LIBREVILLE - At least two people have died and 28 are missing after a small ferry foundered off the Gabon coast, a port official told AFP on Thursday.
KIKWIT, DRC - Fifteen people were killed in attacks in western DRC this week, local officials said Thursday, in a flare-up of violence in the region after weeks of calm.
HERZOGENAURACH, GERMANY - Sportswear maker Adidas says it is still pondering what to do with its massive inventory of Kanye West's "Yeezy" items now that the company has severed ties with the controversial entertainer.
OUAGADOUGOU - The French charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Wednesday it would resume operations in Burkina Faso that it suspended nearly three weeks earlier after two employees were killed by suspected jihadists.
DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan vowed Wednesday to restore competitive politics in the country and jump start a stalled process to review the constitution, long a demand of the opposition.
LOUISVILLE - Police in Kentucky use excessive force, conduct illegal searches and have called Black people "monkeys," a US Justice Department probe found Wednesday, following the botched March 2020 raid that killed Breonna Taylor.
NEW YORK - US auto safety officials are probing Tesla after the steering wheel on its cars completely detached in two newly delivered vehicles, according to a document reviewed Wednesday by AFP.
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden warned Wednesday that the rights of women and girls are under attack "around the world," specifically pointing to actions from Afghanistan, Iran and Russia in a statement on International Women's Day.
TUNIS - Tunisian civil society groups on Wednesday accused the interior minister of incitement after he said some journalists, activists, politicians, business people and union members were traitors.
Prosecutors in the trial of six people accused of murdering Italy's DRC ambassador in 2021 requested the death penalty Wednesday during an indictment hearing in the capital Kinshasa.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reaffirmed their countries' close military ties Wednesday, Sisi's office said, during the Cairo leg of Austin's regional tour.
Civic activists in Zimbabwe are voicing fears of voting confusion and irregularities after an analysis of electoral boundaries redrawn ahead of a national vote showed some wards to be located in Antarctica.
The US trade deficit widened in January on a pickup in imports, to mark the biggest gap in three months, according to government data released on Wednesday.
UN chief Antonio Guterres said in Kyiv Wednesday that it was crucial to extend the international accord that allowed grain exports to resume from war-torn Ukraine.
US employers stepped up their pace of hiring in February, payroll firm ADP said Wednesday, in a further indication that more effort may be needed to cool the world's biggest economy.
Women were taking to the streets from Kabul to Bangkok on Wednesday to mark International Women's Day and defend rights that are coming under increasing attack.
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday praised Ukrainian women on International Women's Day for taking a central role in defending their country against Russia's invasion.
The UN rights chief criticized Wednesday a British draft law that would outlaw asylum claims by anyone arriving in the country illegally, warning it would violate international law.
The United States' candidate to head the World Bank, Ajay Banga, on Wednesday called for a revamp of the development model to better meet the challenge of climate change.
ANTANANARIVO — The death toll from Cyclone Freddy's second coming to Madagascar climbed to eight on Tuesday, as the storm strengthened while moving towards Mozambique, authorities said.
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