BISSAU —Guinea-Bissau's interior minister on Monday said that police had dismantled a passport fraud network within the ministry, and that three of its officials involved in the case had been arrested.
CONAKRY - Guinea's ruling junta on Monday decreed the dissolution of the government which has been in office since July 2022, according to a Facebook video published by the presidency.
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST — Emerse Fae was on Monday rewarded for guiding Ivory Coast to the African Cup of Nations title as interim coach by being given the job full time.
IBADAN, NIGERIA — Hundreds of Nigerians demonstrated against the soaring cost of living in the south of the country on Monday after huge protests in the north earlier this month.
CAIRO— Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Monday that revenues from the Suez Canal had "decreased by 40 to 50 percent" so far this year due to attacks on shipping by Yemen's Houthi rebels.
GOMA - Anti-Rwanda demonstrators burned Western countries' flags Monday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, accusing them of supporting Kigali through the M23 rebels, an AFP journalist saw.
JOHANNESBURG — Mining giant Anglo American Platinum said on Monday it plans to cut thousands of jobs across its operations in South Africa as it reels from low metal prices.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — Britain's legislation on its controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing undercuts basic rights principles, the U.N. human rights chief said Monday.
DAKAR, SENEGAL — Fifteen of the 20 candidates who were approved to stand in Senegal's delayed presidential poll have called for the new vote to be held no later than April 2.
PRETORIA - South African nuclear scientists want to build a new generation of mini nuclear reactors, both to plug holes in their own country's blackout-plagued grid and to build an export industry for the future.
DAKAR - Supporters of opposition presidential election candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Sunday demanded his immediate release in the name of "equal treatment" under the constitution.
ADDIS ABABA -The African Union's health watchdog said on Sunday the continent's leaders will "send a strong message" for the renewal of the main U.S. program aimed at reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Supporters of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Saturday accused Russian authorities of being "killers" who were "covering their tracks" by refusing to hand over his body, as the Kremlin remained mute despite Western accusations and a flood of tributes to the late fierce Putin critic.
In two districts of Dakar where protests would have been expected, residents of Senegal's capital, now welcome the Constitutional Council's decision to annul the presidential election delay.
A bomb struck the airport in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s city of Goma early Saturday as fighting flared between rebels and government forces, security and government sources told AFP.
The head of the World Trade Organization angrily insisted Friday the WTO was still relevant as it prepares for its main gathering with few major deals on the table.
DAKAR - Senegalese President Macky Sall, who faces mounting pressure at home and abroad, vowed on Friday to organize presidential elections "as soon as possible" after the top constitutional body overruled his decision to delay this month's vote.
PARIS - Humanitarian workers say conflict has displaced six million Sudanese, while another million have left the country. They warn that the lack of adequate relief, disease, and growing hunger could imperil millions more.
Concern grows Friday over a key Gaza hospital a day after a raid by the Israeli army, with the Hamas-run territory's health ministry saying several patients had died there due to a lack of oxygen.
CAIRO, EGYPT — Egypt is building a walled camp in the Sinai Peninsula to receive Palestinians displaced from the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip, according to a US media report on Thursday.
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