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Somalia’s government said Saturday that an operation in the country’s Lower and Middle Shabelle region, conducted by the army, backed by locals, killed more than 100 al-Shabab militants.Speaking to the media in the capital, Mogadishu, Saturday, Somalia...

MOGADISHU— Somali security forces backed by international partners killed 15 al-Shabaab militants in a sting operation carried out in southern Somalia on Friday.The Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism said in a statement issued in Mogadishu, t...

NAIROBI— Eight more people have succumbed to cholera in Kayole, Nairobi County raising the death toll from the waterborne disease to ten in the last two weeks in the locality.Local administration and officials from County Government of Nairobi have urg...

KAMPALA— The next three weeks are crucial in Uganda’s containment of Ebola following a drop in new infections for the first time in 10 days.If the trend persists, the country could enjoy “freer” Christmas holidays after nearly two months of partial res...

KANO (Nigeria)— Gunmen killed 15 people in multiple attacks in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state, the latest violence in the volatile region, a government official said.Northwest and central Nigeria have been terrorised by criminal gangs known locally a...

It was 26 November 2021 that WHO declared that the world was facing a new variant of concern: Omicron. It would go on to...

KAMPALA, UGANDA — Uganda's president extended a six-week lockdown Saturday on two districts at the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak that has claimed 55...

Zambian authorities said they will travel next week to Russia to retrieve the body of a 23-year-old Zambian who died while fighting for the Russian military in Ukraine. His family and the Zambian government are still waiting for answers from Moscow on ...