ABIDJAN—Gabon's transitional president on Thursday asked his Ivory Coast counterpart for help in getting African Union sanctions lifted, during a meeting in Abidjan.
Mali's ruling military junta on Thursday banned media coverage of political parties a day after suspending their activities, marking the latest crackdown on dissent in the West African nation.
Ghana's vice president and ruling party presidential candidate, Mahamudu Bawumia, on Thursday took a resolute stance against LGBTQ+ practices, asserting his opposition based on religious convictions with "no shades of grey."
PORT SUDAN—The United Nations says millions of displaced children in war-ridden Sudan are starving, and have been forced into marriage or become child soldiers and threatened with death.
GENEVA—The Sudanese people have had enough of the devastating conflict raging inside the country, UN investigators said Thursday as the fighting rolls on into a second year.
NIAMEY—A bomb blast has killed six Nigerien soldiers near the border with Mali, Niger's army said Thursday, adding around 10 "terrorists" were later killed in air strikes.
MORONI, COMOROS—Dozens of inmates are on the run after casually escaping from a poorly guarded Comoros prison through the main gate, authorities said on Thursday.
Some 3.4 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian help in Chad following the arrival of large numbers of Sudanese refugees fleeing war, a French NGO warned Wednesday.
GENEVA—The World Trade Organization said Wednesday that global trade should rebound this year from an unexpected slump in 2023, but warned that regional conflicts, geopolitical tensions and economic policy uncertainty risked darkening the picture.
BRUSSELS—The EU parliament on Wednesday adopted a sweeping reform of Europe's asylum policies that will both harden border procedures and force all the bloc's 27 nations to share responsibility.
BAMAKO—Mali's ruling military junta on Tuesday suspended all political activities, saying the move is needed to maintain public order.
ADDIS ABABA — An Ethiopian opposition official from the sensitive Oromia region was found shot dead on Wednesday, a few hours after being arrested by government forces, his party said.
ABUJA—Ten years after the Chibok schoolgirls' kidnapping, Nigeria is facing a resurgence of mass abductions.
HARARE—Zimbabwe's new gold-backed currency got off to a chaotic start with shops accepting only US dollars on Tuesday and vexed Zimbabweans queuing up outside banks for hours to access their savings.
JUBA—South Sudan plans to start voter registration in June for long-delayed elections due to take place at the end of the year, the head of the National Elections Commission said Tuesday.
DAKAR—Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Tuesday ordered his prime minister to draw up an urgent "action plan" to strengthen the country's flagging economy and finances, his office said in a statement.
LOME— The editor of a Togolese newspaper detained over a report about the death of a supporter of President Faure Gnassingbe was released on Tuesday, his lawyer said.
JOHANNESBURG—South African police said on Wednesday they have arrested six suspects for the murder of footballer Luke Fleurs, who played for popular Johannesburg club Kaizer Chiefs.
LOME—Togo has rescheduled legislative elections for April 29 after delaying the ballot over a highly contested constitutional reform, a government statement said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON—The British government has concluded it can keep sending weapons to Israel, Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Tuesday, rejecting pressure to suspend exports over charges of humanitarian violations in Gaza.
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