A migrant workers' rights organization has sounded the alarm over alleged trafficking of Sierra Leonean women in Oman, a week after a Liberian minister raised similar concerns with the Gulf nation's foreign ministry.
Officials from two dozen African nations and US climate envoy John Kerry are gathered in Egypt from Wednesday for a conference to drum up funding for tackling climate change.
Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye sacked his prime minister and a top aide in a high-level purge Wednesday after warning of a "coup" plot against him.
Uganda's parliament on Tuesday banned the Nyege Nyege festival, a famous music event, for the second time in a year amid accusations that it encourages sex, drugs, and homosexuality.
Mali on Tuesday urged African organizations to lift the last sanctions they had imposed after the state underwent two military coups, declaring the country was well on track for restoring civilian rule.
International Criminal Court (ICC) officials have arrived in Guinea to monitor preparations for a much-delayed trial over a massacre that left more than 150 people dead.
US envoy Mike Hammer was in Ethiopia on Tuesday to seek a halt to renewed clashes between pro-government forces and Tigrayan rebels in the country's war-torn north.
A Nigerian state commissioner in charge of construction safety and oversight in Lagos has resigned, a day after an unfinished building collapsed in Nigeria's commercial capital, killing six people.
South Africa's economy shrank in the second quarter, as floods and an energy crisis put a halt to months of growth, official data showed Tuesday.
For almost seven months, students in federal government-owned universities in Nigeria have been stuck at home, forced out of class by a protracted strike by staff.
Scores of civilians were killed in political clashes in South Sudan between February and May this year, a UN report said Tuesday, with women and children subjected to brutal assaults, including gang rape.
A bitter showdown between Morocco and its arch-rival Algeria over the disputed Western Sahara territory is causing diplomatic rifts with other nations and even risks sparking a full-blown conflict, analysts say.
Clashes broke out in Guinea Monday between security forces and protesters calling on the ruling junta to speed up the handover of power to civilian rulers, AFP reports.
Scores of Boko Haram jihadists have drowned in a river in northeast Nigeria's Borno state while fleeing from ground and aerial attacks from Nigerian troops, security sources and residents told AFP Monday.
African leaders criticized on Monday the lack of Western counterparts at a meeting in Rotterdam where they pleaded for funds to help their countries adapt to global warming.
Eight suspects went on trial Monday over the harrowing July 2016 attack in the Mediterranean city of Nice, where an Islamist extremist killed 86 people by driving a truck into thousands of locals and tourists celebrating France's national day.
Ukraine's embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant's last working reactor has been switched off from the grid after the facility was disconnected from its last remaining power line due to shelling, Energoatom, Ukraine's power plants operator, said on Monday.
The euro hit a new 20-year dollar low Monday on energy crisis fears, after Russia said it would not restart gas flows to Germany and effectively most of the continent.
The OPEC+ oil cartel agreed Monday to cut production for the first time in more than a year as it seeks to lift prices that have tumbled due to recession fears.
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