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Rescue workers and people search for bodies after landslides following heavy rains buried 40 homes in the mountainous district of Bulambuli, eastern Uganda, Thursday, Nov. 28. 2024. (AP Photo/Jean Watala)
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At least 15 killed and more than 100 missing after landslides bury homes in Uganda
Rescuers and ambulance cars wait on the beach for possible survivors after a boat sank at a harbor in Marsa Alam, Egypt.
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Three bodies recovered from capsized tourist boat off Egypt’s Red Sea coast
Veteran Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye stands in the dock at the courtroom where he was charged with inciting violence during a protest against soaring consumer prices, in Kampala, Uganda May 25, 2022.
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Ugandan opposition politician kidnapped in Kenya, wife says
Police officers and private security personnel stand by the opening of a reformed gold mineshaft where illegal miners are trapped in Stilfontein, South Africa, on November 15.
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Court orders South Africa police to end standoff with illegal miners
An aerial view of a mine shaft where an estimated 4000 illegal miners are trapped in a disused mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, on November 13, 2024.
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Hundreds of illegal miners holed up in disused shaft in South Africa. Here’s what we know
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‘He beat me up, and I ended up in hospital.’ Then she ended up on death row.
Police fired tear gas during a protest in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024.
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Nigeria court frees 119 protesters, some facing death penalty, after government drops charges
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At least 25 dead after boat ‘deliberately capsized by traffickers,’ says UN migration agency
Refugees live in makeshift mud and grass-thatch homes in Palabek Refugee Settlement in northern Uganda, East Africa.
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Lightning strike kills 14 at prayer service in Uganda refugee camp, police say

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