DAKAR - Mobile internet access was re-established Wednesday in Senegal's capital Dakar, AFP journalists saw, two days after authorities cut access as the country grapples with its worst political crisis in decades.
KINSHASA - Conflict between M23 rebels and government forces is intensifying in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Masisi territory, residents said Wednesday, after days of unrest that have left dozens injured.
ABUJA, NIGERIA — Nigeria’s cabinet ministers have held emergency meetings over the economy and food prices as the government comes under pressure over the fallout from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's reforms.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — The United Nations on Wednesday appealed for $4.1 billion to provide desperately needed aid to civilians in conflict-stricken Sudan and for those who have fled as refugees, warning that fighting between rival forces in the nation had fueled "epic suffering."
Zimbabwe moved to abolish the death penalty on Tuesday, as the government backed legislation to do away with capital punishment nearly two decades after the last execution.
ABIDJAN — Ivory Coast's interim coach Emerse Fae has urged his team to go into Wednesday's Africa Cup of Nations semi-final against the Democratic Republic of Congo with the mindset that has allowed the hosts to make a "miraculous" recovery from the brink of elimination at the tournament.
DAKAR - President Macky Sall prides himself on having transformed Senegal during his 12 years in power, from implementing reforms to launching major infrastructure projects. But will controversy over his temporary suspension of elections taint his reputation?
Armed attackers from a neighboring state killed or burned to death 18 people, including eight soldiers, in South Sudan's Western Bahr el Gazal state, the state's interim governor said Tuesday.
BOUAKE, IVORY COAST — Nigerian forward and 2023 CAF Footballer of the Year Victor Osimhen is available to play in Wednesday's Africa Cup of Nations semifinal against South Africa following a fitness scare, the team confirmed.
DAKAR, SENEGAL — West Africa’s regional ECOWAS bloc on Tuesday said it "encourages" member state Senegal to urgently restore the electoral timetable after this month's presidential election was delayed until December 15.
TUNIS -The families of 40 Tunisian migrants who went missing in the Mediterranean Sea last month protested in Tunis on Tuesday, asking authorities for answers.
DAKAR - The Senegalese opposition on Tuesday denounced a "constitutional coup" after parliament voted to delay the presidential election by 10 months, plunging the normally stable country into its worst crisis in decades.
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday denied that people were dying of hunger in the drought- and conflict-wracked country, which is grappling with a food crisis.
BUNIA, DRC -At least 11 villagers have died in attacks blamed on the ADF rebel group in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said on Tuesday.
NAIROBI - Kenyan police said Tuesday they had arrested the main suspect in a deadly gas blast that triggered a huge fireball in a densely populated area of Nairobi last week.
MALINDI, Kenya — A Kenyan court on Tuesday charged the leader of a starvation cult and dozens of suspected accomplices with murder over the deaths of nearly 200 people in a forest near the Indian Ocean.
BRAZZAVILLE, CONGO - The African Union on Monday urged an end to "external interference" in Libya, which has been torn by a devastating civil war since 2011.
ROME - Italy's public prosecutor opened an inquest into the suicide of a Guinean asylum seeker who had spent months in a detention center, a legal source said on Monday.
PARIS — At least one child dies every two hours in the Zamzam camp for displaced people in war-torn Sudan, French charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, said on Monday, urging an international response.
KANO - At least 35 women are missing after kidnappers seized guests returning from a wedding in northwestern Nigeria, officials told AFP on Monday.
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