COTONOU, BENIN — Beninese authorities have introduced two new military medals to reward soldiers as the army grapples with a mounting jihadist threat on the country's northern border.
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA — More than two million people across the Horn of Africa have been forced from their homes by torrential rains and floods, according to an AFP tally compiled Thursday from government and U.N. figures.
ADDIS ABABA - Starvation, torture, robbery -- young Ethiopian migrant "returnees" recount the horrors they endured on their fruitless journeys in search of a better life in the Gulf
MOGADISHU - More than two million people across the Horn of Africa have been forced from their homes by torrential rains and floods, according to an AFP tally compiled Thursday from government and UN figures.
LOME - Togo's opposition fears an unfair vote after the government pushed back its timeline for parliamentary elections, the coordinator of the main coalition told AFP on Tuesday.
CONARKRY — Mamadou Pethe Diallo, Guinea's former health minister, who was fired earlier this month, has been charged with alleged acts of embezzling public funds and illicit enrichment, his lawyers said Thursday.
NAIROBI, KENYA — Ethiopia's central bank chief said the cash-strapped Horn of Africa nation has secured a $1.5 billion debt relief agreement with creditors.
NAIROBI - A court hearing opened in Nairobi on Wednesday into a lawsuit over the 2012 death of a young Kenyan mother who was last seen alive with a British soldier.
JOHANNESBURG - A South African court sentenced a man to 12 years in prison in the first conviction of an alleged instigator of riots that left hundreds of people dead in 2021, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Two passenger planes carrying tourists crash-landed at the same airport and on the same day in a Tanzanian national park, but officials said everyone on board survived unharmed.
KANO - Tiktoker Murja Kunya once ran afoul of sharia police in Nigeria's northwest city of Kano, where "hisbah" units enforce Islamic law that runs alongside common law.
WASHINGTON - Deadly floods in the Horn of Africa. Summer wildfires that ravaged Canadian forests. Global temperature records unprecedented in the history of humanity. Policymakers will be working to make progress on several intiatives.
LONDON / DUBAI - The UAE were accused this week of using its role as host of COP28 hosts to discuss fossil fuel deals with other governments, according to leaked documents.
JOHANNESBURG — Award-winning journalist Mariam Ouedraogo finds it impossible to forget the heartbreaking stories she has covered about sexual assault in Burkina Faso's jihadist war.
GENEVA — Four-time Olympic gold medal winner Mo Farah, who was born in Somalia and trafficked to Britain as a child, joined the U.N. migration agency on Tuesday as its first global goodwill ambassador.
BAMAKO — Mali's judiciary this week announced an investigation into several ethnic separatists and al-Qaida-linked jihadist leaders for terrorism and money laundering, as security deteriorates in the country.
HARARE — A prominent Zimbabwean opposition figure jailed since last year was found not guilty on Tuesday of one of several charges his supporters say are politically motivated.
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES — Hamas is willing to extend a truce for four days and release more Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a source close to the militant group said Wednesday, as mediators sought a lasting halt to the conflict.
The death toll from floods that have devastated many parts of Kenya has almost doubled to 120, a government official said Tuesday.
LILONGWE - Several hundred of young Malawi men have left for Israel to work on farms left deserted by an exodus sparked by the Gaza war, the labor ministry said on Monday.
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