CAIRO - Egyptian authorities have been systematically refusing to provide or renew identity documents to dissidents, journalists and activists abroad in a crackdown on opposition that extends beyond Egypt's borders, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
NAIROBI - Kenya and the World Bank have increased the amount under discussion for a potential budget support loan this fiscal year by a third to $1 billion, a document posted on the bank's website showed.
ROME - Thirty people are missing and 17 were rescued in the central Mediterranean on Sunday after the boat in which they were travelling from Libya capsized in bad weather, Italy's coastguard said.
TUNIS - Tunisia's new parliament, elected in December and January in a vote with ultra-low turnout of only 11%, will sit for the first time on Monday according to a presidential decree.
Khartoum's yellow taxi, once a famous transportation landmark of the Sudanese capital, is struggling to survive amid a crushing economic crisis and political instability in the country. Julian Satterthwaite of Reuters reports.
JOHANNESBURG - Three of South Africa's top four lenders have warned that hours of daily power cuts could hurt small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are considered the backbone of the nation's economy.
TUNIS - Three prominent opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied who were arrested last month and accused of conspiring against state security have gone on hunger strike, their lawyer and the son of one of them said on Friday.
PARIS/LONDON - Britain will pay France 480 million pounds ($577 million) over three years to try to stop migrants from travelling in small boats across the Channel, helping to fund enhanced patrols, the use of drones and a detention center.
BAMAKO - Mali's gold exports rose 8.4% in 2022, reflecting a rise in industrial gold production over the same period, data from the country's statistics agency showed on Friday.
DAKAR - Ivory Coast has signed an agreement with UAE renewable energy company Masdar to explore the development of a 50-70 megawatt (MW) solar power plant, Masdar said on Friday, the latest in a series of agreements in Africa.
GABORONE, BOTSWANA - Botswana will not drop its demand to sell a bigger share of the diamonds produced by its joint venture with De Beers, President Mokgweetsi Masisi said on Thursday, raising the stakes in talks to renew a sales deal that expires in June.
GENEVA - The U.N. Refugee Agency said on Friday it was "greatly alarmed" by clashes between government forces and armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that had caused hundreds of thousands to flee.
JOHANNESBURB - Ratings agency S&P Global late Wednesday downgraded its outlook on South Africa to "stable" from "positive", citing infrastructure constraints and a severe power crisis.
WASHINGTON - Layoffs by U.S. companies over January and February touched the highest since 2009, with the tech sector accounting for more than a third of the over 180,000 job cuts announced, a report showed on Thursday
ABUJA - Nigeria's electoral commission has postponed by a week Saturday's elections to choose new governors, saying it needed more time to reconfigure electronic machines that are at the center of last month's disputed presidential vote.
TUNIS - Tunisian President Kais Saied said late on Wednesday he will dissolve municipal councils months before they were due to be elected, further dismantling the systems of government developed after the 2011 revolution that brought democracy.
KAMPALA - Uganda said on Thursday it expects to start generating at least 1000 megawatts (MW) from nuclear power by 2031 as it moves to diversify its sources of electricity and accelerate its energy transition, a key part of its climate change response.
Britain on Wednesday announced a package of sanctions against what they described as 'global violators of women's rights' based in the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Iran, and Syria
German project developer Conjuncta on Wednesday said it signed a memorandum of understanding with Mauritania, involving Egypt's energy provider Infinity and the United Arab Emirates' Masdar, for a $34 billion green hydrogen project in the West African country.
In a largely male-dominated sector, Michelle Gwatimba, 36, who runs this small farm 200 kms north of Zimbabwe's capital Harare, is not only blazing a trail for women but also provides a livelihood for those who survived violence.
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