ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia's government security forces killed at least 45 civilians in a massacre in Amhara state in late January, the independent state-affiliated Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said Tuesday.
CAIRO - Ten months after conflict erupted in Sudan sending hundreds of thousands fleeing, many of those who sought refuge in neighboring Egypt face a grim choice between homelessness and returning home at their own peril.
GENEVA - The UN voiced concern Tuesday at tensions in Senegal after President Macky Sall delayed this month's presidential poll and urged swift probes into at least three deaths during protests.
DAKAR - Senegalese civil society and opposition kept up pressure on President Macky Sall ahead of opposition protests Tuesday against his move to delay a presidential election.
GENEVA - Switzerland's appeal court has upheld guilty verdicts against six bodyguards of Cameroon's President Paul Biya for the 2019 assault of a journalist, the Keystone-ATS news agency reported Monday.
MONROVIA - Liberia's new defense minister on Monday resigned from his post just 10 days after being appointed, following a protest by soldiers' wives, the presidency said.
TUNIS - Seventeen Tunisian migrants are missing a week after embarking from a Mediterranean port city in the country's north, Tunisia's coast guard said Monday, after relatives had urged the authorities to find them.
MONROVIA - Wives of Liberian soldiers set up roadblocks near the capital Monrovia and elsewhere in the country, forcing President Joseph Boakai to cancel National Army Day celebrations on Monday, an AFP correspondent saw.
KINSHASA -DRC authorities on Monday stepped up security outside embassies and UN buildings after they were targeted by protesters accusing the West of supporting M23 rebels in the conflict-wracked east.
GOMA, DRC - Elements of Rwanda's army supporting M23 rebels in eastern DRC have fired at least one surface-to-air missile, according to an internal UN document seen by AFP on Monday.
LONDON - The UK government's latest legislation to revive its controversial plan to send migrants to Rwanda is "not compatible" with the country's rights obligations, a watchdog panel of British lawmakers warned Monday.
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories - The threat of an Israeli incursion into Gaza's southernmost town of Rafah persisted Sunday, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised "safe passage" to civilians displaced there.
BERRECHID, MOROCCO -Around this time every year, Moroccan wheat farmer Abderrahim Mohafid is usually preparing for his spring harvest, but this year his fields lay unusually bare.
DAKAR - Tuareg separatists on Saturday announced the lifting of blockades they'd set up in December on main roads throughout northern Mali after the national army took back several towns.
South Africa’s firebrand leftist politician Julius Malema on Saturday accused the ruling African National Congress, ANC, of neglecting the country's ills as he launched the party's electoral campaign ahead of a hotly contested poll that could cost the ruling party its parliamentary majority.
DAKAR - Senegalese security forces fired tear gas at protesters in the capital Friday as mounting anger over the postponement of a presidential election claimed a first death.
ABUJA, NIGERIA— West Africa’s regional ECOWAS bloc has appealed for unity after emergency talks on the political crisis in Senegal and the withdrawal of three coup-hit countries from the group.
GOMA, DRC — Aid organizations say civilians are facing bombs, thousands have been forced to flee and lost children in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where fresh fighting between M23 rebels and pro-government forces erupted on Thursday.
The United States on Thursday warned Israel that it risks "disaster" if it sends troops into Gaza's far-southern city of Rafah, where more than one million Palestinians have sought refuge.
KUMASI, GHANA — A California museum on Thursday returned seven royal artefacts to Ghana’s traditional Ashanti king to commemorate his silver jubilee in the first planned handovers of treasures looted during colonial times.
Load more
