Cyclone Chido killed at least 94 people in Mozambique in its deadly rampage through the Indian Ocean last week, the country's disaster management agency said Sunday, raising a previous death toll of 76.
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Seventeen Chinese men have been arrested on suspicion of running an illegal gold mine in Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said there on Friday, as the government pressed on with a crackdown on
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Life seems almost normal in the streets of Lubero but the calm is deceptive -- the town nestled in the forested, misty hills of eastern DR Congo is under threat from an advancing rebel militia.
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Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for a contested bill severely curtailing LGBTQ rights to become law after rejecting two bids to overturn it.
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Post-election protests rocking Mozambique since late October have interrupted trade and hampered a major aluminium smelter, with the southeast African nation braced for more disruption next week.
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In late November, Angola told Rwanda of what would amount to a key breakthrough: The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo had agreed to direct talks with M23 rebels.
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Diversified miner South32 said on Thursday that road blockages affecting its operations in Mozambique have largely cleared in the past few days, allowing for the safe transport of alumina to Mozal.
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Air Portugal, or TAP, is contemplating moving crew members from "safe houses" in Mozambique to South Africa in anticipation of trouble after a ruling next week about the disputed election.
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Kenya plans to use assisted reproduction techniques to save the northern white rhino - a species that has only two females remaining worldwide - from the brink of extinction.
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