Al-Jazira State, Sudan — Overnight fighting in Sudan’s capital Khartoum between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces left at least 33 civilians dead, pro-democracy lawyers said on Friday.
PARIS - The world added 50 percent more renewable energy capacity in 2023 over the previous year but more is needed in the battle against climate change, the International Energy Agency said Thursday.
NAIROBI - Burundi said on Thursday it had closed the border with Rwanda, nearly two weeks after accusing its neighbour of supporting rebels who carried out attacks on its soil.
KIGALI - A Rwandan with Danish citizenship has been acquitted of genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 genocide that struck the African nation, the public prosecutor told AFP on Thursday.
LIBREVILLE - Three aid workers with French NGO Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI) have been abducted in northern Cameroon, the humanitarian group said Thursday.
Somalia's military said Thursday it was searching for a number of people "taken hostage" by the militant group al-Shabab after a United Nations helicopter made an emergency landing in hostile territory.
BEIJING, CHINA — Chinese officials on Thursday said the nation’s top diplomat Wang Yi will this week visit Egypt and Tunisia, as part of a four-nation Africa tour before he heads to Brazil and Jamaica.
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES — Israel bombarded the southern Gaza Strip Thursday as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Egypt on the final leg of regional talks aimed at preventing the war between the Middle Eastern nation and Hamas from spreading.
THE HAGUE — South Africa on Thursday accused Israel of breaching the U.N. Genocide Convention, arguing that even the deadly October 7 Hamas attack could not justify such alleged actions, as it launched a landmark case at the top United Nations court.
LONDON — Misinformation and disinformation driven by artificial intelligence ahead of elections in major economies are the biggest global risks this year and next, the World Economic Forum warned Wednesday.
CAIRO - Attacks by Yemen's Huthi rebels in the Red Sea have caused shipping companies to avoid the Suez Canal -- a key source of revenue for Egypt as it battles a deep economic crisis.
GENEVA - The World Health Organization said Wednesday it is gravely concerned by the worsening health crisis in Ethiopia, with drought, conflict and human displacement fueling disease and hunger.
TUNIS - A Tunis court released journalist Zied El Heni on Wednesday night with a six-month suspended sentence, his lawyer Jammel Hammami told AFP.
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST — Senegal’s captain Sadio Mane says he expects "a really difficult group" lies ahead as the West African team prepares to face Gambia, Cameroon and Guinea in the group stages of this year’s AFCON tournament.
PARIS — Three policemen went on trial in France on Tuesday over an assault that inflicted severe rectal injuries to a black man during a stop and search in 2017 in a case that provoked shock across the country.
Changes come months after dozens of U.S. states accused Meta of damaging the mental health of young people
BUREIJ, Palestinian Territories - Israel's military on Monday showed journalists what a spokesman described as a cluster of weapons factories and tunnels used by Hamas militants in Gaza to manufacture rockets.
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST — Newly crowned CAF African Player of the Year Victor Osimhen is a star on a mission. He wants to transform the suffering of Nigerian supporters into joy with an Africa Cup of Nations title.
Salem Bazoum, the son of Niger president Mohamed Bazoum who was toppled in a coup last year, was provisionally released on Monday, according to a Niamey military tribunal.
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE — Twenty seven Sierra Leonean soldiers on Monday appeared before a court-martial which charged them with mutiny over their alleged role in what authorities say was an attempted coup in November.
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