BRUSSELS - Leaders of the 27 European Union member states on Sunday stressed "Israel's right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law" against the "violent and indiscriminate attacks" by Hamas.
PARIS - Dozens of foreigners were killed, wounded or taken hostage after Hamas attacked Israel last week, leaving than 1,300 dead in Israel.
RIYADH - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for pressure on Hamas during a meeting Sunday with the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, which has warming ties with Israel but has put normalisation on hold.
PARIS - West Africa's volatile Sahel region which has been rocked by a string of coups since 2020 faces growing bloody jihadist insurgencies linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.
DAKAR - West African regional bloc ECOWAS this weekend warned candidates in Liberia's recent elections against any premature declarations of victory and said it would crack down on instigators of violence.
MARRAKESH - The IMF announced Saturday member nations agreed to increase their contributions to the global lender and give sub-Saharan Africa a third seat on its executive board at its first meetings on the continent since 1973.
MARRAKESH - Zambia has agreed a long-sought debt deal with its foreign lenders, the country's finance ministry said on Saturday at an IMF-World Bank annual meeting in Morocco.
LUANDA - Angola's leading opposition party walked out of an extraordinary parliamentary session called to discuss a possible impeachment against President Joao Lourenco on Saturday, heightening political turmoil in the oil-rich country.
BRUSSELS - The EU's top tech enforcer, Commissioner Thierry Breton, warned Google parent Alphabet on Friday to be wary of potential "illegal content and disinformation" on its YouTube platform.
MARRAKESH - The IMF and World Bank have been holding their first annual meetings in Africa in 50 years under pressure to reform a system too outdated to properly help poor nations battered by the effects of climate change.
PARIS - Natural and man-made disasters have caused $3.8 trillion in crop and livestock losses over 30 years, the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization said on Friday.
DAKAR — The political saga surrounding the detained Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko has taken a new twist, with a provincial judge appearing to reinstate him in next year's presidential race.
Ouagadougou —Burkina Faso's government said Friday that it had signed an agreement with Russia for the construction of a nuclear power plant to provide power to its population — less than a quarter of which has access to electricity.
Zambia is close to signing a long-sought debt deal with its foreign creditors, an IMF spokesperson said Thursday after the institution's chief prematurely announced it was signed.
GOMA — Many are victims of a vast humanitarian crisis triggered by M23 rebels, who have captured swathes of North Kivu province since launching an offensive in late 2021.
NAIROBI - A Kenyan court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging a government decision to allow the importation and cultivation of genetically modified crops to help combat its food crisis.
LIBREVILLE — The wife of Gabon's deposed president Ali Bongo Ondimba, who has been under house arrest since a late August coup over the suspected embezzlement of public funds, has been jailed, her lawyer said Thursday.
ANTANANARIVO - Madagascar's outgoing president Andry Rajoelina launched his re-election campaign on Tuesday, promising "an orange wave" to thousands of supporters wearing his party colour who gathered in the capital, Antananarivo.
MARRAKESH — The World Bank's chief economist warned Wednesday that interest rate hikes could spell trouble for countries struggling to deal with debt.
LAGOS - Nigeria has airlifted more than 300 of its citizens back home after they fled to Jordan from Israel where they were on a Christian pilgrimage, Lagos state government said Tuesday.
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