Guinea concert stampede kills 24

A stampede among jobseekers taking a recruitment test in the national stadium in the Nigerian capital Abuja leaves many dead and injured.

Nigeria's interior minister rejects calls for him to step down after he blamed job-seekers for their deaths in Saturday's stampede.

A mouse is blamed for triggering a stampede in a mosque in the Moroccan city of Casablanca which left more than 80 people injured, officials say.

Eleven people have been killed in a stampede after a religious service in a stadium in Zimbabwe, police say.

Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric, the grand mufti, says Thursday's stampede that killed more than 700 people was "beyond human control".

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A section of graduates wait to enter the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam to participate in a written interview to fill only 70 job vacancies at Immigration Department. An appalling rate of unemployment in the country became vivid yesterday after over 10,000 ...
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A student dies in a Kenyan stampede after a blast mistaken for a terrorist attack, as activists condemn calls to close a Somali refugee camp.

Mr Bashiru Ali Ngete arrived home in Dar es Salaam yesterday, having survived last week’s deadly stampede in Mecca by a whisker.He narrated to The Citizen a chilling tale of how he survived the tragedy in which nearly 800 people of various nationalities died.

Stampede death toll increases
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THE number of Tanzanians who died in recent stampede at Mina, some five kilometers off Mecca, has increased to eleven after three more people were confirmed dead. View Comments. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said in a ...