KIGALI — Rwanda will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on July 15 next year, the election commission said Tuesday, with President Paul Kagame due to run for a fourth term in office.
JOHANNESBURG — Tributes flowed in Tuesday to award-winning South African singer Zahara — whose debut album made her an overnight pop sensation — after her death at the age of 36.
DUBAI - A quarter of freshwater fish species worldwide are at risk of extinction, according to an update to the global red list of threatened species on Monday, highlighting the escalating impacts of human-caused climate change on the planet's wildlife.
Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories — Heavy urban battles raged Monday in the bloodiest-ever war in Gaza, with more than 18,200 Palestinians and 104 Israeli soldiers reported dead amid a spiralling humanitarian crisis.
NAIROBI — The presidents of Kenya and Belarus agreed to "broaden ties" during talks in Nairobi on Monday, the Kenyan presidency said, as diplomatically-isolated Minsk seeks to secure more African allies.
DUBAI — The U.N. climate chief on Monday urged an end to obstruction a day before the deadline for a deal at a summit in Dubai, with oil producers resisting historic calls for the world to wind down fossil fuels.
GENEVA - The UN on Monday urged world leaders to revive the spirit that led to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 75 years ago, to counter today's widespread oppression and polarisation
BAMAKO — In a pullout ordered by Mali's military leaders, the United Nations mission in the country officially ended a 10-year deployment on Monday, its spokesperson said.
PORT SUDAN — The United Nations has only been able to reach a fraction of the nearly 25 million people needing aid in conflict-devastated Sudan, the head of the United Nations's humanitarian response in the country says.
JERUSALEM - Israel and Cyprus have foiled an Iranian plan to kill Israelis on the east Mediterranean island, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement on Sunday.
DUBAI - The United States is helping lead the charge at UN climate talks to phase out fossil fuels, but the superpower's status as the world's top oil producer is already casting doubt on its credibility.
DUBAI - Oil producers Saudi Arabia and Iraq stood their ground at UN climate talks on Sunday as they faced pressure to drop their opposition to a phase-out of fossil fuels at COP28 in Dubai.
HARARE — Zimbabwe opposition on Sunday said it would challenge the results of "sham" weekend by-elections, which could give the ruling party enough of a majority to change the constitution.
ABUJA — West African leaders met in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Sunday for talks on their region in deepening crisis, after four countries fell under military rule and with risks growing from Sahel jihadist conflicts.
ROME - Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a "prison bakery" where slaves and blindfolded donkeys were kept locked up underground to grind grain for bread, officials said this week.
KIGALI — A Rwandan genocide survivors' group on Sunday voiced anger that Laurent Bucyibaruta, a former official convicted of complicity in the 1994 massacres, died this week "without facing the full force of justice."
NAIROBI — Scientists this week said climate change caused by human activity made torrential rains that have lashed East Africa since October and killed more than 300 people.
Dozens of global traditions are candidates for inscription as intangible global heritage by UNESCO this week, ranging from Italian opera singing and Bangladeshi rickshaw art to the Peruvian delicacy of ceviche.
WASHINGTON — In parts of Africa, expert honey-hunters call out to a species of bird known as the greater honeyguide, which leads them to wild bee nests —a mutually beneficial practice.
In Cameroon's rural north, very few girls go on to enjoy careers in science. But Sabine Adeline Fanta Yadang, a neuroscience doctor, and Hadidjatou Dairou, PhD student of cellular physiology, have smashed through the glass ceiling.
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