NOUAKCHOTT - A court in Mauritania's capital Nouakchott on Monday sentenced former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to five years in prison for having abused his position to amass an ill-gotten fortune.
KINSHASA - DR Congo refused to authorise satellite equipment for European Union election observers over fears it would be used to manipulate the presidential poll later this month, several sources told AFP.
NIAMEY - Niger's military leaders said Monday that they were ending two European Union security and defence missions in the country, after earlier in the day agreeing to strengthen military cooperation with Russia.
Move by military-ruled country is latest measure against a French media organization
LAGOS — Nigeria's Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar over the weekend said the West African nation is calling on Niger's governing junta to release ousted president Mohamed Bazoum.
JERUSALEM - Israel pressed on with its expanded ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Monday, following the expiry of a seven-day truce last week.
GOMA — Global human rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch on Monday said the Democratic Republic of Congo should act against hate crimes, a reaction to the killing of an ethnic Tutsi soldier that was lynched in the nation's eastern region.
LUSAK - Rescuers have been unable to locate dozens of illegal miners believed trapped for more than two days in a mudslide in Zambia's main copperbelt region, authorities said Sunday.
ABIDJAN — Several West African NGOs called Sunday for the immediate release of prominent Burkina Faso human rights defender Daouda Diallo, who was abducted last week in the capital Ouagadougou.
SALÉ, MOROCCO — After Hind Bensbitia dropped out of school as a teenager, she was stuck at home with few prospects for her future — until she stumbled across Morocco's first gardening school.
JERUSALEM -Israel and Hamas fought on Sunday for a third day since a seven-day truce expired.
DUBAI - Armed with satellite images of pipelines, former US vice president and climate champion Al Gore singled out the emissions of the United Arab Emirates at the COP28 talks in the oil-rich monarchy on Sunday.
OUGAGOUGOU — The military leaders of Burkina Faso and Niger said Saturday they would quit the G5 anti-jihadist force in Africa's Sahel region, the latest blow to the fight against insurgents in one of the world's most troubled zones.
BISSAU — Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo on Saturday said this week's deadly violence involving members of the National Guard was an "attempted coup" as the army ordered them back to barracks.
DUBAI - At COP28, public relations teams of big companies feel they have to "come up with something during COP.'
DUBAI - More than 110 nations pledged to triple the world's renewable energy within seven years at UN climate talks Saturday as the United States pushed to slash methane emissions and boost nuclear capacity.
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories - Israel and Hamas brushed off international calls to renew an expired truce Saturday as air strikes pounded militant targets in Gaza and Palestinian groups launched volleys of rockets.
DUBAI — More than 20 countries, among them the United States, Ghana and Morocco, called for the tripling of world nuclear energy capacity at UN climate talks on Saturday as part of efforts to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
BISSAU — West Africa's regional ECOWAS bloc strongly condemned an outbreak of fighting Friday in Guinea-Bissau, where the situation had returned to calm Saturday.
MOGADISHU — Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud welcomed the decision made Friday by the UN Security Council to fully lift an arms embargo on his government, while maintaining a ban on sales to Islamists militants operating in the Horn of Africa nation.
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