Mo Salah gets Madame Tussauds wax model

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Madame Tussauds internationally-renowned wax museum will get a new star in Egyptian and Liverpool star Mohamed Salah set to join the exhibition.

Cape Town voted Africa’s most dangerous city by Mexican council

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The city was listed recently as Africa?s most dangerous city by the Mexican Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice.

Africa's top beauty spots

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CNN has listed what it believes are the top beauty spots in the world - with Africa taking the top three positions out of a total of 23 places globally.

51 South African students stranded in China following visa scam

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According to SA Embassy in Beijing, 51 young South Africans were enticed by an agent to travel to China on a study visa to work as English teachers

Israel's 'secretly funded Syrian rebels for years'

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Rumours have been circulating for years about Israel?s involvement in Syrias civil war despite the Israeli government saying that it was keeping out of the bloody ...

Gaddafi’s son released from prison

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Seif Al Islam Gaddafi, the son of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, is now a free man after being released from jail following five years imprisonment.

African migrants die of suffocation in locked van

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The van had reportedly been closed for two days.

Dozens of migrants 'die of thirst' in Sahara

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Over 40 people, including women and infant children, allegedly died of thirst in the desert.

Palestinian cops arrest men for “breaking the fast”

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Ramadaan is often a busy month for Palestinian police as tempers are short and fights break out as Muslims go without food and water during the day as they fast. ...

Gaddafi’s son ‘free’ and the ICC wants him extradited

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Saif Al Islam Gaddafi was sentenced to death n 2015 for war crimes following his father's death in 2011.

ANALYSIS: What did the Palestinian hunger strike achieve?

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From the get-go, the strike, which was organised by Marwan Barghouti, a leader of the PA-affiliated Fatah movement, faced difficulties.

48 to stand trial for IS Egypt church bombings

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Forty-eight defendants have been referred to an Egyptian military court to face trial over three deadly church bombings in Egypt.

Palestinian hunger strike reaches critical stage

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The mass hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails reached a critical point on Wednesday, the 31st day of the protest action, with Fatah ...

ANC supports Palestinian hunger strike

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The African National Congress (ANC) has affirmed its solidarity with the Freedom and Dignity hunger strike by 1600 Palestinian prisoners in 200 Israeli jails.

20 million on verge of starvation in Africa, Yemen

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If nothing is done soon, 20 million people will starve to death over the next six months in South Sudan, Somalia, north-eastern Nigeria and Yemen, the United Nations ...

Ex-Robben Island prisoners support Palestinian hunger strike

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The mass prisoner strike is a demand for improved conditions in Israeli prisons.

Palestinian prisoners launch mass hunger strike

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More than 2 000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails are on a mass hunger strike across the country.

Uganda police rescue trafficked women

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Ugandan police in the country?s Tororo District have rescued four woman who were about to be trafficked to the Middle East after being offered work in Oman as cleaners. ...

Egypt declares state of emergency after church bombings

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Palm Sunday bombings of Egyptian Coptic churches kill 44.

Dog saves wedding guests from suicide bomber

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The incident follows another two suicide bombing attacks on the same day Nigeria's Borno state.

Tanzanian rapper arrested after lyrics 'insulted the president'

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The muso was arrested after releasing a song "with words that malign the government".

26 Somalis die of starvation as Hollywood steps in

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Media reports that at least two dozen people died in the past 36 hours.

Syrian conflict worst man-made disaster since World War II

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Nearly 6. 3 million people have been displaced and an additional 4. 9 million people forced to seek refuge, says the UN.

'Israel is an apartheid regime'

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UN report claims the country is guilty of policies and practices that constitute the crime of apartheid.

Coptic Christians shot, burned alive in Northern Sinai

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The father and son were allegedly kidnapped by and IS-affiliated group