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The Kenya refinery is part of Dangote's ambitious bid to expand and help industralise Africa by 2030.
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Public school teachers in Libya are continuing their strike over pay and working conditions, with demonstrations held in Tripoli for a third consecutive week.
Piracy off the Somali coast has increased in recent years after dropping when international naval operations began in 2011.
El Mansouri's cabinet will have to tackle several pressing issues including unemployment and living costs, as well as persistent social disparities particularly weighing on young people.
Burkina Faso opened its first gold refinery, pushing ahead with plans to better organise the commercialisation of the precious metal in one of the continent's top producers.
The deaths sparked a national outcry about the scale of violence against women in the country.
Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri has been the mayor of Marrakesh for a number of years and also served as a minister in the previous coalition government.
Her appointment by the king makes her only the second woman to lead a government in the Arab world.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has denied receiving advance knowledge of the 7 October 2023 offensive, claiming that security chiefs did not warn him.
Trevor Mwamba was detained last month with other opposition figures and charged with treason, his son says.
A Congolese politician has been beaten to death after promoting Ebola awareness during a radio interview. Marie-Celestin Karondwa from the ruling UDPS party was attacked on Sunday by residents of Butembo, in DR Congo's North Kivu province.
Nearly two years after Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, thousands of children are still struggling for an education.
Ghana is confronting a renewed debate over where legitimate law enforcement ends and the protection of free expression begins.
Oil tycoon Aliko Dangote says he believes the continent will will largely supply its own refined fuel needs by 2030.
Speaking at an interfaith meeting in Metz, he urged religious leaders to foster a path to friendship, peace, and brotherhood.
Organised crime, gang violence and conflicts over the control of criminal networks are fuelling mass shootings in South Africa, according to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
The mayor of Tangier, Mounir Limouri, was placed in police custody on Monday over alleged electoral fraud in the recent parliamentary elections.
FIFA lawyers claimed UEFA is harassing Gianni Infantino, in a court filing urging a Florida judge to deny the European soccer body’s request for evidence discovery about a World Cup private investor plan that has rocked the sport.
Anger is growing in Cameroon over rising gender-based violence that has seen at least 56 women killed since the start of the year. In response to the outcry, a bill to make femicide a separate crime from murder will be considered during parliament's November session.
Guinea-Bissau's exiled former president Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who was ousted in a November coup, told AFP on Monday he will return and run for president in an election due on December 6.
More than 20 United Nations experts on Monday warned against US deportations to third countries, saying the policy is "triggering a cascade of human rights violations".
