MONROVIA—Liberia's Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly endorsed the establishment of a long-awaited war crimes court, marking a significant step towards accountability more than two decades after the end of a devastating civil conflict.
NAIROBI—Hundreds of hospital doctors joined a demonstration in the streets of the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Tuesday as a nationwide strike by medics neared its fourth week.
RED SEA STATE, SUDAN— At least three drones struck Sudanese army targets Tuesday in the eastern state of Gedaref, which had previously been largely spared the country's devastating conflict, military and security sources said.
WASHINGTON— The International Monetary Fund announced Monday that it had approved the latest tranche of financing for Ivory Coast, worth more than $570 million, following a staff visit to the West African country.
GENEVA—One year since the conflict in Sudan erupted, thousands of desperate people are still fleeing the country daily "as if the emergency had started yesterday," the UN said Tuesday.
LAGOS—Faced with sky-high inflation, low salaries and an overstretched healthcare system, doctors and nurses are leaving Nigeria in their thousands every year for better opportunities abroad.
VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis on Monday met relatives of several Israelis taken hostage by Hamas in the October 7 attacks.
RIYADH—Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest shrines, announced Monday that the holiday of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the Ramadan fast will begin on Wednesday.
PARIS—A non-governmental organisation on Monday sought answers over the deaths of two French officers killed in the early days of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, a legal complaint seen by AFP showed.
JOHANNESBURG—Judges in South Africa will on Tuesday rule on whether former president Jacob Zuma will be allowed to appear on the ballot in May elections.
Goma, DRC—A mortar attack in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed three Tanzanian soldiers and wounded three others, the Southern African force deployed in the region said Monday.
PARIS —An "exceptional" dust cloud from the Sahara is choking parts of Europe, the continent's climate monitor said on Monday, causing poor air quality and coating windows and cars in grime.
GOMA, DRC—Rebel groups are making new gains in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after Indian U.N. troops abandoned positions near a regional capital, according to an internal U.N. document seen by Agence France-Presse.
MAPUTO—A makeshift ferry boat has sunk off the north coast of Mozambique killing 98 people, including children, authorities said Monday, raising an earlier death toll.
JERUSALEM—Israel’s military says it has withdrawn its forces from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, wrapping up a key phase in its ground offensive against the Hamas militant group. But defense officials say troops are merely regrouping as the army prepares to move into Hamas’ last stronghold, Rafah.
AGBOVILLE, IVORY COAST—Thousands of people turned out Saturday to see Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo announce his bid to return to office even though he is ineligible.
RED SEA STATE, SUDAN— Sudanese paramilitary forces have killed at least 28 people in an attack on a village south of the capital Khartoum, a local activists' committee said on Sunday.
KIGALI—Rwanda on Sunday paid solemn tribute to genocide victims, 30 years after a vicious campaign orchestrated by Hutu extremists tore apart the country, as neighbours turned on each other in one of the bloodiest massacres of the 20th century.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes in a book-length interview. The revelations are contained in “The Successor: My Memories of Benedict XVI.”
KIGALI—His supporters hail Rwandan President Paul Kagame for his role in ending the 1994 genocide and bringing peace to a traumatized nation, but critics accuse him of ruling through fear and repression.
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