THIES, Senegal—Tapestry production in the Senegalese town of Thies was a flagship cultural policy of Senegal's first president, poet Leopold Sedar Senghor, with production now revitalized thanks to a broadening of operations and new partnerships, including with fashion giant Chanel.
LOME—Togo's legislative election was "free, fair and transparent," regional electoral observers said on Tuesday, a day after the small West African state voted for new lawmakers and regional deputies.
NAIROBI—The African Union on Tuesday said that a bid to defraud the pan-continental body of more than $6 million from accounts held at Ethiopia's main bank had been foiled.
KINSHASA—UN peacekeepers have ceased operations in DR Congo's restive South Kivu province after more than 20 years, officials said on Tuesday, in line with previously-announced plans.
TEL AVIV—US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday saw off a first convoy of Jordanian aid trucks to famished Gaza through a crossing newly opened by Israel, as he pointed to progress but called for more.
BANGUI—A UN-backed court on Tuesday announced it had issued an arrest warrant for the Central African Republic's former president Francois Bozize over possible crimes against humanity committed by the military between 2009 and 2013.
PARIS—France held slightly more undocumented migrants in detention centers last year than in 2022, non-governmental organizations said on Tuesday, warning of increasing violence inside.
DAKAR—The national phase of a months-long "inter-Malian dialogue" is set to begin in six days' time, with the country's military junta banking on the conclusions to bolster its increasingly contested legitimacy.
NAIROBI—Kenyan President William Ruto convened a special cabinet meeting on Tuesday to discuss measures to tackle deadly floods that have killed nearly 170 people and displaced 185,000 others since March, his office said.
LONDON—The UK expects to deport nearly 6,000 migrants to Rwanda this year, a senior minister said Tuesday, after the government published new details on the controversial scheme.
EL AMRA, TUNISIA - Around 20,000 migrants are in isolated areas near the towns of El Amra and Jebeniana, Tunisia, some 30 and 40 kilometers (19 and 25 miles) north of the port city of Sfax, humanitarian sources say.
WASHINGTON—The United States has concluded that five Israeli security force units committed serious human rights violations against Palestinians in the West Bank before the Hamas attack in October, the State Department said Monday.
LONDON—Britain's prisons chief on Monday hit out at the "unacceptable" detention conditions faced by migrants, especially children, at an airport near London.
NAIROBI—Five people died when a bomb hidden on a donkey cart blew up in a Kenyan town on the border with Somalia on Monday, the interior minister said.
KIGALI —Rwandan authorities on Friday accused the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of making "baseless allegations" against Apple after Kinshasa accused the technology giant of using minerals smuggled from the country's volatile east in its products.
OUAGADOUGOU—The head of Burkina Faso's military regime, Ibrahim Traore, accused Ivory Coast on Friday of welcoming "all the destabilizers" of his country, adding there was a "problem with the authorities" in Abidjan.
LOME—With parades in the capital Lome, Togo's ruling party and the opposition closed campaigns on Saturday before legislative elections next week after a divisive constitutional reform that has fuelled political tensions.
MAUN, BOTSWANA—Herds of endangered hippos stuck in the mud of dried-up ponds are in danger of dying in drought-struck Botswana, conservation authorities told AFP Friday.
JERUSALEM—Diplomatic efforts increased on Sunday to reach a long sought-after truce and hostage-release deal in Gaza, as Israel carried out further air strikes and shelling on the war-battered territory.
BEIJING —Tech billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk met in Beijing on Sunday with China's number two official, Premier Li Qiang, who promised the country would "always" be open to foreign firms.
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