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- Planes sustain ‘significant damage’ after maintenance check goes wrong in Kenya (PHOTOS)
A quick-thinking technician narrowly averted a serious disaster when they steered a runaway plane away from the airport hangar it was lurching towards and into a nearby parked plane.Feb 11, 2019 16:20World News - Selling the nation’s women? Tourism minister under fire over ‘Miss Curvy Uganda’ contestThe ‘curvy, sexy’ women of Uganda are set to be promoted as an attraction for visitors to the African nation. But the tourism minister who came up with the idea is now facing calls to resign from local feminists.Feb 8, 2019 09:15World News
- ICC orders conditional release of former Ivory Coast president Laurent GbagboInternational Criminal Court prosecutors at The Hague have ordered the conditional release of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, though he is forbidden from returning to the country.Feb 1, 2019 16:22World News
- Italian deputy PM calls on EU to sanction France for its 'continued colonization' of AfricaThe Italian deputy prime minister has blamed France for the European migrant crisis, accusing it of impoverishing African nations with "colonialist" policies. He promised to take the issue to the EU and other international bodies.Jan 21, 2019 07:03World News
- 8 peacekeepers killed in militant attack on UN base in MaliAt least eight UN peacekeepers have been killed and many injured in a “major” assault on one of their bases in the northeastern Mali, where various Al-Qaeda and Islamic State-linked groups have been active.Jan 20, 2019 17:48World News
- Airstrike kills 52 Al-Shabaab militants after ‘large group’ attacks Somali forces – US AFRICOMAt least 52 militants from the Somali jihadist group Al-Shabaab were killed in a US airstrike in the country on Saturday, the US military’s Africa Command has announced. It was called in response to Somali forces coming under fire from a...Jan 20, 2019 08:28Newsline
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