Somalia's new president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, said he welcomes the redeployment of US troops to his country to help battle al-Shabab extremists.
Four Sudanese are on trial for allegedly killing a police officer during anti-coup protests in Khartoum.
European Union leaders were due to meet on Monday and Tuesday to discuss a new sanctions package against Russia, potentially including an oil embargo. But some EU members highly dependent upon Russian oil may be reluctant to deliberately put themselves in a situation of shortage.
Russian troops have entered the outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk, the regional governor said on Monday, describing "very fierce" fighting in the ruins of a city that has become the focus of Moscow's offensive.
Ukraine has started receiving Harpoon anti-ship missiles from Denmark and self-propelled howitzers from the United States, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said on Saturday, saying the arms would bolster forces fighting Russia's invasion.
A Nigerian court has cleared the way for former president Goodluck Jonathan to run in next year's elections. The action addressed challenges made on his eligibility to return to national politics.
Democratic Republic of Congo has suspended RwandAir flights to DRC and summoned Rwanda's ambassador in response to what it says is Kigali's support for M23 rebels carrying out a military offensive in its eastern borderlands.
Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera's allies are pushing proposed constitutional changes that would let him keep running for office, prompting protests from the opposition.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday said Ukraine was not eager to talk to Russia's Vladimir Putin but that it has to face the reality that this will likely be necessary to end the war.
South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma has suffered another setback in his attempts to remove the lead prosecutor from his arms deal corruption trial, as a top judge dismissed his latest petition in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA).
A World Health Organization senior official said on Friday that the priority needs to be containing monkeypox in non-endemic countries, saying that this can be achieved through quick action. But it has already spread beyond Africa to Europe and North America.
As the United States and its allies provide Ukraine with increasingly sophisticated arms, Washington has held discussions with Kyiv about the danger of escalation if it strikes deep inside Russia, U.S. and diplomatic officials tell Reuters.
Russia’s Duma Deputy Speaker, Pyotr Tolstoy on Thursday said Moscow is considering pulling out of a series of international bodies such as the World Trade Organization and the World Health Organization in response to treatment by the West resulting from the war in Ukraine.
Cryptocurrency "Ethereum" co-founder Gavin Wood said on the sidelines of this week's Davos economic summit that crypto investors need to be more aware of what is backing their holdings after a market rout which wiped more than $800 billion off their value.
Two captured Russian soldiers pleaded guilty on Thursday to shelling a town in eastern Ukraine. At the trial in the Kotelevska district court in central Ukraine, state prosecutors asked for Alexander Bobikin and Alexander Ivanov to be jailed for 12 years for violating the laws of war.
Senegal’s President Macky Sall said on Wednesday that 11 newborn babies died in a fire at the neonatal section of a regional hospital in the town of Tivaouane, around 120 kilometers east of the capital Dakar.
Russian forces on Wednesday pounded the easternmost Ukrainian-held city in the Donbas region that is now the focus of the three-month war, threatening to shut off the last main escape route for civilians trapped in the path of their advance.
Seventy five people were missing after a crowded boat of migrants sank off Tunisia on Wednesday, the International Organization for Migration and a security official said, as the numbers risking the dangerous crossing to Europe increase.
Early intervention is crucial to staving off the famine looming over six areas of Somalia. But speed requires cash. And it is in short supply. The U.N. plan to provide emergency aid is only 15% funded.
African countries raised an objection on Tuesday to a U.S.-led proposal to reform the International Health Regulations (IHR), a move delegates say might prevent passage at the World Health Organization's annual assembly.
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