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A woman carries sambaza, the small Lake Kivu fish, to sell at a market in Goma, capital of North Kivu, in 2015.

DR Congo has 28.8 million people in acute food insecurity through December, and the 2027 projection rises to 30.3 million

Heads of delegation pose for photographs at the first Russia-Africa Summit, held in Sochi, Russia, in October 2019.

Russia-Africa Summit

Russia-Africa summit brings 48 countries to Moscow as Putin pitches lifting trade from $27 billion to more than $50 billion

Algeria's president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, at an official meeting in Slovenia in May 2024.

Algeria sends troops to Niger in its first military operation beyond its borders since 1973

A colourised electron micrograph of an Ebola virus particle, produced at the laboratories of the CDC, the United States public health agency.

Kenya confirms a third Ebola case, a 65-year-old woman who had been in quarantine since 6 October

An aerial view of Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, in 2019. The city is among the areas under curfew.

Mauritius extends curfew to ten regions and reaches 94 arrests after a week of unrest

Meskel Square and the Addis Ababa skyline, in Ethiopia's capital, in 2021.

Explosions hit Addis Ababa, and a rebel alliance says it struck Ethiopia's military headquarters with drones

An Indian Navy ship on anti-piracy patrol in the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Somalia, in November 2018.

Somali pirates killed five of a tanker's 17 crew before losing the ship to Puntland forces

The seat of Morocco's parliament in Rabat, in 2019. The Chamber of Representatives, elected on 23 September, has 395 seats.

Morocco names its first woman head of government as the king asks El Mansouri to form a cabinet

Health workers in personal protective equipment at an Ebola treatment unit run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Liberia in 2014.

Ebola has killed more than 3,700 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the WHO sees the first signs of a retreat

Seven Ethiopian armed groups join forces in an alliance to remove Abiy Ahmed