The dominant services sector in the United States bounced back in January after contracting in December, survey data showed on Friday, helped by stronger business activity and new orders.
A proposed lucrative sponsorship deal between South Africa and a top English football club that sparked a two-day firestorm will not be backed by President Cyril Ramaphosa, his spokesman said Friday.
With just three weeks to go before Nigeria's presidential election, major cash and fuel shortages are stirring up public anger and tensions during campaigning for the country's top post.
US job gains surged unexpectedly last month as unemployment slipped to its lowest rate in more than five decades, government data showed Friday, despite efforts to cool economic activity.
East African leaders are expected to travel to Burundi on Saturday for a summit on the conflict in eastern DRC, officials said on Friday.
Already struggling without electricity for hours a day, many South Africans are now having to do also without water, as power outages batter the supply system.
Video cartoons circulating on social media have shed light on a Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sapping France's influence among its African allies, analysts say.
Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union accused President Kais Saied Friday of targeting it to distract the public from record low election turnout and the "total failure" of his economic policies.
A UN expert on Thursday called for reforms in Sudan's security services and accountability, during a first visit to the country reeling from turmoil since a 2021 military power grab.
The European Parliament voted Thursday in support of banning foreign funding for political advertisements to lower the risk of outside interference in EU elections next year.
Ethiopia's ancient Orthodox Church has accused the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of interfering in its affairs as tensions mount over a breakaway group of bishops.
Burkina Faso's four-month-old military junta has set down a blueprint for "stabilizing" the jihadist-torn country and enable the return to civilian rule, according to the plan seen by AFP on Thursday.
A former defense minister in Cameroon has been handed a 30-year jail term for embezzling public funds, his lawyer said on Thursday.
UPDATED WITH PUTIN, PESKOV COMMENTS: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday warned that Russia was building up its troops to take "revenge" on the West nearly a year into Moscow's invasion.
A Moroccan court has ruled in favor of the extradition of a Saudi Shiite from a family of activists, detained since mid-January in the North African kingdom, his lawyer said Thursday.
Nigeria's central bank on Thursday ordered financial institutions to distribute newly designed bills over the counter in a bid to reduce massive queues at cash dispensers.
The dismembered body of a five-year-old albino boy has been found in eastern DRC's South Kivu province, officials said Thursday, after a suspected occult killing.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was in Rabat on Thursday to reset a "strategic partnership" despite criticism from within his left-wing government that it has caved in to Moroccan pressure.
Ugandan authorities announced the removal of a rainbow painting from a children's park following an uproar among parents who alleged that the "satanic" design promoted homosexuality in the largely Christian country.
Gunmen wielding explosives bombed a local election office and a police station in southeast Nigeria, killing a teenage boy and destroying voting materials, officials said, weeks before the country's presidential ballot.
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