King of the Belgians Philippe and his wife Queen Mathilde arrived Thursday in Pretoria, South Africa where they were greeted by a guard of honor at the Union Building before meeting President Cyril Ramaphosa. This is the first visit to the southern African nation by the Belgian monarchy. "South Africa and Belgium have a longstanding bilateral tie. It is our responsibility to build on this foundation and to create more opportunities for our two countries to work together," Ramaphosa said in a tweet. .
PRETORIA - Belgium on Thursday called on South Africa to use its relationship with Russia to help end the war in Ukraine, during a state visit by the Belgian king to Pretoria.
LONDON - A jury in London on Thursday found Nigeria's former deputy Senate president guilty of plotting to harvest a street trader's kidney for his sick daughter, in the first UK case of its kind.
MOSCOW - Russia ex-president Dmitry Medvedev warns that attempts to arrest Vladimir Putin abroad after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant against him would be seen by Moscow as a "declaration of war."
ABIDJAN - Twenty-six supporters of Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo who received two-year jail terms following an anti-government protest have been given suspended sentences on appeal.
NAIROBI - The Ethiopian government said Thursday it has appointed a senior official in the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) as head of the interim Tigray regional government after a peace deal ended a brutal two-year conflict.
LONDON - UK government leaders have appealed for relatives of one of the country's last black veterans of World War II to come forward after he died alone and apparently childless.
OUAGADOUGOU - An army convoy has delivered desperately-needed supplies to a northern Burkina Faso city that has been blockaded by jihadists for months, locals and security sources told AFP Wednesday.
THE HAGUE - Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev reportedly talked about targeting The Hague with a hypersonic missile as a reprisal for the Putin warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, according to Dutch media.
WASHINGTON - TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will Thursday staunchly deny on Capitol Hill allegations by US lawmakers that the hugely popular video-sharing app had ever, or ever would, share data with the Chinese government.
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's growth is set decelerate sharply this year due to power cuts and the economy risks stagnation, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Wednesday.
NAIROBI - Kenya President William Ruto on Wednesday vowed to rein in "impunity" and sought to reassure investors in the wake of violent opposition protests against his government.
WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Wednesday that Tunisia urgently needs to reach a deal with the IMF, adding to dire EU warnings about the country's future.
NIAMEY - Niger's army said its troops had killed around 20 jihadists and arrested 83 others in an operation against militants on its southeastern border with Nigeria.
UNITED NATIONS HQ, NEW YORK - Billions of people experience water-related issues on a daily basis - from contaminated drinking water, to droughts and floods - with a UN report warning Tuesday that the risk of a global crisis is "imminent."
ALGIERS - Algeria will send its ambassador back to France soon, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said weeks after he withdrew the envoy following a diplomatic spat over a French-Algerian activist.
ABUJA - Nigeria's main opposition presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, who came second in last month's election, has filed a formal petition in court seeking to overturn the ballot won by the ruling party.
BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN - Four straight years of flooding, an unprecedented phenomenon linked to climate change, has swamped two-thirds of South Sudan but nowhere more dramatically than Bentiu, a northern city besieged by water.
UPDATED TO INCLUDE COMMENTS BY U.S. SECRETARY BLINKEN: KAMPALA - Amnesty International urged Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni Wednesday to reject a tough anti-gay bill passed by parliament, warning it was "a grave assault" on LGBTQ people.
WASHINGTON - The United States said Tuesday it does not see China as capable of being an impartial mediator between Moscow and Kyiv over the war in Ukraine.
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