LAGOS — Nigeria’s fashion and traditional dances were at full display during Prince Harry and Meghan's visit to Nigeria's largest city, Lagos. The couple were promoting mental health for soldiers and empower young people on their first visit to the West African nation at the invitation of its military.
REHOBOTH BEACH, Deleware — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday delivered some of the Biden administration’s strongest public criticism yet of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, saying Israeli tactics have meant “a horrible loss of life of innocent civilians” but failed to neutralize Hamas leaders and fighters and could drive a lasting insurgency.
NAIROBI—In Kenya, floods and mudslides have swept away people and inundated homes, killing at least 267 people and affecting more than 380,000, according to government statistics.
MEXICO CITY— Hundreds of mothers of missing people, other relatives and activists have marched through downtown Mexico City to mark a sad commemoration of Mother's Day.
CAIRO— Sudan’s military and allied armed groups staved off an attack by a paramilitary group and Arab militias on a major city in the western region of Darfur, officials and residents said Saturday.
ABUJA— Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, says it’s been “humbling” to find out through a genealogy test that she is partly Nigerian as she met with women in the West African nation Saturday.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth produced stunning displays of color in the skies across the Northern Hemisphere early Saturday, with no immediate reports of disruptions to power and communications.
NEW YORK — TikTok will begin labeling content created using artificial intelligence when it's uploaded from certain platforms.
NAIROBI, Kenya — High-level meditation talks on South Sudan were launched Thursday in Kenya with African presidents calling for an end to a conflict that has crippled the country's economy for years.
ALGIERS— While France celebrated the anniversary of victory over the Nazis on Wednesday, Algeria commemorated a more somber anniversary: The crackdown by French colonial forces on Algerian independence activists the same day 79 years ago. Both events took place on May 8, 1945.
ATLANTA — A Georgia appeals court on Wednesday agreed to review a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against former President Donald Trump.
COPENHAGEN— Europeans focus more on curbing immigration than on climate change and less than 15% of those interviewed across the globe consider climate issues to be among the top three priorities for their government, according to a global study on Wednesday.
GEORGE, South Africa — Nearly 40 construction workers were still missing Wednesday in the rubble of a building that collapsed in South Africa on Monday as rescue teams continued to search for survivors in the wreckage of the unfinished five-story apartment complex.
NAIROBI— Kenya's government has begun bulldozing homes built in flood-prone areas and promising evicted families the equivalent of $75 to relocate after a deadline passed to evacuate amid deadly rains.
TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance are suing the United States over a law that would ban the popular video-sharing app unless it’s sold to another company.
LOME— Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has signed a controversial new constitution that eliminates presidential elections, a move that opponents say will allow him to extend his family’s six-decade-long rule.
CAPE TOWN— Rescue teams worked through the night searching for dozens of construction workers buried for more than 12 hours under the rubble of concrete after a multi-story apartment complex that was being built collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa.
Liberia, West Africa's most forested country, has a long history of illegal logging, which the country's regulator, the Forestry Development Authority, has repeatedly struggled to confront.
ABUJA — A Nigerian journalist’s arrest last week has triggered criticism of worsening press freedoms in the West African country.
CAPE TOWN— A report into a building fire that killed 76 people in South Africa last year has concluded that city authorities should be held responsible because they were aware of serious safety issues at the rundown apartment block at least four years before the blaze.
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