Nigeria’s huge oil refinery built by Africa's richest man Aliko Dangote received its first crude deliveries, the company said on Saturday, in the latest step to starting up the delayed megaproject.
UN peacekeepers on Friday handed over one of their last camps to the Malian authorities as part of a pull-out ordered by the country's military leaders, a UN spokeswoman said.
Burundi's Supreme Court sentenced ousted prime minister Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni to life in prison on Friday on charges including attempting to overthrow the government and threatening the life of the president, a judicial source said.
Rebel miners blockaded more than 440 workers underground in a South African gold mine Friday amid tensions that include a murder this week, the operator said.
The son of Somalia's president — alleged to have knocked over and killed a delivery rider in Istanbul — has fled Turkey despite an international arrest warrant, media reported Saturday.
Zimbabwe started a series of by-elections on Saturday with the opposition in turmoil after being excluded from voting lists.
Israel bombarded targets in Gaza on Saturday after the United States blocked an extraordinary UN bid for a cease-fire in the war with Hamas that has triggered alerts of an "apocalyptic" humanitarian situation.
DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA STRIP — Desperation is growing among Palestinians largely cut off from supplies of food and water as Israeli forces engaged in fierce urban battles with Hamas militants. Strikes in the southern Gaza town of Rafah sowed fear in one of the last places where civilians could seek refuge.
KINSHASA — Problems are plaguing the electoral process in the Democratic Republic of Congo, just two weeks ahead of polling, with many voters rushing to replace ineligible voter cards.
GENEVA — United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said he saw promising signs this week that a major crossing from Israel into Gaza might be opened soon to allow in aid.
The United Nations said Friday it hopes the multinational security force heading to Haiti to help combat violent gangs will deploy before April.
From the worst drought in forty years in the Horn of Africa to record-breaking heatwaves in Argentina, extreme weather prompted by climate change is threatening to disrupt global agriculture, even in temperate zones previously spared.
DAR ES SALAAM — Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan Thursday visited the scene of landslides in the north of the country that left dozens of people dead, declaring the tragedy a "wake-up call" for the government.
HARARE — The Harare High Court on Thursday barred Citizens Coalition for Change opposition candidates from running in by-elections on Saturday, a verdict that could pave way for the ruling ZANU-PF party to get closer to changing the constitution.
DAKAR — Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, also known by its French acronym RSF, Thursday condemned the Mali's military leaders' for "continuing silence" over the abduction of two journalists last month.
WASHINGTON —Authoritarian states are increasingly targeting journalists working in exile as part of government reprisal campaigns against dissidents living outside their countries, U.S.-based rights group Freedom House said in a new report.
GAZA STRIP, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES —Heavy urban combat raged in and around Gaza's biggest cities Thursday as the bloodiest ever war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas entered its third month since the October 7 attacks.
DUBAI — From meditation to spiritual guidance to indigenous hymns, the vibe in the "faith pavilion" at COP28 is a little different to elsewhere at the high-stakes United Nations climate talks in Dubai.
WASHINGTON — Could a second Donald Trump presidency slide into dictatorship? A sudden spate of dystopian warnings has got America talking about the possibility less than a year before the U.S. elections.
GOMA — The squalid displacement camps near the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo stands as a testament to the government's struggle to solve insecurity, a key issue ahead of elections later this month.
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