French emergency services rescued 240 migrants heading in small boats across the Channel to the southern coast of England within a 24 hour period this week, local authorities said.
A first shipment of Russian fertiliser left the Netherlands on Tuesday bound for Malawi after days of wrangling to ensure it was not snagged by Western sanctions.
The White House on Tuesday announced an international "Summit for Democracy" to be held next March, co-hosted with Zambia, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, and South Korea.
Prospects for the world's nuclear industry have been boosted by the war in Ukraine and mounting hostility towards climate-wrecking fossil fuels -- but Niger, one of the world's biggest sources of uranium, has yet to feel the improvement.
Three members of the inner circle of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko were on Tuesday sentenced to a month behind bars over violent confrontations with government supporters, their lawyer said.
US consumers were gloomier about the state of the American economy in November, likely due to a rise in gas prices and as recession risks loom, according to a survey released Tuesday.
The EU on Tuesday announced the discovery of a sophisticated 2.2-billion-euro ($2.3-billion) VAT tax fraud that triggered raids in 14 countries, including France, Germany, Greece and Spain.
All regions of the world saw water extremes last year -- both floods and droughts -- and billions of people had insufficient freshwater, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
S.Africa jobless rate edges down again despite power cuts that hampered economic activity across the country, official data showed on Tuesday.
The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group conceded on Tuesday that a Zambian student he recruited from a Russian prison had been killed fighting in Ukraine.
UPDATED TO INCLUDE STABBING OF HANI'S MURDERER: The grave of anti-apartheid hero Chris Hani has been vandalised, days after a South African court ordered the far-right gunman who killed him to be released on parole, city officials said on Tuesday.
FIFA has lifted a ban on Kenya's national football federation, following the government's decision to reinstate the body after disbanding it over corruption allegations, the country's sports minister said Monday.
Somali forces ended an hours-long siege by Al-Shabaab militants targeting a popular hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, where eight civilians have been killed in the attack, according to a national police spokesman.
Cameroonian authorities Monday said 15 people died on Sunday in the capital Yaoundé resulting from landslides.
Nigerian political experts say the presidential candidate for the Labor Party, Peter Obi is gaining support among youth in the West African nation ahead of the 2023 elections.
Equatorial Guinea's ruler Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has been re-elected to a sixth term as president with 94.9 percent of the votes cast, election officials announced on Saturday, putting turnout for the vote at 98 percent.
The Democratic Republic of Congo will hold its next presidential polls on December 20, 2023, the country's electoral commission said Saturday.
In the chaotic displacement camps near the eastern DRC city of Goma, war victims speak of rape and brushes with death in their flight from advancing M23 rebels, who have surged across eastern DRC's North Kivu province, winning a string of victories against the army.
Delegates at a global summit on trade in endangered species on Friday approved a plan to protect 54 more shark species, a move that could drastically reduce the lucrative and cruel shark fin trade.
Neymar will sit out Brazil's next World Cup game after he injured an ankle in his team's opening win against Serbia, the team doctor said on Friday, and a report said he may not return until the last 16.
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