Dozens of migrants presumed dead after boat capsizes off Libyan coast
Africa • Nov 12, 2025, 10:17 PM
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The United Nations said Wednesday that 42 migrants were missing and presumed dead after a boat capsized off Libya’s coast last week, the latest in a string of deadly shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean that have claimed more than a thousand lives so far this year.
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Nicki Minaj defends Donald Trump's Christian genocide claim in Nigeria
Africa • 3:12 PM
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Rapper Nicki Minaj took up President Donald Trump’s allegations that Christians are persecuted in Nigeria, saying Tuesday at a United Nations event organized by the U.S. that she wants to shine a spotlight on “the deadly threat.” Story by Ellen Gainsford
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'Solar Mamas': Program trains Zanzibar women as solar power technicians
Africa • 11:24 AM
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Although the semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar has been boosting its tourism industry in recent years, it remains largely a rural village society, where half of homes have no electricity. Inthe face of this issue, an NGO is teaching villa
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Rights group accuses TotalEnergies of war crime complicity in Mozambique
Africa • 11:13 AM
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A European human rights nonprofit on Tuesday accused TotalEnergies of complicity in war crimes, torture and enforced disappearances allegedly carried out by government soldiers in Mozambique, filing a criminal complaint with the French anti-terrorism pro
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Nigeria: Two abducted girls escape as authorities search for 24 other students
Africa • 11:12 AM
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Two schoolgirls who were abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria have escaped. At least one of them is safe, according to the school's principal, as hunters join security forces in the search for the missing students in forests c
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Trump remarks fuel US political storm over Nigerian schoolgirl abductions
Africa • 3:20 AM
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Nigeria’s new army chief has ordered troops to fight “day and night” to recover 25 schoolgirls abducted in a deadly raid in Kebbi State, an attack that has become entangled in rising US political tensions after claims from President Donald Trump and his
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