QatarEnergy announced a 27-year natural gas supply deal with China Monday, calling it the "longest" ever seen as it strengthened ties with Asia while Europe scrambles for alternative sources.
The long-awaited trial of suspects in a 2016 attack on a tourist resort in Ivory Coast that left 19 dead will start next week, officials said Monday.
The European Commission will try to head off bitter new splits between EU member states over immigration reform, with a plan unveiled Monday to speed the relocation of refugees.
New clinical trials of vaccines and drugs have helped bolster Uganda's arsenal of weapons to fight against an Ebola outbreak first detected two months ago.
Algerian police arrested one of the country's most prominent writers, Lazhari Labter, in Algiers on Sunday, according to his son, who said the reasons behind the arrest were unclear.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday landed in Britain for the first state visit hosted by King Charles III as the UK's new monarch.
Nearly 150,000 children displaced by violence in jihadist-torn Mali have no birth certificates and could be denied education as a result, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on Monday.
Kenyan President William Ruto said Monday that East African troops would "enforce peace" in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which is in a grip of an offensive by the M23 armed group.
An appeal court in South Africa said on Monday that former president Jacob Zuma was unlawfully given medical parole from a jail term last year and should return to prison to complete his sentence.
Qatar became the first World Cup hosts in history to lose their opening match, going down 2-0 to Ecuador on Sunday as football's showpiece got under way after 12 years of preparations.
A fraught U.N. climate summit wrapped up Sunday with a landmark deal on funding to help vulnerable countries cope with devastating impacts of global warming - but also anger over a failure to push further ambition on cutting emissions.
Equatorial Guinea went to the polls on Sunday, with President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo all-but certain of winning a record sixth term in the West African country with next to no opposition.
A musical adaptation of "Monsoon Wedding" starting Thursday in Qatar had to remove alcohol and kissing, but the hit film's director Mira Nair insists it has not lost its "soul".
Conservationists in Niger said they successfully transferred threatened West African giraffes to a new home 600 kilometers away.
After a first shipment of Russian fertilizer blocked in European ports heads for Malawi next week, a second batch should go to West Africa, the United Nations said Friday.
Qatar on Friday banned beer sales around the eight World Cup stadiums in a stunning policy U-turn just two days before the start of the tournament.
UPDATE: Authorities at the two-week long United Nations COP27 Climate Conference say the climate change summit was expected to wrap up Friday but has been extended by another day due to disagreements between rich and developing nations over creating a fund focused on helping poor nations better address climate change.
U.N. chief Antonio Guterres urged rich and developing nations to stop the "finger pointing" at deadlocked climate talks on Thursday and reach a deal on covering the losses suffered by vulnerable countries battered by weather disasters.
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