LONDON —The UK government said Wednesday it was considering a scheme to send rejected asylum seekers to Rwanda voluntarily and will reportedly pay them up to £3,000 ($3,800) to make the move.
JOHANNESBURG —South African police were on Wednesday investigating the murder of three monks of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox faith. The motive for the fatal stabbings remains unclear.
NIAMEY, NIGER — A senior U.S. delegation visited Niger on Tuesday to meet with the ruling junta, the nation’s state TV said, renewing contact after the coup leaders ousted the elected president and moved closer to Russia.
PORT SUDAN, Sudan—Sudan this week entered its second straight Ramadan in the throes of life threatening conflict that has left much of the country gripped by the specter of extreme hunger.
NIAMEY, Niger —Turkey, Iran and Morocco are vying for a greater economic and military role in Africa's Sahel after former colonial ruler France's forced withdrawal from the volatile region.
CONAKRY—Two children, ages eight and 14, were shot dead on Tuesday during protests against repeated power cuts in Kindia city to the east of Guinea's capital, hospital sources said.
CONAKRY — Guinea's new Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah has suggested the generals that seized power in a 2021 coup will delay a return to civilian rule until at least 2025.
ABUJA — Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Monday warned of "catastrophic levels of malnutrition" and an escalating humanitarian crisis in northwest Nigeria.
NAIROBI — The U.S. Treasury has levied sanctions on 16 individuals and entities across the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, accusing them of laundering money for the al-Shabaab Islamist militant group.
JOHANNESBURG —An opposition appeal for US observers to monitor South Africa's elections has turned into a political squabble, angering the government ahead of what is expected to be the hardest-fought vote in decades.
N'DJAMENA, Chad —Chad's junta-appointed prime minister announced Sunday that he would contest presidential elections set for May 6, just days after incumbent General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno announced his own candidacy.
NAIROBI—Burundi's main opposition party was split Sunday after a faction said they had ousted its leader, Agathon Rwasa, for failing to unify the two sides.
KURIGA, Nigeria — Last week's kidnapping of students in northwestern Nigeria one of the largest recent mass kidnappings by gunmen known locally as bandits where criminal gangs target schools, colleges and highways as they hunt for large groups of victims to make ransom demands.
DURBAN South Africa — South Africa's opposition Inkatha Freedom Party gathered a huge crowd of supporters for the spectacular launch of its general election campaign on Sunday, filling a stadium in the heartland of its Zulu base.
ANKARA—A son of Sudan's army chief and de-facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been seriously injured in a road accident in Turkey, a local media report said.
KINSHASA—A DRC prosecutor called Friday for journalist Stanis Bujakera to be jailed for 20 years for allegedly incriminating military intelligence in the murder of an opposition politician.
Tunis—Tunisians are bracing themselves for more subdued celebrations during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as an economic crisis grips the North African country.
Israel said on Saturday its spy chief had met with his U.S. counterpart as part of efforts to secure the release of hostages still held in Gaza.
Days after U.S. President Joe Biden delivered a combative State of the Union message, he and rival Donald Trump were campaigning on the same turf Saturday — the battleground state of Georgia, carried by Biden in 2020 by fewer than 12,000 votes.
Russian shelling and strikes on Ukraine's Kherson region killed one person and wounded several, with at least two civilians also killed in attacks on the center and east of the country, Kyiv said Saturday.
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