AFRICA

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Ali Bongo, the former president of Gabon deposed in a 2023 military coup, has officially left the country and resurfaced in Angola. The Angolan presidency confirmed his arrival, noting that Bongo is now reunited with his family, who were also recently released from detention in Libreville. His wife, Sylvia, and son, Noureddin, had been imprisoned on corruption charges that include embezzlement and money laundering.

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Floods caused by torrential rains have killed at least 33 people in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. President Félix Tshisekedi has called a government crisis meeting and pledged support to victims. Desperate residents are trying to flee the floodwaters by wading, swimming or paddling to safety in homemade canoes.

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April 28, 2025, BBC Africa Eye released an unapologetic documentary titled Blood Parliament, exposing the behind-the-scenes stories of Kenya’s Gen Z-forged protests in June and July last year. The series investigates how police reacted with bullets after a rebellion sparked by Gen Z against the widely criticized Finance Bill 2024—a bill hiking taxes amid economic struggle—exploded across the country. What started out as peaceful demonstrations ended up in a bloodbath with at least 39 persons dead, the majority being young, unarmed, and never seen again.

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Off the coast of Egypt, there has been a tragedy. The Egyptian governorate office told NBC News that a Sinbad Submarines submersible crashed in the Red Sea on March 27, less than a mile off the coast of Hurghada, killing at least six people.

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Tanzania has banned all agricultural imports from Malawi and South Africa, effective midnight, in retaliation for what it perceives as restrictions on its exports. South Africa has long prohibited the import of bananas from Tanzania, and Malawi last month blocked imports of flour, rice, ginger, bananas, and maize from Tanzania.

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The woman survived two brutal attacks in the dying days of the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. First, she said, she was dragged to a military encampment and gang-raped by Eritrean soldiers who held dozens of other women. Two days later, she was raped again by a group of militiamen.