KAMPALA — Ugandan police said Monday that 20 people had been arrested for suspected collaboration with the notorious militia group "Allied Democratic Forces," blamed for last week's attack on a school near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo.
LONDON — The U.K. on Monday announced new sanctions against on two rebel leaders from the violence-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo - Desire Londroma Ndjukpa and William Yakutumba.
MOSCOW — The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia would continue to talk to a group of African countries seeking to mediate in the conflict with Ukraine, notably at a Russia-Africa summit next month, and that some of their ideas were workable.
BEIJING — President Xi Jinping said the United States and China had "made progress" on a number of issues Monday, during talks with top U.S. diplomat Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
KINSHASA — A notorious armed group, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), suspected of massacring at least 41 people at a Ugandan school, has received funds from the so-called Islamic State (IS), according to a U.N. report seen by AFP on Monday.
NAIROBI — Kenya and the European Union have announced a major trade deal Monday in a coup for Brussels as it seeks deeper economic ties with Africa in the face of competition from China.
GENEVA — While the Sudan cease-fire declared Sunday appears to be holding, that nation is descending into death and destruction at an unprecedented speed, U.N. chief Antonio Guterres said Monday. Meanwhile, a donor's conference has pledged nearly $1.5 billion for Sudan aid.
PARIS — French actor Gerard Depardieu, who faces mounting problems over his private life, is to sell much of his art collection worth an estimated 3-5 million euros, his auctioneers have announced.
RENNES, FRANCE — French police say they have collared a slippery network of cooking oil thieves who had been raiding fast-food restaurants and stealing the discarded contents of their deep fryers to sell as biofuel.
GQEBERHA, SOUTH AFRICA — The classrooms are bright and clean, their shelves filled with textbooks and stationery. The pupils wear neatly ironed blue and grey uniforms with bright red jerseys. This might be mistaken for an expensive private school, yet all the pupils are from poor backgrounds.
UNITED NATIONS — Mali's foreign minister called Friday for the United Nations Security Council to withdraw the peacekeeping mission in his country "without delay," denouncing its "failure" to respond to security challenges.
TUNIS — A key critic of Tunisian President Kais Saied, Ahmed Nejb Chebbi, called in for questioning over allegations of conspiracy against the state, has accused the president Friday of "criminalizing" all opposition.
NEW YORK — Basketball legend Michael Jordan will sell his majority stake in NBA's Charlotte Hornets to an investment consortium, the team announced Friday.
BRUSSELS — NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Friday welcomed a peace mission by African leaders to Ukraine, but warned only a "just" solution that treats Russia as the aggressor would work.
GENEVA — The United Nations called on Friday for in-depth investigations into the migrant boat sinking off Greece this week, believed to have left hundred dead, and urgent action to prevent further tragedies.
NAIROBI — More than 400 people were killed in South Sudan between January and March this year, with ethnic clashes accounting for much of the violence plaguing the troubled country, the United Nations said Friday.
GENEVA — The United Nations called Thursday for the killers of Sudan West Darfur State Governor Khamis Abdullah Abakar to be held to account, and said the paramilitary forces holding him had been responsible for his safety.
COTONOU — Since Nigeria's new president Bola Ahmed Tinubu abruptly ended his country's long-standing subsidy on petrol two weeks ago, prices of black market fuel over the border in Benin have also doubled.
KHARTOUM — The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than one million children including 270,000 in the Darfur region, the United Nations children's agency said, warning many more were at "grave risk."
NIAMEY — Niger's capital, Niamey, is suffering major power cuts linked to disruptions in the supply of electricity from neighboring Nigeria, according to Nigelec, the country's sole supplier.
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