Hopes of sealing a historic "peace pact with nature" at a United Nations biodiversity summit hang in the balance as the world's environment ministers hold the final phase of high-stakes talks beginning Thursday.
With more than 4 million people in Kenya facing acute food shortages after the worst drought in four decades ravaged crops and livestock in East Africa, President William Ruto's new government last month lifted a decade-old ban on cultivation and imports of genetically-modified (GMO) maize.
Retail sales in the US turned negative in November as the holiday shopping season got underway, dragged by auto, furniture and building supplies, according to official data released Thursday.
The last French troops deployed in the Central African Republic left on Thursday following a chill in relations caused by closer ties between Bangui and Moscow according to AFP.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief brought down by a sexual assault scandal, insisted Thursday that he is now a resident of Morocco as French prosecutors investigate his tax obligations.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday sought U.S. help in pressing Ethiopia into an agreement on a mega-dam that the parched Arab country sees as an existential threat.
UPDATED AGAIN TO INCLUDE QATAR BAN, MOVE TO STRIP IMMUNITY: The head of the European Parliament on Thursday vowed "a wide-ranging reform package" to clean up the legislature amid a graft scandal linked to World Cup host Qatar.
Tunisians got to the polls Saturday to elect a parliament largely stripped of its powers, under a hyper-presidential system installed by the head of state Kais Saied after his power grab last year.
Senegal has ordered the release of journalist and government critic Pape Ale Niang, whose detention for more than a month incensed his profession and human rights defenders, one of his lawyers said Wednesday.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will make a speech on slavery on December 19, the government said Wednesday, without confirming reports that he would give a formal apology for the Netherlands' role.
A Paris court ordered charges to be dropped Wednesday against a French company and its managers who were accused of complicity in torture after selling sophisticated spyware to the Egyptian government.
World Cup organisers said Wednesday that an urgent investigation had been launched into the death of a Kenyan security guard who fell from an upper floor at the Lusail Stadium in Qatar.
Convicted DRC warlord Bosco Ntaganda has been transferred from the International Criminal Court to Belgium to start a 30-year sentence for war crimes, the tribunal said Wednesday.
Forty-six tortoises born and raised in captivity in Monaco have been brought to Senegal as a first step to returning to the wild. They are African spurred tortoises -- a species that inhabits the southern rim of the Sahara.
The families of two miners allegedly killed at a Tanzanian gold mine in 2019 on Wednesday launched a legal claim against the London Bullion Market Authority for certifying its gold.
Ukraine said Wednesday it had shot down multiple Iranian-made drones launched at the capital by Russian troops in their latest attack on Kyiv.
An Ethiopian man whose father was murdered during the country's war joins a lawsuit filed in Kenya against Meta, accusing Facebook's parent company of fanning violence and hate speech in Africa.
Microsoft announced plans Wednesday to bring internet access via satellite to 10 million people, half of them in Africa, as part of efforts to bridge a digital divide with the developing world.
Untreated sewage flowing into the Indian Ocean has hoteliers in tourist hotspot Durban up in arms as South Africa gears up for the holiday season.
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