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Thirteen people were killed and 98 injured when a passenger train carrying about 250 people partially derailed in southern Mexico’s Oaxaca state, authorities said. The Mexican navy, which operates the rail line, said the locomotive left the tracks during a trip through the region. The navy initially reported 20 injured but later updated the toll to 98 injured and 13 dead. President Claudia Sheinbaum said she directed the secretary of the navy and other senior officials to travel to the scene and assist families affected by…

At least 17 pupils have been killed and another 13 seriously injured after a fire ravaged through the dormitory of a boarding school north of Nairobi, police said Friday. An investigation has been launched into the deadly primary school blaze, and Kenya’s president has vowed that those responsible for the tragic incident “will be held to account”.

Fifteen people have been killed in an attack in western Niger less than two weeks after 33 people were killed by suspected jihadists in the same area, officials said on Wednesday. The Interior Ministry said in a…

A dozen tourists, Russians and a Lithuanian, were arrested just over a week ago in the Chadian Sahara, near Faya-Largeau, in the north of the country. They were returned to the capital Ndjamena manu militari, and were admitted to an exclusive hotel pending the completion of the ongoing investigation to determine the reasons for their presence in an area considered "red".…

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Bakata Katanga phenomenon continues. On a regular basis, these militiamen with a presumed separatist tendency are making intrusions in some cities in the former province of Katanga. They claim that they are fighting for the restoration of the independent state of Katanga, which was proclaimed in July 1960. Several dozen of them were arrested in April by the police with the help of the population. Imprisoned in a barracks in Lubumbashi, 82 soldiers from two different…