In a new report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said African governments face an "extremely challenging" environment in macro-economic policy.
Police are searching for 11 illegal immigrants who escaped a detention center in northeast France where they were awaiting deportation, officials said Thursday.
Amid tight security, Angolan President Joao Lourenco, at his inauguration Thursday, pledged to be "president for all Angolans" at a colorful ceremony on historic Praca da Republica square in the capital Luanda..
Fuel prices in Kenya surged to record highs on Thursday after the new government slashed subsidies, piling on misery for a population already facing deep economic hardship.
UPDATED WITH NEW TOLL: At least seven people were killed and others severely burned when a tanker truck blew up in a village in western Democratic Republic of Congo, a provincial chief said Thursday.
South Africa's parliament has appointed an independent panel to determine whether President Cyril Ramaphosa should face impeachment over the alleged cover-up of a heist at his luxury farmhouse.
The world's poorest countries say they will insist that the UN's upcoming climate talks push ahead with proposals for a fund to compensate vulnerable nations for climate-inflicted damage.
The Ethiopian government is "committed" to the AU-led peace process aimed at ending the near two-year conflict in the north, its foreign ministry said Wednesday.
Kenya's new President William Ruto said on Wednesday the East African country was breaking diplomatic ties with the contested Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Western Sahara after talks with Morocco.
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday made an urgent appeal to world leaders to act on climate change and "lower the temperature" so as not to "drown" the world, after visiting flood-hit Pakistan.
Qatar and Egypt signed several memoranda of understanding Wednesday, official media said, as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi makes his first visit to the Gulf country since the nations healed a diplomatic rift.
Around 200 health organizations and more than 1,400 health professionals on Wednesday called for governments to establish a binding international treaty on phasing out fossil fuels, which they said pose "a grave and escalating threat to human health".
South Korea has fined Google and Meta more than $71 million collectively for gathering users' personal information without consent for tailored ads, regulators said Wednesday, the country's highest-ever data protection fines.
The European Union's second-highest court on Wednesday overwhelmingly upheld the EU's record fine against Google over its Android operating system for mobile phones, slightly reducing the fee for technical reasons.
Ten people were killed in a second day of air strikes on Ethiopia's Tigray region Wednesday, hospital officials said, in attacks that came after authorities there expressed readiness for a ceasefire.
A former top Malian official was briefly held in Paris after the ruling junta in Bamako issued an international arrest warrant for him, according to French officials.
South Africa's medicines regulatory authority says it has recorded two fatal cases of the rare Guillain-Barre syndrome in people who had received a Johnson & Johnson Covid jab. The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) reported its first case in August and the second on Monday.
Niger, with World Bank support, on Tuesday launched a major electrification program, employing renewable energy, with the goal of reaching 80-percent coverage by 2035.
Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko told the US Congress on Tuesday that the platform ignored his security concerns, as its shareholders decide whether to approve a $44 billion takeover deal that Elon Musk is trying to exit.
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrived in Qatar on Tuesday for the first time since a four-year rift between the countries, officials said.
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