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[RFI] A group of Senegalese football supporters jailed in Morocco after the Africa Cup of Nations final descended into chaos over controversial calls returned home on Sunday, after being pardoned by the Moroccan king.

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[UN News] The recent Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks demonstrate that the world is still vulnerable to rapidly spreading infectious diseases, Tedros Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), warned on Saturday at the close of the 79th World Health Assembly in Geneva.

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[The Conversation Africa] By the second week of the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo it was already clear that containing the spread of the haemorrhagic disease was proving to be difficult.

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[African Arguments] As international diplomatic efforts intensify in attempts to overcome Libya's prolonged political deadlock, a renewed US approach has emerged, marked by a noticeable tone of optimism that sits uneasily alongside the country's fragmented and volatile realities.

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Nigeria’s president Bola Tinubu will run for re-election in January after clinching his party’s presidential nomination with a landslide victory in the All Progressives Congress primaries.

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Eighteen Senegalese football fans jailed for hooliganism during the Africa Cup of Nations final in Rabat have been pardoned by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI.

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[allAfrica] Africa has seen this before.

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Ethiopia holds a general election on June 1, with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed all but guaranteed of victory despite multiple armed conflicts and the economic impact of the Middle East war.

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With Eid-al Adha just days away, customers at a sheep market in Ivory Coast’s capital Abidjan are looking for the best-priced sheep to sacrifice for the Muslim festival. But supply is significantly down on last year and traders are driving hard bargains.

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As the World Health Organization raises the risk of Ebola to the highest level for the DR Congo, the African Union is warning that 10 countries are at risk of being affected by the virus.

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Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are major importers of used garments from the West and China.

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Countries in the horn: During the Interministerial Meeting on Polio in the Horn of Africa and Yemen, held on the sidelines of the Seventy-ninth World

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Seychelles president visits police: President of the Republic of Seychelles, Dr Patrick Herminie, concluded his series of visits on La Digue with a stop

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is urgently scaling up its emergency response in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), working

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Economic community of west: The acting Head of the ECOWAS Peace Support Operations Division, Dr Sani Adamu led an Operational Readiness Inspection Team to

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Member states advance regional: As countries across the African region intensify preparedness and response measures against the ongoing outbreak of Ebola

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They are thought to have caught the virus before the outbreak was identified, the Red Cross says.

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In London for one night only ahead of his Ibiza residency, this sell-out show represented far more than just a performance.

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The World Bank is warning that the Iran war is forcing more African countries to seek emergency financing.

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It's still spring in western Europe, but hot weather has already arrived. Forecasters say it’s only going to get worse.

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Residents of Dakar have been reacting to Friday’s sacking of prime minister Ousmane Sonko. After months of tensions, Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dissolved government and fired Sonko. But the former prime minister retains a passionate following among the country’s youth.