KIGALI — A Rwandan genocide survivors' group on Sunday voiced anger that Laurent Bucyibaruta, a former official convicted of complicity in the 1994 massacres, died this week "without facing the full force of justice."
NAIROBI — Scientists this week said climate change caused by human activity made torrential rains that have lashed East Africa since October and killed more than 300 people.
Dozens of global traditions are candidates for inscription as intangible global heritage by UNESCO this week, ranging from Italian opera singing and Bangladeshi rickshaw art to the Peruvian delicacy of ceviche.
WASHINGTON — In parts of Africa, expert honey-hunters call out to a species of bird known as the greater honeyguide, which leads them to wild bee nests —a mutually beneficial practice.
In Cameroon's rural north, very few girls go on to enjoy careers in science. But Sabine Adeline Fanta Yadang, a neuroscience doctor, and Hadidjatou Dairou, PhD student of cellular physiology, have smashed through the glass ceiling.
Nigeria’s huge oil refinery built by Africa's richest man Aliko Dangote received its first crude deliveries, the company said on Saturday, in the latest step to starting up the delayed megaproject.
UN peacekeepers on Friday handed over one of their last camps to the Malian authorities as part of a pull-out ordered by the country's military leaders, a UN spokeswoman said.
Burundi's Supreme Court sentenced ousted prime minister Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni to life in prison on Friday on charges including attempting to overthrow the government and threatening the life of the president, a judicial source said.
Rebel miners blockaded more than 440 workers underground in a South African gold mine Friday amid tensions that include a murder this week, the operator said.
The son of Somalia's president — alleged to have knocked over and killed a delivery rider in Istanbul — has fled Turkey despite an international arrest warrant, media reported Saturday.
Zimbabwe started a series of by-elections on Saturday with the opposition in turmoil after being excluded from voting lists.
Israel bombarded targets in Gaza on Saturday after the United States blocked an extraordinary UN bid for a cease-fire in the war with Hamas that has triggered alerts of an "apocalyptic" humanitarian situation.
DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA STRIP — Desperation is growing among Palestinians largely cut off from supplies of food and water as Israeli forces engaged in fierce urban battles with Hamas militants. Strikes in the southern Gaza town of Rafah sowed fear in one of the last places where civilians could seek refuge.
KINSHASA — Problems are plaguing the electoral process in the Democratic Republic of Congo, just two weeks ahead of polling, with many voters rushing to replace ineligible voter cards.
GENEVA — United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said he saw promising signs this week that a major crossing from Israel into Gaza might be opened soon to allow in aid.
The United Nations said Friday it hopes the multinational security force heading to Haiti to help combat violent gangs will deploy before April.
From the worst drought in forty years in the Horn of Africa to record-breaking heatwaves in Argentina, extreme weather prompted by climate change is threatening to disrupt global agriculture, even in temperate zones previously spared.
DAR ES SALAAM — Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan Thursday visited the scene of landslides in the north of the country that left dozens of people dead, declaring the tragedy a "wake-up call" for the government.
HARARE — The Harare High Court on Thursday barred Citizens Coalition for Change opposition candidates from running in by-elections on Saturday, a verdict that could pave way for the ruling ZANU-PF party to get closer to changing the constitution.
DAKAR — Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, also known by its French acronym RSF, Thursday condemned the Mali's military leaders' for "continuing silence" over the abduction of two journalists last month.
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