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Presidential election in Senegal: 79 candidates register their candidacies
Seventy-nine people filed their candidacy for the February 2024 presidential election in Senegal before the deadline of Tuesday evening (midnight local time and GMT), according to the Senegalese daily Le Soleil.
Egypt: Passport holders stranded in Rafah plead with authorities to be allowed home
Dozens of Egyptian passport and ID holders have been stuck in the Gaza Strip for weeks, increasingly desperate for the opportunity to leave the besieged territory and escape the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
Guinea: fire at Conakry fuel depot “completely extinguished” (government)
"Cooling operations in all segments of the oil facility are continuing. However, the area affected by the fire remains closed to the public for investigation purposes", the government said.
DR Congo police fire tear gas at banned election protest
Five of President Felix Tshisekedi's challengers in the race as well as civil society organizations, called on their supporters to join a march on Wednesday against the poll, which they say was fraudulent and should be annulled.
Attacks kill at least 160 people in central Nigeria
Local government officials said on Monday that armed groups have killed at least 160 people in a region plagued for several years by religious and ethnic tensions.
Floods in a central province in Congo kill at least 22 people
Flooding triggered by heavy rains in central Congo killed at least 22 people, including 10 from the same family, a local official said Tuesday.
Nothern Gaza’s Beit Lahia in ruins as war rages on
Images of rubble and buildings in ruins in northern Gaza's Beit Lahia, including of the destroyed Indonesian hospital, as Israel continues a relentless air and ground offensive that has killed at least 20,915 people, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry
Afua Asantewaa : the Ghanaian lady set to break Guinness world record
Ghana’s Afua Asantewaa Aduonum is on a journey to break a world record for the longest individual singing marathon.
Medical progress in 2023: Advances against malaria and alzheimer’s disease
New vaccines are being rolled out globally to combat seemingly incurable diseases such as malaria and Alzheimer's.
Pics of the day: December 26, 2023
Africanews focuses on the most striking images of the day