WAD MADANI, SUDAN — The Sudanese Armed Forces, SAF, Wednesday said a delegation "will travel to Jeddah" to resume talks with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF, that will be brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia.
RIYADH - The raging war between Israel and Hamas is already battering the economies of nearby countries, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund told a Saudi investor forum on Wednesday.
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE — Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio Tuesday evening pledged to fully implement an agreement with opposition leaders under international mediation to overcome tensions related to the disputed June elections.
CAIRO, EGYPT — France's President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to hold talks with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Wednesday — the latest leg of a whistle stop crisis tour by the French authority.
JOHANNESBURG - Some of the miners who stayed underground for more than two days in a standoff between rival South African labour unions began returning to the surface Wednesday, their representatives and police said.
NAIROBI, KENYA — The governor for Kenya's Central Bank Kamau Thugge Tuesday addressed a parliamentary committee where he said the East African nation's currency that is currently trading at record lows, has been overvalued for several years.
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES — The main United Nations aid agency operating in besieged Gaza warned that it will have to stop operations by the end of Wednesday because it is running out of fuel, as Hamas said Israeli strikes that happened over night killed at least 80 people.
JERUSALEM - Israel has not launched a ground invasion of Gaza, despite announcing its imminence, a delay media reports and experts attribute to international pressure, political-military divisions and concerns over hostages.
KAMPALA - Uganda on Tuesday scoffed at a US warning about the risk of doing business in the East African country, describing it as "laughable."
SPRINGS, SOUTH AFRICA - More than 500 miners in South Africa have remained underground for over 36 hours because of a standoff between rival labor unions, police and workers' representatives said on Tuesday.
NOUACHOTT - A Mauritanian prosecutor Tuesday requested a 20-year prison sentence for former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, put on trial for allegedly abusing his power and amassing a huge fortune.
CAIRO - Gaza war sparks Arab fears of a new Nakba, or "catastrophe," a term that refers to the exodus or forced displacement of 760,000 Palestinians in the war that led to the creation of Israel 75 years ago.
WASHINGTON - The United States on Monday ended assistance to Gabon over its August 30 coup but said it was ready to provide aid in return for concrete progress toward democracy.
BENI, DRC - At least 20 civilians have been killed in an eastern DR Congo attack blamed on militants linked to the Islamic State group, local sources said Tuesday.
NAIROBI - A Kenyan court on Tuesday extended an order barring the government from deploying hundreds of police officers to Haiti on a UN-backed mission aiming to pacify the troubled Caribbean nation.
JERUSALEM - Israel has cut the electricity supply to Gaza as part of the "total siege" it launched on October 9, seriously hindering communications between the Palestinian territory and the rest of the world.
KANO, NIGERIA — Nigerian security authorities on Monday said over 70 young people were arrested for organizing a gay wedding in northeastern Gombe state — the latest raid in the West African nation on the LGBTQ community.
KANO - immunisation has plummeted in Nigeria since the Covid pandemic, when global attention focused on containing its spread and governments almost entirely committed health budgets to fighting the virus.
TEL AVIV - Hamas rockets fell on Tel Aviv during the October 7 attacks, and alert sirens still send residents rushing to shelters daily —and the strain on Israel's commercial hub is starting to show.
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — The European Union on Monday took a legal step towards imposing sanctions on Niger’s new military rulers that were responsible for overthrowing President Mohamed Bazoum in July.
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