NAIREOBI - Burundian authorities said Wednesday a search has been launched for former prime minister Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni, seven months after he was sacked in a high-level political purge.
BANGUI - A leading rebel group was behind the murder of nine Chinese gold miners in the Central African Republic last month, the justice minister said Wednesday, citing an investigation.
GENEVA - Rather than fixating on the impact of the world's soaring population, the world should look at women's reproductive rights to shore up "demographic resilience," the UN said Wednesday.
JOHANNESBURG - Moroccan armed forces club and former African champions, FAR Rabat will be the team to beat in the CAF Confederation Cup knockout stage this season.
LAGOS - A disinformation campaign is targeting Nigeria's election regulators and supreme court judges, who will have to rule on claims of vote rigging following a presidential ballot marred by delays and fraud accusations.
N'Djamena - Clashes between herders and farmers in southern Chad have left at least 22 people dead, authorities said Wednesday accusing rebels based in neighboring Central African Republic of igniting the trouble.
KANO - Eight Nigerian schoolgirls have escaped from kidnappers in northwest Kaduna State two weeks after they were abducted on their way to school, a government official said.
Tunis - Fifteen Tunisian migrants are missing after their boat sank in the Mediterranean during an attempt to reach Europe, authorities said Wednesday.
ROME - Italian minister Francesco Lollobrigida, one of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's closest allies, sparked outrage Tuesday by warning against the "ethnic replacement" of Italians by migrants.
HARARE - Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday vowed that general elections expected later this year will be free and fair - but also issued a warning to "rogue" civic society organizations during an independence day speech.
The head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Tuesday urged fighting factions in Sudan to provide access to health facilities, warning that "there're disturbing reports of some health facilities being looted and others being used for military purposes."
The Red Cross and the World Health Organization urge Tuesday Sudan's warring parties to guarantee humanitarian access for those in need, and for an end to attacks on healthcare, as the death toll in the fighting neared 200.
BRUSSELS - The European Union on Tuesday unveiled a 1.1-billion-euro ($1.2 billion) plan to help stave off cross-border hacking attacks as the threat from Russia grows.
JUBA - Nearly a quarter of South Sudan's population has been affected by years of unprecedented flooding, according to a report Tuesday by the UN Development Program and the government's relief and rehabilitation commission.
UPDATED WITH COMMENTS FROM UN UNSMIL REPRESENTATIVE: TRIPOLI - Libyan authorities have imposed "severe restrictions" on local and international civil society groups, obstructing their work in the war-scarred country, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.
CONAKRY - Guinea's junta is inspired by the Rwandan "model", it said Tuesday, during a visit by President Paul Kagame, one of the first by a foreign leader since a 2021 coup.
KANO - Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herders have killed 33 people in an attack on a farming village in northwest Nigeria's Kaduna state, where intercommunal herder-farmer violence is common, a local official told AFP Tuesday.
GENEVA - Swiss prosecutors said Tuesday that they had filed a crimes against humanity charge against Ousman Sonko, who was interior minister in the government of Gambia's former dictator Yahya Jammeh.
STRAUSBOURG, FRANCE - The European Parliament adopted sweeping climate measures on Tuesday aimed at massively cutting EU greenhouse emissions, including the introduction of a carbon border tax on imports.
UPDATED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: KHARTOUM - Fighting between the army and paramilitaries in Sudan has killed around 200 people and wounded 1,800, damaging hospitals and hampering aid after three days of urban warfare.
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