US job gains topped expectations in October, as hiring rose at a solid pace and wages moved ever higher, even as the unemployment rate edged up, according to the closely-watched US employment report Friday.
Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi called Thursday for young people to form "vigilance groups" in the face of M23 rebel activity in the east of the country.
The G7 wants Russia to prolong a deal allowing safe passage of grain shipments from Ukraine, a senior US State Department official said on Friday at talks in Germany.
UPDATED TO INCLUDE TIGRAYAN ACCUSATIONS OF NEW VIOLENCE: A permanent ceasefire in Ethiopia is "going to be very difficult" after the "awful" war of the past two years, the EU's foreign policy chief cautioned at a G7 meeting in Germany on Friday.
South Africa, one of the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitters, has been granted financing of $497 million to decommission one of its largest coal-fired power plants and convert it to renewable energy, the World Bank said.
Election misinformation is spreading on TikTok ahead of the US midterms despite the company's policies -- and watchdogs are concerned about its effect on young voters as more Americans use the platform as a source of news.
Pilots at troubled national flag carrier Kenya Airways plan to go on strike from Saturday to seek better working conditions despite a court order suspending the industrial action, their union said Friday.
A French parliament session was thrown into turmoil Thursday after a far-right MP was accused of yelling "back to Africa" to a Black colleague posing a question on migrant arrivals to the government.
The UN nuclear watchdog on Thursday said its inspectors had found no indications of "undeclared nuclear activities" at three locations in Ukraine during visits requested by Kyiv to address Russia's "dirty bomb" allegations.
The truce reached between Ethiopia's warring parties marks an "encouraging and bold step" towards peace, the UN rights chief said Thursday, demanding reparations for the brutal conflict's many victims.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Thursday that his government had secured "100 percent" of what it sought in negotiations with Tigrayan rebels that yielded a breakthrough agreement to end two years of war.
A top Athletics Kenya official even warned that the nation was at risk of an international ban, with 25 athletes hit with "doping" sanctions and 19 active cases pending in 2022 alone despite renewed efforts to stamp out the scourge.
World leaders and multinational bodies are praising the forging of a truce between Ethiopia and its northern Tigray region, reached Wednesday in Pretoria talks.
UPDATED WITH UN SECRETARY GENERAL COMMENTS: The Kremlin on Thursday said Russia had yet to decide if it will extend its participation in the Ukraine grain deal that expires later this month.
Almost eight million people in South Sudan, or two thirds of the population in the deeply-troubled country, are at risk of hunger, the United Nations warned in a report on Thursday.
Climate change impacts battering vulnerable countries threaten to outstrip efforts to adapt to global warming, the UN warned Thursday, with international funding help up to ten times below what is needed.
U.S. President Joe Biden revealed on Wednesday his intent to exclude Burkina Faso from a U.S.-Africa trade pact, citing a lack of progress toward protecting the rule of law and political pluralism.
UPDATED TO SHOW TRAORE ARRIVAL: Burkina Faso's new military leader, Captain Ibrahim Traore, arrived in Mali on Wednesday for his first foreign trip since taking power on September 30, officials in both countries said.
Wilson Kiprugut Chuma, the middle distance runner who became Kenya's first Olympic medalist at the 1964 Tokyo Games, has died at the age of 84, officials said Wednesday.
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