NIAMEY—A bomb blast has killed six Nigerien soldiers near the border with Mali, Niger's army said Thursday, adding around 10 "terrorists" were later killed in air strikes.
MORONI, COMOROS—Dozens of inmates are on the run after casually escaping from a poorly guarded Comoros prison through the main gate, authorities said on Thursday.
Some 3.4 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian help in Chad following the arrival of large numbers of Sudanese refugees fleeing war, a French NGO warned Wednesday.
GENEVA—The World Trade Organization said Wednesday that global trade should rebound this year from an unexpected slump in 2023, but warned that regional conflicts, geopolitical tensions and economic policy uncertainty risked darkening the picture.
BRUSSELS—The EU parliament on Wednesday adopted a sweeping reform of Europe's asylum policies that will both harden border procedures and force all the bloc's 27 nations to share responsibility.
BAMAKO—Mali's ruling military junta on Tuesday suspended all political activities, saying the move is needed to maintain public order.
ADDIS ABABA — An Ethiopian opposition official from the sensitive Oromia region was found shot dead on Wednesday, a few hours after being arrested by government forces, his party said.
ABUJA—Ten years after the Chibok schoolgirls' kidnapping, Nigeria is facing a resurgence of mass abductions.
HARARE—Zimbabwe's new gold-backed currency got off to a chaotic start with shops accepting only US dollars on Tuesday and vexed Zimbabweans queuing up outside banks for hours to access their savings.
JUBA—South Sudan plans to start voter registration in June for long-delayed elections due to take place at the end of the year, the head of the National Elections Commission said Tuesday.
DAKAR—Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Tuesday ordered his prime minister to draw up an urgent "action plan" to strengthen the country's flagging economy and finances, his office said in a statement.
LOME— The editor of a Togolese newspaper detained over a report about the death of a supporter of President Faure Gnassingbe was released on Tuesday, his lawyer said.
JOHANNESBURG—South African police said on Wednesday they have arrested six suspects for the murder of footballer Luke Fleurs, who played for popular Johannesburg club Kaizer Chiefs.
LOME—Togo has rescheduled legislative elections for April 29 after delaying the ballot over a highly contested constitutional reform, a government statement said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON—The British government has concluded it can keep sending weapons to Israel, Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Tuesday, rejecting pressure to suspend exports over charges of humanitarian violations in Gaza.
MONROVIA—Liberia's Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly endorsed the establishment of a long-awaited war crimes court, marking a significant step towards accountability more than two decades after the end of a devastating civil conflict.
NAIROBI—Hundreds of hospital doctors joined a demonstration in the streets of the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Tuesday as a nationwide strike by medics neared its fourth week.
RED SEA STATE, SUDAN— At least three drones struck Sudanese army targets Tuesday in the eastern state of Gedaref, which had previously been largely spared the country's devastating conflict, military and security sources said.
WASHINGTON— The International Monetary Fund announced Monday that it had approved the latest tranche of financing for Ivory Coast, worth more than $570 million, following a staff visit to the West African country.
GENEVA—One year since the conflict in Sudan erupted, thousands of desperate people are still fleeing the country daily "as if the emergency had started yesterday," the UN said Tuesday.
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