WASHINGTON— The United States on Wednesday opposed a Palestinian push for full membership at the United Nations, with Washington saying it backed statehood but after negotiations with Israel.
UNITED NATIONS—A growing number of children caught up in armed conflicts around the globe are being denied access to critical humanitarian aid, a United Nations official warned Wednesday, as relief operations come under attack or are blocked by governments.
JOHANNESBURG—South Africa's parliament speaker resigned on Wednesday, weeks after her home was raided in a graft probe likely to hurt the ruling African National Congress heading into May elections.
LOME— Togo's government on Wednesday postponed legislative elections due to be held April 20 until an unspecified date, shortly after lawmakers approved highly contested constitutional reforms.
BERLIN—The Botswanan president on Tuesday threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in a dispute over the import of hunting trophies.
CAPE TOWN—South Africa on Wednesday laid out plans to phase out the captive breeding of lions for hunting purposes as the country moves to ban the controversial business.
TAMBOUL, SUDAN—Elon Musk's Starlink satellite system has become a lifeline for some in Sudan where the internet has gone down regularly since war erupted last April between Sudan's army and paramilitary force.
NAIROBI—Kenya's largest referral hospital on Tuesday said it would dispose of more than 500 bodies, most of them children, that lay unclaimed.
CONAKRY—Guinea's main opposition parties and civil society associations on Tuesday demanded the country's military leaders reinstate the timetable for the return to civilian rule before December 31.
PORT SUDAN—A drone attack killed 12 people and injured 30 on Tuesday in Atbara in northeast Sudan, a city that had until now been spared the country's brutal warfare, a medic and witnesses told AFP.
KAMPALA—Uganda's Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected a bid to overturn a controversial anti-gay law that is considered one of the toughest in the world.
NAIROBI—South Sudan was expected to hold elections next December. But persistent disputes have left key provisions of the deal unfulfilled and transition timelines repeatedly delayed.
BENI, DRC—At least 10 civilians died on Tuesday during an attack in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local sources said, blaming the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel group.
JOHANNESBURG—South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday filed an appeal against a decision by electoral officials barring him from running in elections as tensions mount ahead of the May polls.
WASHINGTON—A digital tool considered vital in tracking viral falsehoods, CrowdTangle will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year, a move researchers fear will disrupt efforts to detect an expected firehose of political misinformation.
TUNIS—The key ingredient for traditional sweets served to mark the end of the Muslim holy month is now being rationed to one to two kilograms per customer per week.
GAZA STRIP, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES —A US-based charity group on Tuesday blamed Israel for a strike that killed seven of its staff unloading food brought by sea to the war-torn Gaza Strip to help alleviate looming famine.
NAIROBI, KENYA — Human Rights Watch said Tuesday there was an "urgent need" to pursue the remaining leaders of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, five days before commemorations begin marking the 30th anniversary.
JOHANNESBURG—A South African high court on Tuesday rejected an urgent application by the graft-accused National Assembly speaker who is under investigation, paving the way for her possible arrest, in a fresh blow to the ruling ANC ahead of polls.
DAKAR— Bassirou Diomaye Faye was sworn in as Senegal's youngest president on Tuesday pledging reforms, including national reconciliation, easing a cost-of-living crisis and fighting corruption.
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