DIOURBEL, Senegal —Former prime minister Amadou Ba has stepped out of the shadows telling supporters the "bandits" will not win as he battles to be Senegal's next president after Sunday's election.
UNITED NATIONS, United States—The U.N. General Assembly on Thursday called for the development of a set of international guidelines to address the risks and benefits of artificial intelligence.
PARIS—The Paris-based firm Cure51 is working on creating "the first global clinical and molecular database of exceptional survivors" of cancer, according to its website.
UNITED NATIONS, United States—A preliminary investigation into UNRWA, the embattled United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, has found "critical areas" which need to be addressed, a United Nations spokesperson said Wednesday.
N'DJAMENA, Chad —Clashes between "two communities" in eastern Chad have killed at least 42 people in a desert region of the vast Sahel country often hit by land disputes, authorities said Thursday.
UNITED NATIONS, United States—After nearly a year of war, Sudan is suffering one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history, the United Nations warned Wednesday, slamming the international community for lack of action.
ZIGUINCHOR, SENEGAL—Opposition figure Ousmane Sonko is not taking part in Senegal's elections. But in the Casamance regional capital Ziguinchor as in other towns, it is the charismatic Sonko who is in the limelight.
KANYEMBA, ZIMBABWE—The drought from the El Nino weather pattern has withered leaves, wilted cobs and raised the spector of hunger for millions in Zimbabwe.
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories—US top diplomat Antony Blinken touched down Wednesday in the Middle East to bolster international efforts to secure a truce in the Israel-Hamas war, as the threat of famine looms in besieged Gaza.
KYIV, Ukraine—Foreign soldiers captured by Ukraine said they traveled to escape poverty from homes in Asia, the Caribbean and Africa but were tricked into fighting for Russia on the front lines.
LONDRES, UNITED KINGDOM — The United Kingdom’s government's controversial use of former military bases and a barge to house asylum seekers is set to cost more than continuing to use hotels, a public-spending watchdog said Wednesday.
JOHANNESBURG—A South African bank said on Wednesday a court had ordered a halt to outgoing payments from ex-president Jacob Zuma's accounts in a dispute over loans for improvements to his private home while in power.
DAKAR—Senegalese President Macky Sall ends his term in office in April, as political observers and the public consider his legacy.
CAPE TOWN — Known as CapeXit, in a nod to Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, one group is campaigning for a separate state in Cape Town's Western Cape region ahead of May 29 national and provincial elections.
PORT-AU-PRINCE—Security forces in Haiti killed at least three people, repelling an attack on the central bank as gang violence surges in the capital of Port-au-Prince, an employee said Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG—Investigators raided the house of South Africa's National Assembly speaker on Tuesday as part of a corruption probe, prosecutors and parliament said, prompting opposition calls for her to resign.
NAIROBI—A bus carrying students from a top Kenyan university collided with a truck on a busy highway after skidding in heavy rain, killing 11 of them and seriously injuring 42, police said.
KINSHASA—A prominent Democratic Republic of Congo journalist was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for allegedly incriminating military intelligence in the murder of an opposition politician.
GAZA STRIP, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES—Heavy fighting raged on Monday in and around Gaza's largest hospital complex where the Israeli army said it was battling Hamas militants and told Palestinian civilians to flee the "dangerous combat zone."
WASHINGTON—The United States is organizing a charter flight to evacuate its citizens from Haiti, the US embassy said on Saturday, after weeks of gang violence that has paralyzed the Caribbean country.
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