JOHANNESBURG — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Thursday that an end to crippling power cuts was "within reach" and pledged thousands of new jobs in a key speech ahead of knife-edge elections this year.
THE HAGUE — Nicaragua has asked to formally join South Africa's genocide case against Israel, the U.N.'s top court said Thursday, with Managua claiming it had "interests of a legal nature" in the highly contested hearings.
KAMPALA - Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine says he has become 'emboldened' by Hollywood's recognition of a documentary chronicling his work.
ABUJA - West African foreign ministers hold emergency talks on Thursday confronted by a major political crisis in Senegal and weakened by disputes with military rulers in three coup-hit countries.
THIKA, KENYA - Guards working for US food giant Del Monte in Kenya are accused of beatings, rapes and killings.
TUNIS - Thirteen Sudanese migrants died on Thursday after their boat capsized off the coast of Tunisia, while 27 others remain missing, a court spokesperson told AFP.
DAKAR - Senegal opposition groups tried to mobilise Thursday after President Macky Sall sought to quell widespread public outcry at the delay to this month's presidential election, which has also drawn international condemnation.
ACCRA -- Used clothes coming from richer countries is contributing to pollution in Ghana and causing falling prices for the Ghanaian traders as the quality drops.
HOWICK, South Africa --Chris Pappas doesn't look like a typical politician in South Africa's key electoral battleground, the populous and mostly black province of KwaZulu-Natal. He has risen above the identity politics of KwaZulu-Natal to become mayor of the uMngeni Municipality and a candidate to perhaps run the entire province.
PARIS - The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor told AFP on Wednesday that he wants the tribunal to start trying suspects for "environmental crimes" without having to modify its founding statutes.
LONDON - Cocoa prices are smashing records almost daily in London and New York as bad weather destroys crops in Ghana and Ivory Coast, leading to a supply crunch. The two West African nations are the world's biggest producers of the commodity that is mostly used to make chocolate.
DAKAR - Senegal's opposition is caught between the desire to take to the streets to protest the suspension of scheduled presidential elections, or to take a more subtle approach to making their dissatisfaction known. .
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — Sudan’s rival forces have agreed to meet for talks on enabling desperately needed aid deliveries into their conflict-torn country, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
JERUSALEM - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday to push for a cease-fire as the Gaza war enters its fifth month.
DAKAR — Mali reaffirmed its exit from West African bloc ECOWAS, saying it was not bound by the organization's one-year timeframe for withdrawal, according to a foreign ministry document seen by AFP Wednesday.
DAKAR - Mobile internet access was re-established Wednesday in Senegal's capital Dakar, AFP journalists saw, two days after authorities cut access as the country grapples with its worst political crisis in decades.
KINSHASA - Conflict between M23 rebels and government forces is intensifying in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Masisi territory, residents said Wednesday, after days of unrest that have left dozens injured.
ABUJA, NIGERIA — Nigeria’s cabinet ministers have held emergency meetings over the economy and food prices as the government comes under pressure over the fallout from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's reforms.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — The United Nations on Wednesday appealed for $4.1 billion to provide desperately needed aid to civilians in conflict-stricken Sudan and for those who have fled as refugees, warning that fighting between rival forces in the nation had fueled "epic suffering."
Zimbabwe moved to abolish the death penalty on Tuesday, as the government backed legislation to do away with capital punishment nearly two decades after the last execution.
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