Africa (except North Africa)

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A bus swerved to avoid hitting a donkey and collided with a truck, killing at least 19 people and injuring dozens of others in Senegal on Monday, authorities said.

The collision happened near Ngeun Sarr in the country’s north, President Macky Sall tweeted.

“Yet another fatal accident on our roads,” he said. “My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families. Speedy recovery to the injured.”

LILONGWE, Jan 15 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — The cholera outbreak in Malawi, the worst in two decades, has reached the grim mark of 750 deaths. 

According to Malawi’s Health Minister, cases continue to rise across the country despite some encouraging signs in some areas.

MOGADISHU, Jan 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Somali government said that it had closed 250 bank accounts belonging to al-Shabaab to cut off the militant group’s funding sources.

Additionally, 70 mobile money accounts of the militants were shut down as part of the government’s efforts to block their financial flow, senior Somali officials told a press conference here.

Somalia has declared an all-out war against the al-Qaida-linked militants. Although driven out of Mogadishu in 2011, the militants are still conducting ambushes in rural areas. 

ABUJA, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- At least seven people were killed after a truck conveying over 70 people overturned in the country's central Plateau State, Nigeria's traffic police confirmed on Sunday.

Peter Longsan, a spokesman for the Federal Road Safety Corps in Plateau, told reporters in the state capital of Jos, that scores of people were also injured as the truck overturned due to loss of control on a road near the Jwak village located in the Mangu local government area late Saturday.

GOMA, Congo (AP) — A suspected extremist attack at a church in eastern Congo killed at least 10 people and wounded more than three dozen, according to the country’s army.

A group linked to Islamic extremists was suspected of being responsible for a bomb that went off in the Pentecostal church in the North Kivu province town of Kasindi, military spokesperson Anthony Mwalushayi told The Associated Press by phone.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Enough was enough. For 13 years, extremists with al-Qaida’s East Africa affiliate had controlled Mohamud Adow’s village in central Somalia, imposing harsh ideology and arresting local teachers and traditional leaders.

Then, word came that Somali forces in a surprising national offensive had expelled the fighters from nearby villages.

DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Four members of a family were killed in a road accident on Saturday morning in Tanzania's eastern region of Morogoro, said an official.

Majid Mwanga, the Kilosa district commissioner in Morogoro region, said the accident occurred at around 9:20 a.m. local time when a salon car in which the family was travelling in collided head on with a truck at Dumila along the Morogoro-Dodoma highway.

"A mother and her baby, who were also members of the family, survived but they were injured," said Mwanga.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Alou Diallo says he was drinking tea with his family one morning last month when groups of “white soldiers” invaded his village in central Mali, setting fire to houses and gunning down people suspected of being Islamic extremists. He scrambled to safety in the bush, but his son was shot and wounded while fleeing, then was finished off as he lay on the ground.

MOGADISHU, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Security forces in Somalia's Puntland State have killed a senior leader of the Somali wing of the Islamic State (IS) in Balidhidhin, a district in the northeastern Bari region, local authorities confirmed on Friday.

Abu-Albara Al Amani, an Ethiopian national, who was head of the group's operations in Puntland, was killed in a foiled attack on an army base on Thursday night, Puntland Security Forces (PSF) said.

Al Amani, from the Amhara region of Ethiopia, forcefully recruited many of his countrymen into the group, police said.

12 Jan 2023; MEMO: Turkiye and Rwanda have agreed to boost cooperation and bilateral relations in the field of security, defence industry, culture, economy and education, Anadolu News Agency reports.