BRAZZAVILLE - Three opposition parties in Congo-Brazzaville have joined forces ahead of the next elections, for which veteran hardline leader Denis Sassou Nguesso is a potential candidate.
ALGIERS - Algeria's parliament on Thursday passed a law further restricting press freedom in the North African country by tightening media ownership rules and preventing journalists from protecting sources.
LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning US actor Jamie Foxx has been hospitalized with an unspecified medical complication but is in recovery, his family says.
RABAT - Three defendants accused of repeatedly raping a Moroccan girl pleaded not guilty Thursday as the case went to appeal, after their light sentences shocked the country.
WASHINGTON - Countries must do more to avert the costly consequences of growing global trade fragmentation, and help avert a "second Cold War," the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) managing director, Kristalina Georgieva, said Thursday.
TRIPOLI - Libyan security forces said Thursday they had arrested a second US citizen for alleged Christian proselytising in the North African Muslim nation.
PARIOS - Hundreds of thousands took to the streets across France on Thursday to protest against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms, in a final day of demonstrations before a crucial court decision on the legislation.
HARARE - Nelson Chamisa, a 45-year-old lawyer and pastor, will be Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's official opponent for a second time in an upcoming crunch vote, the opposition party confirmed on Thursday.
ADDIS ABABA - Calm has returned to Ethiopia's protest-hit region of Amhara, residents told AFP on Thursday, after several days of public demonstrations against government plans to dismantle regional military forces.
UPDATED WITH TRUMP ARRIVAL FOR DEPOSITION: NEW YORK - Donald Trump is back in New York Thursday to answer questions in a civil case that accuses the ex-president and three of his children of business fraud.
LONDON - A 19-year-old appeared in court on Thursday charged with the manslaughter of four people who died trying to cross the Channel to the UK in a small boat.
ROME - Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Thursday that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should approve an initial, unconditional bailout package for Tunisia, with further payments dependent on reforms.
MEDJEZ EL BAB, TUNISIA - A severe drought in North Africa has left Tunisian farmers bracing for a catastrophically poor harvest, imperiling food security in the cash-strapped country.
KHARTOUM - Sudan's regular army warned Thursday that the country was at a "dangerous... turning point" after paramilitaries deployed more fighters in major cities amid a deepening rift within the military government.
MOSCOW - Russia delivered a new warning to the West over a grain deal with Ukraine on Thursday, saying a number of conditions must be met for Moscow to extend it beyond May 18.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns of more severe famine in Somalia due to climate change, adding during a press conference in Mogadishu on Wednesday that "between now and June, 6.5 million Somalis are expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity."
CASABLANCA - The lawyer for an 11-year-old Moroccan girl, whose rapists received light sentences that outraged the country, on Wednesday urged authorities to review laws protecting minors.
DAKAR - Jihadists affiliated to the Islamic State group (known as "DAESH" in Arabic) have taken Tidermene in Mali, further isolating the regional capital Menaka, officials and witnesses told AFP Wednesday, in a region that has fallen almost entirely under their control.
JOHANNESBURG - Police in South Africa said six people were killed on Wednesday in a shooting near Cape Town, where local authorities blamed power cuts affecting security cameras for hampering the investigation.
LONDON - Prince Harry will attend the coronation in London of his father King Charles III but without his wife Meghan, Buckingham Palace said on Wednesday.
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