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Two people were killed and more than 80 wounded in a grenade attack in Madagascar’s capital on Sunday during the country’s national day celebrations, in what the president called “an act of terrorism”.

  A Brit being held in Kenya over the death of a woman at his house said she shot herself while taking a ‘selfie’ .

EgyptAir flight MS804 disappeared over the eastern Mediterranean Sea while flying overnight from Paris to Cairo. The Airbus A320 had 66 passengers and crew on board. Search and rescue teams from Egypt and Greece have gone to the last recorded location.

Ethiopia has launched the construction of a blood transfusion centre to cater for approximately 26 million people.

Opposition parties in South Africa want the country’s leader President Jacob Zuma to resign following the High Court judgment which reinstated 783 corruption and fraud charges against him.

Barefoot, wearing traditional costumes including animal hide skirts and elaborately beaded headdresses, the contestants strutted the stage before Ghanaian Rebecca Asamoah was crowned the first Miss Africa Continent.