JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — South Africa recorded almost 84 murders daily between October and December, a two-percent increase over the same period in 2022, according to police statistics released Friday.
DAKAR, SENEGAL — Senegal plunged further into the unknown on Friday after the nation’s top constitutional body overturned President Macky Sall's contentious decision to postpone this month's presidential election.
ZLITEN, Libya — Much of Libya is bone-dry desert, but one Mediterranean coastal town is suffering the opposite problem— its houses and fields have been inundated by a mysterious upsurge of groundwater.
Protests against Rwanda and Western countries spread throughout eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, with demonstrators accusing them of complicity with a rebel group that has wreaked havoc in the region.
UNITED NATIONS, New York — Senior UN officials on Thursday highlighted deteriorating security conditions in West Africa linked to the growing entrenchment of the Islamic State extremist group and its affiliates.
Senegal’s Constitutional Council on Thursday overturned the postponement of this month's presidential election, a move that plunged the country into its worst crisis in decades.
TUNIS — President Kais Saied on Thursday appointed a new governor of the central bank of Tunisia, a nation in the throes of economic hardship.
KANO, Nigeria - Desperate Nigerians have been protesting against soaring food prices as an economic crisis forces people to skip meals and eat poor-grade rice used as fish food.
CAIRO - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in Cairo on Wednesday that they were turning a "new leaf" in their relations after over a decade of estrangement.
HARARE — Soaring romantic melodies reverberated among the homes and office blocks of Zimbabwe's capital Harare on Wednesday, as squads of saxophonists became surprise messengers of love.
PARIS - France is to host a humanitarian conference to provide aid to conflict-stricken Sudan in April, French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne said on Wednesday.
DAKAR - Tuareg separatists in northern Mali on Wednesday accused the army and Russian paramilitary group Wagner of having killed seven Chadian and Nigerien civilians in drone strikes on the Algerian border.
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories —Negotiations to pause the Israel-Hamas war and free the remaining hostages headed into a second day in Cairo on Wednesday, as displaced Gazans braced for an expected Israeli assault on their last refuge of Rafah.
NAIROBI — Kenyan police on Wednesday said they have recaptured a man whose escape from custody made headlines following his arrest on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend in the United States.
MORONI, Comoros -The Comoros has taken a swipe at Paris' plans to curb migration to Mayotte by limiting citizenship rights there, saying the move calls into question France's rule over the island.
South Africa on Tuesday urged the UN's top court to place more legal pressure on Israel to halt a threatened offensive against the densely crowded Gaza city of Rafah.
WARSAW - A Polish doctor kidnapped in southern Chad last week has been released following a joint operation between French and Chadian forces, authorities said on Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa urged the UN's top court Tuesday to place more legal pressure on Israel to halt a threatened offensive against the densely crowded Gaza city of Rafah.
MONTREAL - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said Tuesday it has referred Nigeria and Venezuela to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over alleged non-compliance of their anti-doping agencies with WADA rules.
Senegalese authorities banned a planned opposition march on Tuesday as the United States joined growing international calls for President Macky Sall to hold an election for a successor.
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