A Catholic bishop from the south of Eritrea has been arrested in the capital Asmara, according to religious news agency Fides.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday declared martial law in four regions of Ukraine recently annexed by Moscow as his proxy officials in a southern-held city pulled out with Ukraine troops advancing.
Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina has fired his foreign minister amid reports that his exit was sparked by the country's vote at the UN to condemn Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territory.
Mali's foreign affairs minister on Tuesday said it fight back if France continued to allegedly undermine the West African country's sovereignty and national security.
Egyptian police have arrested a man accused of killing his fiancee, the public prosecutor's office said Tuesday, as local media decried another case of femicide in the country.
Gas-rich Qatar inaugurated its first solar power plant Tuesday which will provide the football World Cup with clean energy for its stadiums ahead of the games next month, organizers said.
A fourth United Nations soldier has died from injuries from a highway bomb in northern Mali, a day after the blast claimed the lives of three of his comrades, a spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission said Tuesday.
Around 1.5 million lives could be saved every year if the world worked together to more swiftly approve new cancer drugs, researchers said Tuesday.
NGO Human Rights Watch said that DRC army officers had themselves provided direct support to a coalition of militias, including the Rwandan Hutu FDLR, which fought DRC M23 insurgents between May and August.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday vowed his government's "unapologetic" backing for the partially recognised Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Western Sahara.
Trout farming in Lesotho has grown on the back of another of the country's most famous exports: water. But here in this nation of just over two million people, among the poorest in the world, few seem to be benefiting so far from the water boom.
UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Monday that the situation in Ethiopia was "spiralling out of control" as fighting raged in the north of the country and the government vowed to seize control of airports and other sites in Tigray.
The crippling South African rail and port strikes have ended with a new three-year wage deal for Transnet workers.
The World Health Organization is sourcing rapid response financing directly from companies to help tackle international crises, through the foundation it set up to bridge the shortfall from member states.
The UN organizations for human and animal health, food and the environment issued their first joint action plan on Monday aimed at detecting and tackling the next potential pandemic.
In Cameroon, co-existence between humans and animals on the edge of dense forests is proving increasingly challenging. Most of the crop destruction is recorded near protected wildlife reserves.
Two United Nations peacekeepers were killed and four injured in northern Mali on Monday by a highway bomb, the UN mission said on Twitter.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has imposed a lockdown on two districts at the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak, barring personal travel, ordering a night curfew and shuttering public places.
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