A Burkina Faso court has found three former presidential guards guilty of involvement in the 1990 murder of a student leader, and sentenced them to terms of 10 to 30 years in prison.
A Moroccan appeals court on Wednesday extended by another year the prison sentence of an activist tried for criticizing government officials on social media, her lawyer said.
Suspected Boko Haram jihadists have shot dead 11 farmers -- nine from Niger and two Nigerians -- in southeastern Niger, a local official said on Wednesday.
Egyptian authorities "have continued to stifle freedoms" in the year since launching a national human rights strategy, Amnesty International said Wednesday, six weeks before Egypt hosts the COP27 climate summit.
US President Joe Biden addressed the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. coming out strongly against Russia's Ukraine invasion and its threat to use nuclear weapons. He also spoke of food, climate, and other pressing issues.
A Senegalese appeal court on Wednesday confirmed a prison sentence handed down to the mayor of Dakar, convicted of killing a man during a wave of political violence.
Non-communicable diseases like heart disease, cancer and diabetes are responsible for 74 percent of deaths globally and cracking down on risk factors could save millions of lives, the WHO said Wednesday.
South Africa's highest court on Tuesday ruled that politicians campaigning for internal positions within their own parties must disclose the provenance of campaign fundraising as the country battles endemic graft.
The United States on Tuesday condemned Eritrea's involvement in the war in neighboring Ethiopia, saying the continued presence of their troops served to "inflame an already tragic situation".
At the United Nations in New York, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday will look to form a new community of Atlantic nations with another $100 million in initiatives to support the environment and maritime security, officials said.
Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region and pro-Kremlin authorities in Ukraine's Russian-controlled region of Kherson said Tuesday they will hold referendums on becoming part of Russia from September 23 to 27.
President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia would pursue its "sovereign course" on the international stage, ahead of the UN General Assembly.
A German law requiring telecoms companies to retain customer data is a breach of EU legislation, a European court ruled Tuesday, prompting the justice minister to vow an overhaul of the rules.
One person is estimated to be dying of hunger every four seconds, over 200 NGOs warned Tuesday, urging decisive international action to "end the spiralling global hunger crisis".
Nineteen people were killed in fighting between herders and farmers in southern Chad earlier this month, according to a new toll released on Tuesday by the local prosecutor's office.
The United Nations' massive annual summit resumes Tuesday to a world divided by multiple crises starting with Ukraine.
Three members of Blaise Compaore's presidential guard went on trial in Burkina Faso on Monday accused of murdering a student union leader in 1990.
Botswana, a top beef exporter to the European Union, plans to slaughter 10,000 cattle to curb an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, a minister said Monday.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that unequal education was quickly dividing the planet as he sought to keep development on the agenda ahead of a week of diplomacy focused on global crises.
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