THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - Russia's arrest of a US reporter shows that threats to journalists worldwide are surging, Amanda Bennett, head of USAGM, the US agency that oversees government-funded media including Voice of America, said Friday.
NAIROBI - The head of the Athletics Integrity Unit warned on Friday that the international anti-doping body was stepping up its investigations and testing in Kenya.
GENEVA - Mozambique is going through its worst cholera outbreak in more than a decade in the wake of Cyclone Freddy, the World Health Organization said Friday.
WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve's favored measure of inflation slowed last month, providing some much-needed relief as it attempts to balance tackling higher prices with banking concerns.
UPDATED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: GOMA, DRC - Ugandan troops operating as part of an East African regional military force entered the eastern DRC border town of Bunagana on Friday, an army officer and witnesses said.
JOHANNESBURG - Plans to build wind farms next to a South African national park have riled wildlife activists who worry the turbines will ruin the landscape and impact elephants.
NAIROBI - US biotech company Moderna has finalized an agreement to set up a $500 million mRNA vaccine facility in Nairobi, Kenyan President William Ruto said Thursday.
NAIROBI - The Ethiopian government on Thursday announced it is scrapping criminal charges against leaders of the rebel Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), in line with a peace deal in its northern region.
RABAT - Eleven people, mostly agricultural workers, have died in a road accident in Morocco, the health ministry said Thursday.
GENEVA - UN rights chief Volker Turk decried Thursday surging violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, with rampant sexual violence and more than 1,300 people, including over 100 children, killed since October.
NAIROBI - Food aid rations for refugees in Burundi, mostly Congolese fleeing violence in eastern DRC, will be halved from April 1, the World Food Program (WFP) announced Thursday, citing a lack of funding.
MALABO, EQUATORIAL GUINEA - The death toll from an outbreak of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea has reached nine, the health ministry told AFP on Thursday amid World Health Organization estimates the real toll is double that.
NAIROBI - A Kenyan court on Thursday released on bail motor rally driver Maxine Wahome, who has been in police custody on murder charges.
UPDATED WITH NIANG ATTORNEY STATEMENTS: DAKAR - A Senegal court on Thursday handed a two-month suspended sentence to opposition leader Ousmane Sonko after a libel trial his lawyers said will not rule him out of the 2024 presidential election.
BRUSSELS - Europe's top rights body on Thursday blasted the "inhuman" treatment of migrants who were brutally turned away at its borders, especially the EU's external frontier.
WASHINGTON - Outspoken Rwandan government critic Paul Rusesabagina, whose efforts to save people during the 1994 genocide inspired the Hollywood film "Hotel Rwanda," has arrived in the United States after being freed from prison, the White House said Wednesday.
LILONGWE - The death toll from Cyclone Freddy in Malawi is slated to surpass 1,200 after authorities said Thursday hundreds of missing people would be declared dead as hopes of finding survivors fade.
UPDATED WITH ADDITION INFORMATION ON CONDITION: ROME - Pope Francis's health is improving after spending a night in hospital with a respiratory infection, the Vatican announced Thursday, saying the 86-year-old had eaten breakfast, read the newspapers and even done some work.
The European Union reached a deal Thursday to almost double the share of renewables in the 27-nation bloc's energy consumption by 2030 amid efforts to become carbon neutral and ditch Russian fossil fuels.
ACCRA - Before departing Ghana's capital, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced a more than $1 billion initiative to improve women's economic empowerment in Africa on Wednesday at the end of the first leg of a three-nation trip to the continent.
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