1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (492+ words) A fire and stampede at a school in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 26 children, the UN children's agency said on Friday, with some pupils leaping from windows on high floors to escape the carnage. The blaze…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (604+ words) At least 24 people, all schoolchildren, have died and 29 others have been injured after a fire tore through a densely populated neighbourhood in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on Thursday morning. The blaze began in a home in Cimpunda, in…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (27+ words) africanews.com Ethiopia: Authorities in Tigray accuse Addis Ababa of drone strike near Mekelle...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (403+ words) Dozens of journalists protested in Tunisia on Tuesday over the arrest of a reporter on money-laundering charges, accusations his lawyer said were unfounded. Mohamed Yousfi, editor-in-chief of the Alqatiba website, was detained on Friday when he arrived for a radio…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (216+ words) Egyptian television presenter Sarah Khalifa and 11 other people have been sentenced to death after being convicted of drug trafficking and other offences, state-owned Al-Ahram reported. Khalifa, 39, was accused of being part of a criminal group that imported raw materials for…...

1+ week, 57+ min ago   (216+ words) Authorities in western Libya have arrested five people in connection with a recent string of drone attacks on a major energy facility. The government said the arrests exposed a “vast plot” and described the attacks as part of a coordinated…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (208+ words) Days of rescue efforts ended in tragedy on Saturday after Algerian emergency workers recovered the body of a young boy trapped in a well. Ten-year-old Ayoub Hadaf fell into the dry well at a farm in Ghassoul, in El Bayadh…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (649+ words) Duane "Keffe D" Davis, a former Los Angeles gang leader, was found guilty on Monday by a Las Vegas court of the 1996 murder of chart-topping rapper Tupac Shakur. Thirty years after the rap legend's death, the jury found Davis, 63, guilty…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (334+ words) Hundreds of mourners gathered at a church near Haiti’s capital on Sunday to bury victims of a brutal gang attack that killed at least 47 people and left more than 50 others kidnapped. The killings have renewed fears that worsening violence is…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (328+ words) Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has ordered the introduction of the death penalty for deliberately setting forest fires after a recent wave of blazes killed 12 people. The move comes as authorities investigate fires that erupted across several eastern provinces. Tebboune issued…...