RAFAH, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES — It takes a while but slowly the children gathered around volunteer entertainer Ruaa Hassuna in a Gaza camp start clapping along as her music offers some respite from the horrors around them.
BRUSSELS -The EU reached a landmark preliminary agreement on Wednesday to reform its laws on asylum-seekers and irregular migrants.
DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court is removing former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot, saying he is ineligible to be president after his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
MONTPELLIER, FRANCE — A French elderly couple on Tuesday saw its request to cancel the 4.2-million-eurosale of a rare African mask that they sold for 150 euros thrown out, with the court calling their claim frivolous. The court also threw out a separate motion by the government of Gabon to have the sale cancelled and the mask returned.
RUSTENBURG, South Africa - More than 2,000 workers were occupying a South African platinum mine for a second day Tuesday as the owners upped the pressure to end one of the country's biggest mine protests in years.
WAD MADANI — Sudanese paramilitaries on Monday pressed deeper into the former safe haven of Wad Madani, the capital of Al-Jazira state where they also seized the town of Rufaa, witnesses said.
OUGADOUGOU - Burkina Faso's military leaders on Monday accused jihadist groups of committing "massacres" against civilians in the north of the country and urged the population not to believe videos purportedly showing abuses by Burkina soldiers.
CAIRO — Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has won a third term with 89.6% of the vote in the Arab world's most populous nation, the national election authority said Monday.
Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories — Israel faced mounting international pressure Monday over the rising civilian death toll and destruction of hospitals in Gaza, as it pressed on with its war against Hamas militants in the besieged Palestinian territory.
KAMPALA — A Ugandan constitutional court on Monday began hearing the first challenge to a draconian anti-gay law that has triggered criticism from the United Nations and led to visa restrictions by the United States on government officials.
KINSHASA — Presidential candidates in Democratic Republic of Congo were due to hold final election rallies on Monday after a tense campaign that has largely passed off calmly but raised doubts about whether the vote can be organized on time.
NAIROBI - Kenya's foreign ministry said on Sunday it "strongly disassociates" with a Congolese opposition figure who forged an alliance with rebels while in Nairobi, spurring diplomatic fury with Kinshasa.
PARIS - Consulting giant McKinsey & Company sought to place controversial carbon market schemes favored by its fossil fuel clients at the heart of the Africa Climate Summit, according to internal documents and sources who talked to AFP.
Gedeon, 22, driving his auto-rickshaw through the bustling streets of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa, said he never imagined he would end up doing the job he does.
KINSHASA — The Democratic Republic of Congo's democracy has been backsliding ahead of elections this month, according to rights defenders, as prominent journalists languish in prison and the murder of an opposition politician remains unsolved.
ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR — President Andry Rajoelina took the oath in a packed stadium on Saturday to start a new term as Madagascar's leader, rebuffing an opposition boycott and international concerns over the island's future.
Bravian Mise hits a series of grand jetes — leaping like a gazelle across the cramped living room — and pirouettes during an exhaustive rehearsal at his home in a Kenyan slum.
The Israeli army, also known as the Israeli Defense Forces, IDF, said its troops shot and killed three hostages on Friday after "mistakenly" identifying them as a threat during its ground operation in the Gaza Strip.
GENEVA — The World Health Organization warned on Friday that the mpox epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo could spread internationally, as sexual transmissions accelerate.
Fighting between armed groups and the army in northwest Nigeria has forced international aid group Medecins sans Frontieres, MSF, to evacuate some of its staff in the area, the agency said Friday.
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