlines from around the African continent.
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Endangered pangolins get fresh chance in SA clinic
The hospital room is air-cooled to feel like a pangolin’s burrow. The patient, Lumbi, is syringe-fed with a protein-packed smoothie, given a daily dose of medicine and… Read more
Four police officers killed in Nigeria’s restive southeast
Gunmen attacked a Nigerian police quarters and killed four officers, police said on Wednesday, in the latest violence in the country’s restive southeast where separatist tensions have… Read more
Ivory Coast PM quits, new govt next week, says president
Ivory Coast’s prime minister resigned on Wednesday and a new “streamlined” government will take shape next week, President Alassane Ouattara announced. Speaking at the opening of outgoing Prime… Read more
MEPs call for ‘genuine’ dialogue in Tunisia
Members of the European Parliament urged Tunisian President Kais Saied on Wednesday to engage in “genuine” dialogue with political parties and civil society, months after he staged... Read more
Scramble for relief for South Africa’s flood victims
Victims of South Africa’s deadliest storm on record scrambled to get help on Thursday as the death toll from floods and landslips that struck the country’s southeast… Read more
Four prison officials killed in anglophone Cameroon
Four members of Cameroon’s prisons department, including a regional manager, were killed in an ambush by armed men in a troubled anglophone region, a senior official told… Read more
Four French, one Belgian among 10 dead in Egypt bus crash: governor
Four French and one Belgian were among 10 people killed in a bus crash Wednesday in Egypt, whose tourism industry is only just emerging from a decade… Read more
Limpopo conjoined twins born to a 41-year-old woman die in hospital
Conjoined twins that were born at Jane Furse Hospital through a caesarean section died in the early hours of Thursday after their condition deteriorated overnight. In… Read more
CAF Champions League quarter-finals: Five things to know
Forward Peter Shalulile from South African club Mamelodi Sundowns is in superb form ahead of a CAF Champions League quarter-final first leg against Petro Luanda in Angola… Read more
PIC | ‘Surprise… surprise!’ – Kelly Rowland says she is in SA
Twitter has been abuzz since American singer Kelly Rowland announced on social media that she is in South Africa. It all started when one social media… Read more
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