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About 200 passengers, mostly women, were on vessel that sunk in Niger River At least 27 people have died and more than 100 are missing after a boat capsized in northern Nigeria, authorities have said. About 200 passengers were on the boat that was going from the state of Kogi to neighbouring state of Niger…

Satellite data analysis suggests algal blooms could be behind mass die-off in Botswana that sparked flurry of theories in 2020 More than 350 elephants that died in mysterious circumstances probably drank toxic water, according to a new paper that warns of an “alarming trend” in climate-induced poisoning. The deaths in Botswana’s Okavango delta were described…

Researchers say fossilised marks were apparently made in same place within days of each other about 1.5m years ago About 1.5m years ago a big-toothed cousin of prehistoric humans walked quickly along a lakeside in Kenya, footprints marking the muddy ground. But they were not our only distant relative on the scene: treading the same…

Woman sustains head injuries in incident in capital and police kill two protesters in northern city A military vehicle mowed down a woman in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, as protests have gripped the southern African country weeks after an election that the opposition said was rigged. Videos of the incident on Wednesday that have been…

Laila Soueif is to meet the foreign secretary, who in opposition called for the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah The British-born mother of an Egyptian political prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 58 days is preparing to meet the foreign secretary, David Lammy, to urge him to secure her son’s release. Laila Soueif’s…

Swapo party could lose its majority for the first time since independence in 1990, if youth voter turnout is high Namibians are going to the polls with the longtime ruling party’s parliamentary majority under threat if dissatisfied young people turn out in big numbers amid a wave of anti-incumbent sentiment globally. The Swapo party could…

Revelation emerges at hearing for Anthony Odiong, 55, charged with several counts and held in Texas on $5.5m bail A Roman Catholic priest with links to Texas and Louisiana who is facing criminal charges for allegedly abusing his position of authority within the church to pursue sex with vulnerable women fathered at least two children…

Sea Story was carrying 30 tourists and 14 crew when it sent a distress signal on Monday morning Four bodies have been recovered from a capsized tourist boat that sank off Egypt’s Red Sea coast and eight people are still missing, the local governor has said. The Red Sea governor, Amr Hanafi, said the yacht,…

Data shows a threefold increase in internal displacement across the African continent since 2009, with flooding and drought posing a growing threat Wars and climate disasters have driven a threefold increase in the number of internally displaced people in Africa over the past 15 years, according to new data. There are now 35 million people…