Nineteen people were killed on Monday when a bus and a truck collided in northern Senegal, firefighters said, eight days after a smashup between two buses left 40 dead.
Rescue teams in Cape Verde have saved 88 migrants adrift in a canoe, but two others aboard the vessel have died, the national press agency Inforpress reported.
Dodging the kind of meteorite strike that forced Russia to plan a space station rescue mission is nearly impossible, yet the greater threat to spacecraft is actually the man-made debris in orbit, experts say.
Major international fashion brands are operating unfairly toward Bangladesh clothing suppliers, with some allegedly paying for items below the cost of production, according to a study recently published.
It began as a form of music chanted at wakes to comfort mourners -- now it is part of Cameroon's cultural mainstream, and a powerful form of expression for its frustrated youth.
After anemic sales in 2022, the German auto industry association said Wednesday that it expected only a mild recovery for the domestic car market this year.
Fifteen feature films are up for the top prize in the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in February, the organizer said Friday.
It was an anomaly detected in the storm of a nuclear reactor so puzzling that physicists hoped it would shine a light on dark matter, one of the universe's greatest mysteries. However new research has definitively ruled out that this strange measurement signaled the existence of a "sterile neutrino", a hypothetical particle that has long eluded scientists.
The U.S. ambassador to Sudan called on former rebel groups in the country to join an agreement aimed at restoring a civilian-led government.
Anti-apartheid activist Frene Ginwala, the speaker of South Africa's first democratic elected parliament -- and the first woman to hold the office -- has died aged 90, the country's presidency said on Friday.
The Polisario movement, which seeks independence in disputed Western Sahara, meets Friday for leadership elections in the shadow of mounting tensions between host Algeria and Morocco, which controls most of the territory.
The world's political and business elites will gather for the annual Davos summit next week to promote "cooperation in a fragmented world", with war in Ukraine, the climate crisis and global trade tensions high on the agenda.
UN Peacekeeping force MONUSCO's code of conduct strictly prohibits sexual relations with children, as well as paying for sex. The situation is common enough for the UN mission to introduce measures such as paying school fees for the abandoned children of UN soldiers.
South Africa's debt-laden power utility Eskom on Friday defended as a "tough decision" a steep tariff increase despite record power cuts that have angered the nation.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on Thursday named an independent prosecutor to probe President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents.
The foreign ministers of France and Germany said Thursday there can be no reconciliation without justice in Ethiopia as they called for the establishment of a transitional justice mechanism to punish abuses that occurred during the country's conflict.
CIA chief William Burns has met Libya's interim premier weeks after the authorities handed the United States a suspect in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the Tripoli-based government said Thursday.
The United States announced Thursday it was offering a reward of up to $10 million for a man described as the "terror mastermind" of a bloody hotel attack in Kenya four years ago.
Morocco announced Thursday that it was cancelling its participation in the African Nations Championship, blaming host Algeria, the kingdom's neighbor and arch-rival, for closing its airspace to Moroccan flights.
UPDATED TO INCLUDE PRESIDENT BIDEN COMMENTS: Consumer inflation in the United States slipped in December to the lowest level in over a year, government data showed on Thursday, signaling the worst of red-hot price increases may be over.
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