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Everton set for pre-season friendly in Tanzania

BBC Africa - Fri, 26/05/2017 - 10:28
Everton will become the first ever Premier League side to play in Tanzania when they travel their for a friendly on 13 July.
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UN strongly condemns terrorist attack in Egypt

UN News Centre - Africa - Fri, 26/05/2017 - 07:00
The United Nations Security Council and Secretary-General António Guterres today condemned in the strongest terms the killing of at least 28 people in Egypt, with the Council denouncing the attack &#8220heinous&#8221 and &#8220cowardly.&#8221
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Fresh violence empties city in Central African Republic; senior UN official urges more aid

UN News Centre - Africa - Fri, 26/05/2017 - 07:00
A senior United Nations official is calling for additional humanitarian aid in the Central African Republic, where nearly the entire population of the city Bria was forcibly displaced last week.
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Libya: UN envoy calls on rival groups to immediately halt violence in Tripoli

UN News Centre - Africa - Fri, 26/05/2017 - 07:00
Condemning the surging violence in Tripoli, the top United Nations official in Libya called today for an immediate end to fighting in and around the capital and for rival groups to &#8220put Libyan national interests&#8221 ahead of their own.
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'Saint of soccer'

BBC Africa - Fri, 26/05/2017 - 02:13
The 1957 tour that created the first global football superstar.
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Wilfried Zaha: Crystal Palace winger extends deal by five years

BBC Africa - Fri, 26/05/2017 - 01:33
Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha signs a five-year contract extension with the Premier League club.
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On Africa Day, UN chief says world must move from ‘managing crises to preventing them’

UN News Centre - Africa - Thu, 25/05/2017 - 19:41
‘Africa Day’ 2017 comes at an important moment in the continent’s endeavours towards peace, inclusive economic growth and sustainable development United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said, urging humanity to listen and learn with the people of Africa.
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Five Kenyan police killed in roadside bomb attack

BBC Africa - Thu, 25/05/2017 - 17:43
At least 14 policemen have been killed in roadside bomb attacks in the past two days.
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Five things you might not know about Africa

BBC Africa - Thu, 25/05/2017 - 17:37
Africa Day is 25 May, it marks the creation of the Organisation of African Unity, now called the African Union.
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Atsu, Wakaso, left out of Ghana squad

BBC Africa - Thu, 25/05/2017 - 16:50
Christian Atsu and Mubarak Wakaso are left out of Ghana's squad for next month's Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Ethiopia.
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Formal trade in Africa can improve region, prospects for women – UN agency reports

UN News Centre - Africa - Thu, 25/05/2017 - 07:00
Simplifying the requirements for a business license, offering incentives to tax payers, and tackling official corruption are among the recommendations by the United Nations agricultural organization to cut informal trade among African countries and boost economic prosperity, particularly for women.
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Umaru Fofana: Waiting for take-off in West Africa

BBC Africa - Thu, 25/05/2017 - 01:47
Flying between the West African capitals of Freetown and Banjul should take about an hour. But as the BBC's Umaru Fofana found out, it can be quicker and easier to fly via Morocco or even Belgium.
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Charlotte Attwood: The sex slaves of al-Shabab

BBC Africa - Thu, 25/05/2017 - 01:18
Last year Salama Ali uncovered a secret - that the al-Shabab militant group was seizing Kenyan woman and turning them into sex slaves.
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South Sudan: ‘Fighting must stop now’ so millions can be spared from famine, say UN agency chiefs

UN News Centre - Africa - Thu, 25/05/2017 - 00:12
Despite “appalling conditions” in South Sudan, it is not too late to save more people from dying, the head of the United Nations agriculture agency said today, joining the World Food Programme (WFP) chief in a call to all parties enmeshed in the country’s conflict to end the violence and work together to ensure access to food and other life-saving support.
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Top UN official in South Sudan urges Security Council to advance ‘common strategy’ on political process

UN News Centre - Africa - Wed, 24/05/2017 - 21:15
The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan today urged the Security Council to unite behind a common strategy for advancing the political process and peace in the crisis-torn country.
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The women saving Somalia's animals from drought

BBC Africa - Wed, 24/05/2017 - 17:39
Somali women vets have been deployed across the country to keep animals alive amid a devastating drought.
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Democracy on trial?

BBC Africa - Wed, 24/05/2017 - 15:53
The BBC's Karen Allen asks whether the treason charges faced by Zambia's opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema are a sign that Zambia's reputation as a bastion of democracy is under threat.
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DR Congo: 400,000 children in Greater Kasai at risk of severe acute malnutrition, UNICEF warns

UN News Centre - Africa - Wed, 24/05/2017 - 07:00
Deteriorating security conditions have severely disrupted life-saving interventions for children in Greater Kasai in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in recent months, putting an estimated 400,000 children at risk of severe acute malnutrition, the United Nations Children&#39s Fund (UNICEF) has said.
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Senior UN official appeals for aid to stop 'unprecedented' spread of cholera in Yemen

UN News Centre - Africa - Wed, 24/05/2017 - 07:00
With more than 100,000 people in Yemen believed to be at risk for cholera, the top United Nations humanitarian official in the country is appealing to Governments for urgent financial and political support
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Two UN ‘blue helmets’ killed in attack in northern Mali

UN News Centre - Africa - Tue, 23/05/2017 - 22:27
Two peacekeepers of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) were killed and another injured on Tuesday morning in an ambush in the northern Kidal region.
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