PARIS - The world needs "trillions" of dollars to spur on the green transition and tackle global warming, the head of last year's COP28 climate talks said Tuesday, warning that political momentum can evaporate without clear action.
CONAKRY —Guinea's ruling junta has ordered government members' passports to be seized and their bank accounts frozen after dissolving the administration for as yet unknown reasons.
RENK, South Sudan — Since the beginning of fighting in Sudan, nearly eight million people, half of them children, have fled the country. Many have fled to South Sudan, where they struggle to survive.
ABIDJAN —Niger has defaulted on debt instruments worth about half a billion dollars since the country's July coup, according to West Africa's currency union.
WASHINGTON — Biden versus Trump is the lineup in the U.S's 2024 election that has long been a foregone conclusion. But some ask what would happen if, for any number of reasons, one of the contenders does not end up taking part in the November vote?
BISSAU —Guinea-Bissau's interior minister on Monday said that police had dismantled a passport fraud network within the ministry, and that three of its officials involved in the case had been arrested.
CONAKRY - Guinea's ruling junta on Monday decreed the dissolution of the government which has been in office since July 2022, according to a Facebook video published by the presidency.
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST — Emerse Fae was on Monday rewarded for guiding Ivory Coast to the African Cup of Nations title as interim coach by being given the job full time.
IBADAN, NIGERIA — Hundreds of Nigerians demonstrated against the soaring cost of living in the south of the country on Monday after huge protests in the north earlier this month.
CAIRO— Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Monday that revenues from the Suez Canal had "decreased by 40 to 50 percent" so far this year due to attacks on shipping by Yemen's Houthi rebels.
GOMA - Anti-Rwanda demonstrators burned Western countries' flags Monday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, accusing them of supporting Kigali through the M23 rebels, an AFP journalist saw.
JOHANNESBURG — Mining giant Anglo American Platinum said on Monday it plans to cut thousands of jobs across its operations in South Africa as it reels from low metal prices.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — Britain's legislation on its controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing undercuts basic rights principles, the U.N. human rights chief said Monday.
DAKAR, SENEGAL — Fifteen of the 20 candidates who were approved to stand in Senegal's delayed presidential poll have called for the new vote to be held no later than April 2.
PRETORIA - South African nuclear scientists want to build a new generation of mini nuclear reactors, both to plug holes in their own country's blackout-plagued grid and to build an export industry for the future.
DAKAR - Supporters of opposition presidential election candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Sunday demanded his immediate release in the name of "equal treatment" under the constitution.
ADDIS ABABA -The African Union's health watchdog said on Sunday the continent's leaders will "send a strong message" for the renewal of the main U.S. program aimed at reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Supporters of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Saturday accused Russian authorities of being "killers" who were "covering their tracks" by refusing to hand over his body, as the Kremlin remained mute despite Western accusations and a flood of tributes to the late fierce Putin critic.
In two districts of Dakar where protests would have been expected, residents of Senegal's capital, now welcome the Constitutional Council's decision to annul the presidential election delay.
A bomb struck the airport in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s city of Goma early Saturday as fighting flared between rebels and government forces, security and government sources told AFP.
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