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More than 40 people, predominantly children, drowned when an overloaded vessel sank in northwestern Nigeria's Sokoto State. The incident underscores persistent safety hazards on the nation's inland waterways.
A coordinated terrorist assault in western Niger's Tillabery region claimed the lives of 16 soldiers and wounded 23 others, as armed groups continue destabilizing the Sahel's fragile security landscape.
The UN migration agency has flagged funeral practices as a critical driver of Ebola transmission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the outbreak has claimed over 828 lives and expanded by 70 per cent in recent weeks.