GENEVA - More than 1 million polio vaccines have been lost as collateral damage in Sudan during the upsurge in violence since April, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF told Reuters on Friday.
PARIS - Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Russia's Wagner Group mercenary force, said in a sudden and dramatic announcement on Friday that his forces would pull out of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut that they have been trying in vain to capture since last summer.
GENEVA - The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) on Friday called on governments to allow civilians fleeing Sudan into their territory and not to send them back to the conflict-torn country.
UPDATD WITH VP HARRIS' STATEMENTS: WASHINGTON - The White House hosts CEOs of top artificial intelligence companies, including Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft on Thursday to discuss risks and safeguards as the technology catches the attention of governments and lawmakers globally.
LONDON - A panel of global health experts meets on Thursday to decide if COVID-19 is still an emergency under the World Health Organization's rules, a status that helps maintain international focus on the pandemic.
CAIRO - Seventeen people were killed and 29 injured after a public bus and a heavy transport truck collided on a desert highway in southwestern Egypt, the health ministry said on Thursday.
''I am safe but all my belongings are gone,'' said Claire Uwineza, a local resident in Rwanda's Rubavu district in the Western Province, where flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rains on Wednesday have killed at least 130 people, authorities said. Residents were seen pulling whatever belongings they could salvage from their flooded homes as muddy water flowed swiftly down an inundated roads and destroyed houses. Meanwhile, President Paul Kagame said in a statement that his government was helping affected people including with temporary relocations.
NAIROBI - The U.N. World Food Program has paused food distribution in Ethiopia's war-ravaged Tigray region in response to reports that significant amounts of aid were being diverted, the agency said.
UPDATED AGAIN WITH U.S. PRESIDENT BIDEN COMMENTS: KHARTOUM - Fierce fighting could be heard in central Khartoum on Thursday as the army tried to push back the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from areas around the presidential palace and army headquarters, with a lasting ceasefire appearing elusive
NAIROBI - A Kenyan cult leader accused of ordering his followers to starve themselves to death will be detained by police until a hearing on Friday, a court has ruled, as investigators searched for more bodies in a forest where 101 corpses have already been unearthed.
The United Nations aid chief Martin Griffith said Wednesday he was working on obtaining commitments from warring parties in Sudan to protect humanitarian assistance and to ensure it can be delivered to those in need. "We will still require agreements and arrangements to allow for movement of staff and supplies," he told reporters via video link from Port Sudan. "We will need to have agreement at the highest level and very publicly and we will need to deliver those commitments into local arrangements that can be depended on."
Sudanese - Americans and others with dual nationalities were preparing to board small boats towards a ship in Port Sudan on Tuesday for evacuation. Citizens were either taken to Jeddah via the sea, or on a plane headed to Cyprus, assisted by U.K and U.S. government representatives. Fighting now in its third week has engulfed the Sudanese capital Khartoum and killed hundreds of people.
NAIROBI - Kenya's economy grew 4.8% in 2022, down from 7.6% a year earlier, as a severe drought hurt agricultural output, the statistics office said on Wednesday.
UPDATED WITH HIGHER RWANDA DEATH TOLL: NAIROBI - Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rain have killed at least 129 people in Rwanda and six in Uganda, authorities said on Wednesday, as rescuers hunted survivors trapped in homes.
LONDON - Apple Inc. urged a London tribunal on Tuesday to block a $2 billion mass lawsuit accusing it of hiding defective batteries in millions of iPhones by "throttling" them with software updates.
KAMPALA - Uganda's parliament on Tuesday passed one of the world's strictest anti-LGBTQ bills mostly unchanged, including long jail terms and the death penalty, after President Yoweri Museveni requested some parts of the original legislation be toned down.
ARQEEN, EGYPT: - Egypt said on Monday that 40,000 Sudanese had crossed its border, and the United Nations warned that more than 800,000 may flee Sudan, which has a population of 46 million, if fighting continues.
JOHANNESBURG - South African manufacturing activity contracted again in April but less than in February and March, helped by companies building up inventories, a survey showed on Tuesday.
NAIROBI - Kenyan police fired tear gas at a small group of protesters in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday as the opposition resumed anti-government demonstrations following a one-month pause.
UPDATED WITH RELEASE OF SECOND AL-JAZEERA JOURNALIST: CAIRO - Al Jazeera correspondent Khaled El-Balshy and producer Hisham Abdelaziz have been released from detention in Egypt. the television channel stated Monday.
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