PORT SUDAN—Sudan has requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting on what it calls UAE "aggression" for allegedly supporting paramilitaries battling the army, a diplomatic source said Saturday.
LOME—Togo on Monday holds legislative elections after a highly divisive constitutional reform that opponents say paves the way for President Faure Gnassingbe to further extend his family's decadeslong grip on power.
NAIROBI — Somali authorities have detained members of an elite U.S.-trained commando unit for stealing food rations, according to two officials, as the Mogadishu government announced it would now assume the responsibility for provisions.
KIAMBU, Kenya — Desperate to have her five-month-old daughter treated for a skin infection in Kenya, Celine Nyaga rode for an hour on the back of a motorcycle, cradling her baby in her arms.
Ibrahim Mahama, a Ghanaian artist recently unveiled a huge art installation made of purple cloth on the side of London’s brutalist Barbican center. The West African’s artwork is 2,000 square meters and is called “Purple Hibiscus.” VOA’s Red Carpet has more.
MOUNDOU, CHAD —The president of military-led Chad campaigned Thursday in the southern opposition stronghold of Moundou for a May presidential election he is widely expected to win, after his main rivals were ousted from the race.
WASHINGTON—The leaders of the United States, Britain, France and more than a dozen other countries called in a joint statement Thursday for Hamas to release the scores of hostages it is holding.
WASHINGTON—The ongoing tensions in the Middle East threaten to halt -- or even reverse -- some of the recent progress made in tackling global inflation, the World Bank said Thursday.
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST — Soldiers in Burkina Faso's jihadist-hit north killed at least 223 villagers, including 56 children, in two attacks on February 25, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.
JOHANNESBURG—Severe drought caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon is threatening southern Africa with grain shortages and food insecurity, a UN food agency said Wednesday.
NOUAKCHOTT— Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani said Wednesday he would run for a second term in presidential elections due in June.
LOME—Togo's opposition parties have filed a lawsuit with a West African court in an attempt to overturn a constitutional reform they say allows President Faure Gnassingbe to extend his grip on power.
PARIS—The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo is accusing Apple of using "illegally exploited" minerals extracted from the country's embattled east in its products, lawyers representing the African country said Thursday.
TUNIS, TUNISIA — The bodies of 14 migrants have been found in recent days off the coast of Tunisia's southern Djerba island, a public prosecutor in the city of Medenine told AFP Wednesday.
GENEVA— The World Health Organization (WHO) called Wednesday for a strengthening of global detection networks for the H5N1 bird flu virus which infected a large number of animal species.
TUNIS—The bodies of 14 migrants have been found in recent days off the coast of Tunisia's southern Djerba island, a public prosecutor in the city of Medenine told AFP Wednesday.
WASHINGTON—The United States on Wednesday warned of a looming rebel military offensive on the Sudanese city of el-Fasher, a humanitarian hub that appears to be at the center of a newly opening front in the country's civil war.
TUNIS—Tunisia held a "first advisory meeting" Monday in its capital Tunis with Algerian and Libyan leaders in the hope of establishing a new Maghreb regional coalition.
PARIS —Food insecurity worsened around the world in 2023, with some 282 million people suffering from acute hunger due to conflicts, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, UN agencies and development groups said Wednesday.
BANGUI—Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadera declared three days of national mourning on Monday for victims of a river boat disaster, one of the country's deadliest.
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