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Police in South Africa’s capital, Pretoria, are looking for a shopping trolley rider filmed holding on to a fuel tanker that was speeding on a major highway, local media reported. The incident happened on Sunday following heavy rains, the man was seen smiling and waving at other motorists, local media …

The prices of petrol and diesel at the pump increased in Rwanda on Monday, amid instability in the global oil market, Reuters agency reported, citing utility regulator. According to the regulator, the fuel price increase is due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “We had seen these expected increases based on …

An eight-carriage cargo train derailed as it was traveling from the Lualaba to Kasaï province, in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the BBC reports. Clementine Lutanda, a local administrator from the Lubudi neighborhood where the train began its journey, told the BBC that the crash left seven people dead and …

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) said 168 people are missing following an attack on a train last week in which eight people were killed and several wounded, Reuters agency reports. Suspected bandits blew up the track on the Abuja-Kaduna route in the northwest of the country and then opened fire …

Five more victims of a boat accident involving women and children fleeing armed gang violence in central Nigeria have been found, the BBC reports. The head of the Niger state emergency agency, Ahmad Ibrahim Inga, told the BBC the bodies of four children and one man were found on Thursday. …

UN investigators have found new evidence of mass graves believed to contain migrant bodies at a smuggling point in northwest Libya. The organisation’s fact-finding mssion said the discovery – in the town of Tarhuna – provided further evidence that human rights violations in Libya are “widespread, systematic or both.” The …

A teenager in northern Mozambique who was presumed dead and whose funeral was held in November has turned up in her home village of Lindi, local media reported. The community is referring to Eurélia Manuel Benjamim as having been resurrected from the dead, but she says she had just gone …

Nigeria’s military says it has killed 34 members of a motorbike gang in an air raid in the northern state of Kaduna, the BBC reports. It carried out the operation on Wednesday near Mangoro village, an air force spokesperson said. Armed gangs, locally known as bandits, have stepped up attacks …

A boat carrying mostly women and children capsized in north-central Nigeria on Wednesday, leaving at least seven people dead and dozens missing, Reuters agency reports. Two residents in Guni village in Niger state said the passengers on the boat were trying to escape from gunmen who had attacked their village …

Kenyan police say they have taken disciplinary action against a policeman filmed forcing his way into a private car through a window on a busy road in the capital, Nairobi. The incident, which has been shared widely on social media, was captured by a local TV crew in Nairobi’s central …