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Nearly 50 people dead and 108 unaccounted for after smugglers apparently force passengers into the water More than 100 people are still missing after smugglers apparently forced migrants to leave their boats and swim in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organization for Migration has said. Forty-eight people have so far…

Overcrowded boat on Lake Kivu capsizes as it was about to dock near Goma, with death toll likely to rise significantly At least 78 people have drowned and many more are missing after a boat belived to be carrying 278 passengers capsized on Thursday morning just a few hundred metres from the shore of Lake…

Agreement to hand back UK’s last African colony follows rounds of negotiations and international pressure The UK has agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending years of bitter dispute over Britain’s last African colony. The UK expelled the Chagossians in the 1960s and 1970s, in what has been described as a crime…

Regulator says advert by publisher of the Citizen newspaper ‘likely to harm national unity’ Tanzania has suspended the online operations of a top newspaper publisher after one of its publications ran an animated advert depicting the country’s president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, and referencing a spate of recent abductions and killings of dissidents. The advert, published…