Russia said Wednesday it had summoned the French ambassador to protest "anti-Russian" comments made by the French foreign minister after a bomb injured a Russian representative in Central African Republic.
The United States said Wednesday it will provide Ukraine with the advanced Patriot air defense system to help counter Moscow's relentless aerial attacks.
Rwanda on Wednesday accused the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo of "fabricating" a massacre, which a United Nations probe said was committed by M23 rebels and left 131 civilians dead.
Nigerian authorities have acknowledged "collateral damage" from air strikes against criminal gangs in which local residents said around 100 civilians died.
A Zimbabwe court on Wednesday refused to release on bail Job Sikala, an opposition lawmaker who has spent 190 days behind bars without trial, dashing hopes he would be home for Christmas.
The former head of Cameroon's state TV and radio station was handed a 12-year term for graft on Wednesday after spending more than six years in custody.
Morocco is hoping its unprecedented World Cup exploits can help it win friends and influence people, especially among an Arab public opposed to its 2020 rapprochement with Israel.
Kenyan shop attendant Winnie Wanjiru Mwaura was brimming with hope when she signed up to be an election agent for William Ruto during the August 9 polls and elated when he became president.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday only a united African National Congress (ANC) can help resolve the challenges facing the country - including the persistent electricity load-shedding problems affecting the economy. "We can only confront those challenges if we are a united organization,” Ramaphosa said in his speech on the final day of the ANC conference. This as the ruling party remains deeply divided after it re-elected him as leader despite anger over a growing scandal about an alleged theft cover-up at Ramaphosa's farm.
A Senegalese court Tuesday ordered prominent journalist and government critic Pape Ale Niang to be put back in jail, his lawyer said, less than a week after he had been bailed following a hunger protest.
A Gambian parliamentary committee on Tuesday recommended that an Indian pharmaceutical company be banned and prosecuted over the deaths of at least 70 children from acute kidney failure.
Millions of ecstatic Argentine football fans are cheering their heroes as the World Cup winners, led by captain Lionel Messi, began their open-top bus parade of the capital Buenos Aires on Tuesday following their sensational victory over France.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa vowed Tuesday to unite the deeply-fissured African National Congress (ANC) and root out graft after the ruling party re-elected him as leader despite anger over a growing scandal.
Tanzania on Tuesday signed a $2.2-billion contract with a Chinese company to build the final section of a railway line aimed at linking the country's main port with its neighbors.
France has condemned Rwanda's alleged support for M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a volatile region where the militia has seized swaths of territory in recent months.
Ugandan prosecutors on Tuesday charged a U.S. couple with child trafficking and denied bail, a week after they were accused of torturing their foster son.
US lawmakers early Tuesday released the text of a $1.7 trillion funding bill which Congress hopes to pass within days to avert a government shutdown.
Islamic sharia police in the northern Nigerian city of Kano have arrested 19 young people for organising a gay wedding, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Tunisian police have arrested former prime minister Ali Larayedh, his Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party said Tuesday, accusing authorities of trying to divert attention from calls for President Kais Saied to quit.
Morocco's coach Walid Regragui said he believes an African team will win the World Cup in the next "15 to 20 years" after his team finished fourth in Qatar.
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