ABIDJAN — Ivory Coast's interim coach Emerse Fae has urged his team to go into Wednesday's Africa Cup of Nations semi-final against the Democratic Republic of Congo with the mindset that has allowed the hosts to make a "miraculous" recovery from the brink of elimination at the tournament.
DAKAR - President Macky Sall prides himself on having transformed Senegal during his 12 years in power, from implementing reforms to launching major infrastructure projects. But will controversy over his temporary suspension of elections taint his reputation?
Armed attackers from a neighboring state killed or burned to death 18 people, including eight soldiers, in South Sudan's Western Bahr el Gazal state, the state's interim governor said Tuesday.
BOUAKE, IVORY COAST — Nigerian forward and 2023 CAF Footballer of the Year Victor Osimhen is available to play in Wednesday's Africa Cup of Nations semifinal against South Africa following a fitness scare, the team confirmed.
DAKAR, SENEGAL — West Africa’s regional ECOWAS bloc on Tuesday said it "encourages" member state Senegal to urgently restore the electoral timetable after this month's presidential election was delayed until December 15.
TUNIS -The families of 40 Tunisian migrants who went missing in the Mediterranean Sea last month protested in Tunis on Tuesday, asking authorities for answers.
DAKAR - The Senegalese opposition on Tuesday denounced a "constitutional coup" after parliament voted to delay the presidential election by 10 months, plunging the normally stable country into its worst crisis in decades.
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday denied that people were dying of hunger in the drought- and conflict-wracked country, which is grappling with a food crisis.
BUNIA, DRC -At least 11 villagers have died in attacks blamed on the ADF rebel group in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said on Tuesday.
NAIROBI - Kenyan police said Tuesday they had arrested the main suspect in a deadly gas blast that triggered a huge fireball in a densely populated area of Nairobi last week.
MALINDI, Kenya — A Kenyan court on Tuesday charged the leader of a starvation cult and dozens of suspected accomplices with murder over the deaths of nearly 200 people in a forest near the Indian Ocean.
BRAZZAVILLE, CONGO - The African Union on Monday urged an end to "external interference" in Libya, which has been torn by a devastating civil war since 2011.
ROME - Italy's public prosecutor opened an inquest into the suicide of a Guinean asylum seeker who had spent months in a detention center, a legal source said on Monday.
PARIS — At least one child dies every two hours in the Zamzam camp for displaced people in war-torn Sudan, French charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, said on Monday, urging an international response.
KANO - At least 35 women are missing after kidnappers seized guests returning from a wedding in northwestern Nigeria, officials told AFP on Monday.
NAIROBI - The death toll from a gas explosion in Nairobi last week has risen to six after three more victims died from their burns, the government's spokesperson said Sunday.
LAGOS - Unidentified gunmen killed four police officers in Nigeria's northeast Borno province, police said in a statement.
WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed Sunday on a new crisis tour of the Middle East as he seeks to push forward a proposal to halt the devastating conflict in return for the release of hostages.
DAKAR - Protesters and police clashed in the Senegalese capital Dakar and at least one senior opposition figure was arrested Sunday, a day after President Macky Sall announced the indefinite postponement of the presidential election.
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories - Israeli strikes across Gaza killed scores overnight and battles raged Sunday in the besieged territory's south as Hamas was reviewing a proposal for a halt in the nearly four-month-long war.
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