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Egypt sends eight for trial over botched repair of King Tut burial mask

Eight Egyptians involved in a botched repair of the famous golden burial mask of King Tut have been referred to trial for “gross negligence”. Prosecutors...

Robert Mugabe returns to Zimbabwe looking fit after holiday

Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe arrived home from a weeks-long holiday looking sprightly, quashing rumours that he had a heart attack. The 91-year-old president arrived late...

Tourists are warned to stay away after terrorists killed at least 10 in a hotel in Burkina Faso

Tourists have been warned not to travel to an area of Burkina Faso after a deadly attack by suspected Islamic terrorists on a hotel...

Ebola death in Sierra Leone

A woman’s body in Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, the day after the World Health Organisation declared the outbreak over in West...

Chilling Out in the Heat

By Sean Sheehan Kenya can be just too much – crowded national parks, safari schedules, bumpy jeep rides, bucket loads of other people’s...

Egypt’s first parliament in three years convenes

Egypt’s first legislature in more than three years, a 596-seat chamber packed with supporters of president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, has convened. The assembly, elected in November...

Egypt’s tourism minister to visit attacked tourists

Minister Hisham Zazou is expected to visit European victims of a suspected terror attack on a hotel in a Red Sea resort. Three foreign tourists...

WHO declares Guinea free of Ebola

Guinea has been declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organisation. It means there have been no new infections for 42 days. Tow-and-a-half thousand people...

Boko Haram kill 30 with rocket-propelled grenades and suicide bombs

30 people were killed when Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck the north-east Nigerian city of Maiduguri with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses...

Boko Haram violence forces a million children from school

Attacks by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram in north-eastern Nigeria and neighbouring countries have forced more than one million children out of school, heightening...

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