KIGALI, Oct 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Unidentified gunmen killed eight people and injured 18 during an overnight attack in northern Rwanda near the border with DR Congo, police said Saturday. The attack took place on Friday in Musanze district’s Kinigi sector which attracts tourists because of its Volcanoes National Park and…

ADDIS ABABA, Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Members of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group chanted and waved flags as they gathered for the first time tocelebrate their thanksgiving festival in the capital — a city that prominentmembers of the group claim belongs to them. The annual Irreecha festival of the Oromo people…

RABAT, Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A member of Morocco’s governing coalition said it would join the opposition ahead of a reshuffle requested by King Mohammed VI, citing disagreements with its partners in government. Senior Progress and Socialism Party (PPS) members, announcing the decision following a majority vote of the party’s…

BRAZZAVILLE, Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Republic of Congo launched a campaign to distribute anti-malaria bed nets to more than 90 percent of the nation’s households. More than three million insecticide-treated nets will be distributed over the five-day operation, initiated by Prime Minister Clement Mouamba in the capital Brazzaville. The…

TRIPOLI, Oct 5 (NNN-Xinhua) — The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Friday warned against the east-based rebel army’s attempts to divide the country’s national oil company. “The UNSMIL is alarmed by indications that parallel, unrecognized authorities in Libya are threatening the operation and management of Libya’s National…

TRIPOLI, Oct 5 (NNN-Xinhua) — The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that 165 illegal migrants have been voluntarily deported from Libya to Nigeria. “Our team assisted 165 stranded Nigerian migrants in Libya, mostly women and children, to return to their homeland by a charter flight departing from Sebha airport…