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June 23, 2023
Zambia Celebrates Debt Deal

LUSAKA — Jubilant lawmakers in Lusaka sang Zambia's national anthem on Friday after foreign lenders agreed to restructure part of the country's debt, a move that entrepreneurs said brought hope for the crippled economy.
June 22, 2023
Senegal's Sonko Files Criminal Complaint Against President Sall

PARIS — Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has filed a criminal complaint in France for "crimes against humanity" against President Macky Sall, his lawyer said, as well as requesting a probe by the International Criminal Court.
June 22, 2023
Ethiopia to Launch Fourth Filling of Controversial Dam

ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia is preparing to launch the fourth filling of its mega-dam reservoir on the Blue Nile, the country's deputy prime minister announced Thursday, despite opposition from its downstream neighbor Egypt.
June 22, 2023
Paris Climate Summit Opens

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron, who is hosting the two-day conference in Paris, told delegates that the world needs a "public finance shock" - a global surge of financing - to fight these challenges, adding the current system was not well suited to address global challenges.
June 22, 2023
Critics: Melilla Border Stampede Accountability 'Nonexistent'

MADRID — The deaths of at least 23 migrants during an attempt to cross into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla from Morocco one year ago prompted an outcry over police actions, but advocates say no-one has been held responsible.
June 22, 2023
Sudan Internal Refugees Crush Sanctuary Town, Fighting Rages

WAD MADANI, SUDAN — In war-torn Sudan, this Blue Nile river town, Wad Madani, has become a relative sanctuary from the fighting, but survivors living there endure overcrowding, disease and creeping hunger. meanwhile, fighting rages again after cease-fire ended Wednesday.
June 22, 2023
IMF: $100 Billion Raised to Fight Climate, Poverty

PARIS — The head of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, said Thursday that rich countries had met a target of reallocating $100 billion of funds from the institution to battle climate change and poverty in developing countries.
June 22, 2023
Tunisia Releases Critical Journalist

TUNIS — A Tunisian journalist, Zied El Heni, arrested after criticizing a law that criminalizes insulting the head of state was released on Thursday, he said after leaving court.
June 22, 2023
Spain Rescues Migrants Off Canaries

MADRID — Spanish authorities rescued nearly 170 migrants from three boats drifting off the Canary Islands overnight on Wednesday, hours after at least two people died when their packed dinghy sank in the area.
June 22, 2023
Nigeria Plateau State Clashes Continue

JOS, NIGERIA — Sixteen people have been killed in two attacks in north-central Nigeria in a region struggling with intercommunal violence, the army said.
June 22, 2023
All Five on Titanic Sub Dead After Implosion

PARIS — All five people aboard a submersible missing near the wreck of the Titanic died — likely in an instant — after their vessel suffered what the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday was a "catastrophic implosion" in the ocean depths.
June 22, 2023
Zambia Creditors Agree to Breakthrough Debt Restructuring Deal

PARIS — Zambia's lenders including major creditor China have agreed to restructure the country's public debt, a French official said Thursday, providing financial relief to the first African nation to default after the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 21, 2023
Mnangagwa Assures 'Peaceful' Election

HARARE — President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday filed his papers to contest Zimbabwe's upcoming elections, insisting that the closely-watched vote would be peaceful despite complaints of an opposition crackdown.
June 21, 2023
Zambia 'Confident' About Debt Deal

LUSAKA — Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema on Wednesday expressed confidence his government will secure a debt restructuring plan at talks with official creditors in Paris this week.
June 21, 2023
French Court Reopens Rwanda Massacre Probe

PARIS — A Paris appeals court on Wednesday ordered the reopening of an inquiry into the French army's alleged failure to intervene in a massacre during the 1994 Rwanda genocide, sources told AFP, after investigators last year closed the case.
June 21, 2023
Tunisia Journalist Jailed Over Criticism

TUNIS — Tunisian journalist Zied El Heni was arrested after criticizing the penal code which criminalizes insulting the head of state during a radio broadcast, his lawyer said Wednesday.
June 21, 2023
Pharrell Williams Has Louis Vuitton Debut

PARIS — The French capital has become a playground for Pharrell Williams and his celeb friends at his debut show for Louis Vuitton, collapsing the distance between fashion, music and money-spinning publicity.
June 21, 2023
Tunisia Train Wreck Kills

TUNIS — Two people were killed and 34 injured when an overnight passenger train careered off the tracks and overturned in eastern Tunisia on Wednesday, the state-owned SNCFT rail company said.
June 21, 2023
AU Shrinks Somalia Force as Al-Shabab Strikes

MOGADISHU — A military base in Somalia came under attack by Al-Shabab jihadists on Wednesday, police and witnesses said, as the African Union announced it was beginning a drawdown of troops in the violence-wracked nation.
June 21, 2023
Gyan Gives Up The Pitch

ACCRA — Ghana football legend Asamoah Gyan, whose missed penalty in the 2010 World Cup cost his country its place in history as the first African nation to reach the semi-finals, has retired at the age of 37.

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