MALINDA, KENYA — His forehead beaded with sweat, Titus Katana has been digging for days to find the remains of victims of a Kenyan starvation cult that once counted him as a follower.
CAIRO - A statue of Buddha has been discovered in Egypt's ancient seaport of Berenice on the Red Sea, shedding light on trade ties with India under the Roman empire.
PARIS— Deaths from hunger are on the rise in Africa because of droughts worsened by climate change and conflict, United Nations officials and non-governmental organizations said this week.
BERLIN - Long overshadowed by World War II and the Holocaust, a colonial-era genocide committed by Germany in Namibia has been brought to the big screen, shining a light on the country's neglected crimes.
VATICAN CITY - Women and lay people will be able to vote in the next general assembly of bishops, the Vatican announced Wednesday, in a symbolic change for the Catholic Church.
PARIS - Astronomers said on April 26 that for the first time they have confirmed what ignites quasars, the brightest and most powerful objects in the universe, which put galaxies in their "death throes."
STOCKHOLM - Music streaming giant Spotify has reported that it had 515 million monthly active users as of the end of March, beating expectations, as its operating loss deepened.
LOME — Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe revealed that approximately 40 soldiers and 100 civilians have died in his nation’s northern region resulting from the war against jihadists.
SFAX, TUNISIA — So many migrants risking the dangerous sea crossing from Tunisia to Europe have drowned that morgues and hospitals in the key launchpad city of Sfax are full, officials said Friday.
KHARTOUM — Fighting continued Thursday in Sudan’s capital Khartoum between the Sudan Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), despite an agreement between the rivals to extend the 72-hour cease-fire deal that was brokered by the U.S. and was set to expire last night.
NEW YORK - Longtime US talk show host Jerry Springer, whose program became a symbol of low brow television with its on-air fights, swearing and infidelity revelations, has died at the age of 79, US media reported Thursday.
NAIROBI — Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda have launched a joint bid for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations, which would bring the continental showpiece to East Africa for the first time.
BAMAKO - Mali and its neighbor Algeria on Thursday said they wished to revive a 2015 peace deal between Bamako and northern Malian rebels that today lies in limbo, raising fears of renewed violence.
ABUJA - Three humanitarian workers and two contractors have been abducted in northeast Nigeria where the military is fighting a jihadist insurgency, aid officials said Thursday.
WASHINGTON - US economic growth lost steam in the first quarter this year, said the Commerce Department on Thursday, as the possibility of a mild recession brews while consumer spending weakens.
PARIS - The devastating drought that has struck the Horn of Africa could not have occurred without global warming, according to a new report released Thursday from an international team of climate scientists.
TUNIS - President Kais Saied has called for the revival of Tunisia's phosphate industry, suggesting he will seek alternative sources of revenue that would allow the country to do without a foreign bailout.
LONGONI, FRANCE - French authorities on Thursday razed an informal settlement on the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte after overnight unrest sparked by government plans to clear slums and send illegal migrants back to the neighboring Comoros.
NAIROBI — Kenya authorities said Thursday they had arrested another pastor over suspected deaths at his church as police widen an investigation following dozens of deaths linked to a cult leader.
UPDATED WITH U.S. SECRETARY BLINKEN COMMENTS ABOUT TRUCE EXTENSION: KHARTOUM - The Sudanese army pounded paramilitaries in the capital Khartoum with air strikes Thursday while deadly fighting flared in Darfur as the conflict entered a 13th day despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire.
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