An Algerian court has jailed a journalist convicted of "spreading false news" in an article about dates being allegedly tainted with banned pesticides, his newspaper said Wednesday.
UPDATED TO INCLUDE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES ALLEGATIONS: The talks opened on Monday and are due to run until Sunday, according the South African presidency. But there has so far been a media blackout with journalists kept outside the venue's perimeter fence.
The body of a British woman who died at the house of a controversial cult leader while on holiday in Kenya will be exhumed on Wednesday, the family's lawyer said.
With less than two months to go until the African National Congress gathers to elect a leader, President Cyril Ramaphosa appears weakened as he seeks to retain the helm of South Africa's fractured ruling party.
Italy's new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vowed Tuesday to stop migrants crossing in boats from Africa, as a rescue hotline warned more than 1,300 people were facing danger in the Mediterranean.
Patrick Vieira has called for black players to be given more opportunities in coaching and at the executive level in football. The Crystal Palace boss is the only black manager in the Premier League, compared to 43 percent of black players in English football's top flight.
A majority of Ghana's ruling party parliamentarians on Tuesday asked the president to sack finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta and his deputy, in order to "restore hope in the financial sector".
The European Union announced Tuesday it was lifting sanctions against three Burundians, including the new prime minister, that had been imposed over their role in the country's bloody 2015 political crisis.
Eleven leaders from Central Africa gathered in Kinshasa on Tuesday to discuss the troubles in Chad, where dozens were killed last week during protests at the military's grip on power.
UPDATE TO INCLUDE APPEAL DENIAL: A Russian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from US basketball star Brittney Griner of her nine-year prison term on drug charges, ignoring her plea for the "traumatic" sentence to be reduced.
The World Trade Organization's leader wants an overhaul of farm trade rules, which have been stuck in the mud for more than two decades, a WTO statement said Tuesday.
Sudan on Tuesday blocked internet access nationwide as pro-democracy activists marked the first anniversary of a coup that derailed the transition to civilian rule, with hunger and inflation throttling the country.
Eleven people have been killed in a blaze that tore through a school for the blind in central Uganda in the early hours of Tuesday, police said.
A former top aide to Guinea's ex-military ruler Moussa Dadis Camara told a court on Monday that Camara had planned and ordered the 2009 stadium massacre of more than 150 people.
The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) slammed Chadian authorities on Monday for summary executions and torture after 50 people were killed during anti-junta protests in the capital N'Djamena and the south.
At least 10 Burkina Faso soldiers died and around 50 were injured on Monday in an assault in the northern city of Djibo, the army said.
Boxloads of wooden camels, plates with pictures of Qatar's skyscrapers, gold necklaces and football hats and scarves arrive every day in Doha's Souq Waqif market, where traders eagerly await World Cup fans.
France is calling on African nations to show "solidarity" with Europe after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a French minister told a gathering of regional leaders on Monday.
Hundreds of doctors protested in the eastern DRC city of Beni on Monday and declared a three-day hospital stoppage after health facilities were struck in a deadly attack blamed on the notorious ADF militia.
Western embassies in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Monday advised their citizens in the country to limit their movements due to what they called a higher threat of a "terror" attack, despite appeals for calm from the authorities.
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