LOME, TOGO — The editor of a Togolese newspaper was arrested on Thursday night and faces seven charges including publishing "fake news", according to his lawyer, as media watchdogs warn of a press clampdown ahead of the nation’s upcoming elections.
PARIS—France's lower house of parliament on Thursday approved a bill forbidding workplace discrimination based on hair texture, which the draft law's backers say targets mostly black women wearing their hair naturally.
DAKAR—Senegal's anti-establishment leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye, whose weekend election victory could be officially confirmed within days, was welcomed at the presidential palace Thursday by outgoing leader Macky Sall.
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's electoral officials said Thursday that they had excluded former President Jacob Zuma from May elections, further stoking tensions in the run-up to the polls.
GENEVA—The situation in chaos-wracked Haiti is "cataclysmic," with more than 1,500 people killed by gang violence so far this year and more weapons pouring into the country, the UN said Thursday.
PARIS—The French parliament's lower house on Thursday approved a resolution condemning as "bloody and murderous repression" the killing by Paris police of dozens of Algerians in a crackdown on a 1961 protest to support Algerian independence.
FREETOWN—A Sierra Leone court-martial has sentenced a first person in connection with what authorities called an attempted coup last November, a government spokesperson told AFP Wednesday.
OUAGADOUGOU— Burkina Faso's military junta plans to extend by a year a "general mobilization" introduced to help combat jihadist attacks, according to an official document seen by AFP on Thursday.
ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR — A slow-moving cyclone that unexpectedly turned toward Madagascar has killed 11 people on the island nation as high winds ripped down trees and torrents of water rushed through villages, washing away houses, officials said.
LIBREVILLE— Seven months after bringing the curtain down on the 55-year Bongo dynasty, Gabon's transitional president launches a national dialogue Tuesday touted as paving the way for elections next year.
BAMAKO—Mali's ruling military junta has signed the death knell of a national reconciliation accord with northern separatists, the government said on Wednesday.
Police in Togo on Wednesday broke up an opposition press conference that was called to address constitutional reform criticized as a power grab, AFP journalists said.
N'DJAMENA—Ten candidates, including two fierce opponents of Chad's military regime, on Wednesday protested after they were barred from the May 6 presidential election.
PARIS— Mali's army has killed at least 13 civilians, including seven children aged between two and 17, in drone strikes in the north of the country, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
BANGUI—A court on Wednesday handed one of Central African Republic's main opposition leaders a one-year suspended prison sentence for defamation and contempt of court.
JOHANNESBURG— South Africa's ruling party on Wednesday filed a new court application to stop the opposition MK party backed by scandal-tainted ex-president Jacob Zuma from using its name, denouncing intellectual property theft.
WASHINGTON—The United States on Wednesday launched a new initiative to boost imports of African foods — specialties like seafood, nuts and herbs — seeing untapped potential in items that benefit small-scale farmers.
KAMPALA—Uganda is suffering a steep decline in its number of lions following a 45 percent slump in the past 20 years, the tourism and wildlife ministry said on Tuesday.
HOUSTON—The son of a former president of Guinea-Bissau was sentenced to more than six and a half years in prison for involvement in a transnational heroin trafficking conspiracy, the US Justice Department announced Tuesday.
NIAMEY— The head of Niger's military regime General Abdourahamane Tiani spoke on Tuesday by telephone to Russian President Vladimir Putin about "strengthening security cooperation," according to an official communique.
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