Boko Haram jihadists killed 17 herders and stole their cattle following clashes in the troubled northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, self-defense militia told AFP Monday.
The death toll from a fuel tanker explosion in a South African city east of Johannesburg has risen to 15, the health minister said Sunday.
French authorities plan to use an AI-assisted crowd control system to monitor people during the 2024 Paris Olympics, according to a draft law seen by AFP.
Germany's antitrust regulator said it had shelved an investigation into Google's News Showcase service, after the tech giant made "important adjustments" to ease competition concerns.
The year-end holiday season has given many Nigerians cause to ponder their country's deep security problems and worsening economy as the clock ticks to presidential elections two months away.
Men will take part in Olympic Games artistic swimming for the first time at the 2024 Paris Games with the decision hailed on Thursday as a "milestone" for the sport.
Online retail giant Amazon can potentially be held responsible when third-party sellers on its website misuse trademarks, the European Court of Justice said.
Germany appealed to the European Union on Thursday to consider regulating "abrupt" and "arbitrary" decisions at Twitter since Elon Musk's takeover.
Spain's public prosecutor closed an investigation Friday into the deaths of at least 23 African migrants trying to cross from Morocco into Melilla, one of its two North African enclaves.
Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has sacked the country's armed forces minister and appointed a new chief of staff as part of a major military reshuffle announced on state television.
Shell said Friday it will pay 15 million euros ($15.9 million) to Nigerian farmers to compensate them for damage from pipeline leaks, after reaching a deal with the Dutch environmental group Milieudefensie that has helped the affected communities.
Former Chelsea manager Avram Grant was on Thursday named as the new head coach of Zambia's national football team.
Almost all armed groups in Mali that signed a major peace deal in 2015 suspended their participation in the agreement on Thursday, decrying the ruling junta's "lack of political will" to uphold it.
Fresh fighting between the M23 group and a rival militia erupted on Thursday in eastern DRC, sources said, breaking days of uneasy calm in the volatile region.
More than 1,500 flights were canceled across the United States by Thursday morning as a massive winter storm upended holiday travel plans with a triple threat of heavy snow, howling winds and bitter cold.
The US economy expanded 3.2 percent in the third quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday, in a further upward revision of data reflecting stronger consumer spending and investment than earlier estimated.
Rwanda's army "engaged in military operations" against DRC's military in the country's troubled east, according to a report by a group of independent United Nations experts seen by AFP.
Uganda announced Thursday that it had received shipments of two more trial vaccines to test against a strain of Ebola responsible for dozens of deaths in the East African nation.
France's privacy watchdog said Thursday it has fined US tech giant Microsoft 60 million euros ($64 million) for foisting advertising cookies on users.
Three lions were shot dead in Sudan after trying to escape from their cages inside a base of Sudan's feared paramilitary forces, an animal shelter official said Thursday.
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