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Europe News

Ethiopia 'closing in on itself' amid pressure to end fighting

Ethiopia has been locked in a regional conflict between government forces and the former ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front, for months now.

26/04/2021

Eco-Innovation

This is the algorithm that could save elephants from extinction

The beloved species is being protected by artificial intelligence.

26/04/2021

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Kenya: Giraffes rescued from sinking island

A rescue mission to save a group of giraffes from a sinking island in Kenya has now been completed.

25/04/2021

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Chad president's funeral: last touches made before homage begins

Chad president's funeral: last touches made before homage begins

23/04/2021

Libya

130 people en-route to Europe feared dead in shipwreck off Libya coast

Around 130 people are feared dead after the wreck of a boat carrying them to Europe was found off the Libyan coast.

23/04/2021

Climate

More than 700m children live on the frontlines of the climate crisis

Climate change is 'the largest threat' to children around the world, warns Save the Children International.

21/04/2021

Business Series

Business Angola explores how economic growth is getting a boost

In partnership with Governo de Angola

How is Angola overcoming its economic challenges? Euronews finds out in this week's edition of Business Angola.

21/04/2021

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Crews work to extinguish wildfire on Table Mountain

Fire crews worked for a third day to extinguish a wildfire on the slopes of Cape Town's Table Mountain on Tuesday, as the city came to terms with what officials have described as one of the area's worst blazes in years

20/04/2021

Climate

New climate-resistant coffee bean discovery has ‘superior flavour’

A heat-tolerant, drought-resistant species of coffee has been rediscovered by experts.

20/04/2021

Chad

Chadian president killed after 30 years in power, military announces

Idriss Deby was killed on Tuesday on the battlefield in a fight against rebels, the country's top military commander said.

20/04/2021

Rwanda

Rwanda genocide report: France 'did nothing to stop' massacres

Former French President Francois Mitterrand and his administration had knowledge of preparations for the massacres — yet kept supporting the government, the report says.

19/04/2021

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Cape Town wildfire spreads to university campus

Helicopters drop water bombs in a bid to quell a wildfire near Cape Town's Table Mountain which has spread to University of Cape Town campus and engulfed numerous buildings.

19/04/2021

Egypt

At least 11 killed and officials arrested in Egypt train crash

Four wagons of a passenger train bound for Cairo ran off the railway at the city of Banha in Qalyubia province this afternoon, killing at least 11 people and injuring scores of others.

18/04/2021

Cry Like A Boy

Podcast | The grim fate of migrants returning to Guinea

At 18, Mamadou Alpha went on a dangerous adventure from Guinea to cross several countries and the Meditteranean to get to Europe. But luck wasn’t on his side, he was forcefully returned home empty-handed. He now says this fate is worse than death.

15/04/2021

Angola

The two family-owned businesses in Angola beating the pandemic

In partnership with Governo de Angola

Dulce and Ana have several things in common. They are both entrepreneurs, they work with their mums and they're expanding their businesses even during the pandemic. Their family-owned businesses sell quality Angolan products proving to be very popular.

14/04/2021

Egypt

Fuel tanker's crash with a bus kills 20 in Egypt

20 people have been killed and 3 injured in a road accident involving a fuel tanker and bus in southern Egypt.

14/04/2021

Travel News

Uncovering lost Egyptian city 'the most important discovery' since King Tut's tomb

Archaeologists have found the largest ancient city ever discovered in Egypt, dating back more than 3000 years, just prior to the reign of the most famous pharoah, Tutankhamun. Dubbed 'The Rise of Aten', the city was found during excavation works near the southern city of Luxor.

14/04/2021

Egypt

Train driver's negligence caused deadly Egypt crash, prosecutors say

Prosecutors allege the driver and his assistant were not in the train's cabin when it collided with another passenger train in Egypt last month.

12/04/2021

Egypt

Ancient city uncovered in Egypt

Egyptian archeologists have unearthed a three thousand year-old lost city complete with mud brick houses, artifacts and tools from the times of the pharaohs.

10/04/2021

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Egyptian mission discovers mortuary city in Luxor

Egyptian archeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old lost city, complete with mud brick houses, artifacts, and tools from pharaonic times.

10/04/2021

Cry Like A Boy

How a small Cape Verde island became an LGTBI oasis in Africa

In the port city of Mindelo in Cape Verde, lives Tchinda Andrade, a trans woman in her thirties. Wearing a short skirt, she sells her Brasilian fritters in the streets in broad daylight. No one insults or attacks her #CryLikeaBoy

08/04/2021

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Rwanda Genocide Anniversary

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame on Wednesday commemorated the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, during a solemn ceremony in Kigali.

07/04/2021

Business Series

Discover the Angolan wilderness that's teeming with biodiversity

In partnership with Governo de Angola

A crew of National Geographic scientists, explorers and filmmakers made it their mission to traverse the many Angolan rivers that supply water to Botswana’s world-famous Okavango Delta. Here's what they discovered...

07/04/2021

Nature

First ever images of mysterious ‘Walter's duiker’ captured in the wild

Is this small African antelope the world's most secretive mammal?

07/04/2021

Destinations

National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation opens fully to the public

Visitors browse exhibits at Egypt's new National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC) in the Fustat district of Old Cairo, after the museum opened fully to the public.

05/04/2021

Cry Like A Boy

Cry like a Boy: because being tough all the time hurts

From Burundi to Lesotho, travel with us to Africa to discover the stories of men suffering from pressure to fulfil traditional male roles, and those defying centuries of stereotypes. The hashtag is #CryLikeABoy

05/04/2021