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The mega-pastor pushing anti-vaccine conspiracy theories

Thu, 18/04/2024 - 03:54
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome is targeting the new malaria vaccines as African countries start their rollout.
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Protest and pain - Kenya's month-long doctors' strike

Tue, 16/04/2024 - 01:38
Patients have been left without access to crucial services at state hospitals for a month.
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Sudan War: 'Tell me how to make it stop'

Mon, 15/04/2024 - 11:48
Slam poet Emi Mahmoud wants the world not to forget Sudan, one year into its civil war.
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Watch: Bus passengers rescued from flood waters

Tue, 09/04/2024 - 15:26
The bus was travelling to Nairobi when it was swept off the road.
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Watch: Moment Russ Cook finishes length of Africa run

Sun, 07/04/2024 - 19:36
Russ Cook, nicknamed "Hardest Geezer", has finished his challenge of running the length of Africa.
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'My first time home 30 years after I fled a genocide'

Fri, 05/04/2024 - 18:24
The BBC's Victoria Uwonkunda speaks to survivors of the Rwanda genocide violence 30 years after she fled.
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Who is Senegal's unlikely new president?

Wed, 03/04/2024 - 11:56
Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Senegal's fifth president, has been sworn into office at a ceremony in the capital, Dakar.
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Africa's week in pictures: 19-25 January 2024

Fri, 26/01/2024 - 01:24
A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.
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Gaza war: ICJ to rule on call for Israel to stop military action

Fri, 26/01/2024 - 01:03
The ICJ could order Israel to stop military action, in a high-profile case brought by South Africa.
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Nelson Chamisa: Zimbabwe opposition CCC leader quits 'contaminated' party

Thu, 25/01/2024 - 19:42
Nelson Chamisa, who came second in elections last year, says his party has been "hijacked".
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Afcon 2023: Angola out to prove critics wrong and deliver 'happiness'

Thu, 25/01/2024 - 19:33
Captain Fredy says Angola are growing in confidence as the Palancas Negras write history at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.
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Plateau state violence: At least 43 killed in Nigeria clashes in Mangu

Thu, 25/01/2024 - 17:45
At least 43 people were killed in ethnic and religious violence in Plateau state, residents tell the BBC.
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Kelly Khumalo accused of ordering Senzo Meyiwa's murder in South Africa

Thu, 25/01/2024 - 16:23
Top footballer Senzo Meyiwa was killed on the orders of singer Kelly Khumalo, a South African court hears.
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Henry Okello Oryem: Uganda minister says people dying of hunger are 'idiots'

Thu, 25/01/2024 - 13:54
Some say the comments are insensitive after 2,200 died of starvation and related illnesses in 2022.
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Bola Tinubu denies planning to move Nigeria's capital from Abuja to Lagos

Thu, 25/01/2024 - 13:35
The presidency scotches rumours that there is a plan to relocate the capital from Abuja.
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Johannesburg's Usindiso fire survivors living in unsafe shacks in South Africa

Thu, 25/01/2024 - 13:17
Months after South Africa's deadliest fire, families are living in shacks with no power or water.
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Ghana coup plot: Soldiers among six sentenced to death by hanging

Thu, 25/01/2024 - 10:10
The six have been sentenced to death by hanging for their involvement in a 2021 coup plot.
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Coltan discovered in Kenya - Mining Minister Salim Mvurya

Thu, 25/01/2024 - 09:41
The government is assessing the value of the mineral reserves, which have been found in six counties.
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Asante Gold: UK to loan back Ghana's looted 'crown jewels'

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 23:01
Treasures taken 150 years ago will go back, the BBC can reveal, in a possible model for other disputes.
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Ethiopia starvation: Fear of famine in Tigray grows

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 03:44
Reports of hundreds of children dying of starvation are trickling in from remote areas in Tigray.
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