A UK auction house has cancelled the sale of a shield looted from Ethiopia by British soldiers in the 19th Century. The move came after a complaint from the Ethiopian government..
The artefact was taken during the battle of Magdala in 1868 from what was then known as Abyssinia.
An opposition leader in Chad has been killed during a shootout with security forces, a state prosecutor says.
Yaya Dillo’s death comes after the government blamed him for a deadly attack on the country’s security agency. He denied the accusation.
When Ali Hassan Mwinyi became Tanzania’s president in 1985, few expected the shy, unassuming politician, who died on Thursday aged…
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