Morocco is jailing journalists after flawed trials for non-political crimes, particularly sexual ones, in order to silence them, part of a range of "techniques of repression", Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
Jihadists have killed three policemen and a vigilante in an ambush on the convoy of a local official in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, two militia sources said Thursday.
Ivory Coast reported a fresh discovery of offshore oil and natural gas by Italian firm Eni on Thursday, expanding the potential of reserves found last year by 25 percent.
In northwest Nigeria, gang crime has also combined with surging prices for food and fuel, breeding a crisis that inflicts hunger on youngsters who are already exposed to malaria and other diseases, say aid workers and health officials.
A Gabon court has handed a former presidential spokesman an eight-year prison sentence for "embezzlement of public funds" and "money laundering", his lawyers said Wednesday.
US gun makers earned more than $1 billion from the sale of AR-15-style semiautomatic weapons over the last decade, a House committee said Wednesday as lawmakers grilled manufacturers following a series of grim mass shootings.
As monkeypox cases surge globally, the World Health Organization called Wednesday on the group currently most affected by the virus -- men who have sex with men -- to limit their sexual partners.
French President Emmanuel Macron on a visit to Benin Wednesday branded Russia "one of the last imperial colonial powers" for its invasion of Ukraine.
Al-Qaida jihadists are tightening the screws on Mali's military junta, extending their attacks to the south of the country and hitting a key garrison town on the outskirts of the capital.
Four people at an anti-UN protest in Uvira in eastern DR Congo were killed on Wednesday after they were struck by a falling high-voltage cable, the town hall said.
President Cyril Ramaphosa rolled out the red carpet for South Africa's women on Wednesday, saying they deserved to be paid as much as their male counterparts after they won their first Africa Cup of Nations.
Soldiers and armed police were deployed in several towns in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday after 15 people, including three United Nations peacekeepers, were killed in anti-UN protests, AFP reporters said.
An animal market in China's Wuhan really was the epicenter of the Covid pandemic, according to a pair of new studies in the journal Science published Tuesday that claimed to have tipped the balance in the debate about the virus' origins.
Burundi has secretly sent hundreds of troops and members of a youth militia into neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo since the end of 2021 to fight an armed rebel group, a Burundian human rights group said Wednesday.
The White House on Tuesday held a summit with vaccine makers and scientists as it pushed for "next generation" Covid-19 vaccines that offer broader and more durable protection against the virus.
Moscow said on Tuesday it was leaving the International Space Station "after 2024", amid tensions with the West, in a move analysts warned could lead to a halt to Russian manned flights.
Two women died in forest fires in a region of northern Morocco that had already been ravaged by wildfires this month, authorities said on Tuesday.
President Kais Saied said Tunisia had "entered a new phase" on Tuesday with a new constitution almost certain to pass in a referendum, concentrating almost all powers in his office.
Thirteen scrap-metal collectors in northeast Nigeria's Borno state were killed when a bomb they excavated blew up, security sources told AFP on Tuesday.
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