ABUJA — Three West African nations led by military juntas met this week to strengthen a newly formed alliance described by some analysts on Friday as an attempt to legitimize their military governments amid coup-related sanctions and strained relations with neighbors.
FREETOWN —Sierra Leone's government said it was in full control on Sunday evening after reporting an attack at a military armory in the capital Freetown that sparked armed clashes, which the president called an attempt to destabilise the state.
N'Djamena —Chad began campaigning Saturday for a vote on a new constitution, in a perceived test of legitimacy for the ruling junta and the Itno dynasty's 30-year reign.
NAIROBI —Kenya is drawing up measures to tackle a flood disaster that has killed 70 people and driven tens of thousands from their homes, President William Ruto said on Saturday, describing it as an "emergency situation."
PARIS —Families and children kidnapped from Israel's southern Kibbutz Beeri were among the 13 Israeli hostages released by Hamas on Saturday, according to accounts given to AFP by their relatives, Israeli press, and the Hostage Families Forum.
PARIS —Growing calls for the world to come to grips with the many ways that global warming affects human health have prompted the first day dedicated to the issue at crunch UN climate talks starting next week.
COPENHAGEN — How was the air breathed by Caesar, the Prophet Mohammed or Christopher Columbus? A giant freezer in Copenhagen holds the answers, storing blocks of ice with atmospheric tales thousands of years old.
COPENHAGEN — Misuse of antibiotics is denting their efficacy and spawning resistant bacteria which could be responsible for 10 million deaths worldwide by 2050, the World Health Organization warned this week.
RIO De JANEIRO — Brazil's emissions surged under far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, erasing recent progress to return to the levels of more than 15 years ago, a report said Thursday, urging the country to increase its carbon-cutting targets.
BAHLA', OMAN — Deep in Oman's parched interior, the ancient oasis town of Bahla abounds with myths of camel-eating, fire-mouthed hyenas and men turning into donkeys — a reputation for magic and mystery that persists to this day.
DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA — The body of a Tanzanian student who went missing in Israel after the deadly October 7 Hamas attack is due to be returned home on Sunday, his family said.
ANTANANARIVO — President Andry Rajoelina has been reelected in the first round of a ballot boycotted by nearly all opposition candidates in the Indian Ocean island nation, the election commission said Saturday.
GENEVA — The United Nations called Friday for an independent investigation after an opposition activist in Zimbabwe was found dead following his abduction ahead of controversial by-elections.
NICE, FRANCE — An Algerian footballer from OGC Nice — a club in the French first division championship — will be tried on December 18 for provoking hatred on the grounds of religion after an Instagram post linked to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, prosecutors announced Friday.
PRETORIA — South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius was granted early release from prison on parole on Friday, a decade after he killed his girlfriend, in a crime that gripped the world, prison authorities said.
DUBAI — King Charles III, Pope Francis and COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber might grab headlines at next week's COP28 in Dubai, but they are not the only people who will play an important role at the crunch UN climate conference.
JERUSALEM — Devoid of visitors, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City is haunted by an unusual quiet. The holiest place in Christianity has been emptied of its normal throngs of visitors by the war between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip.
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories—A doctor at Gaza's largest hospital Al-Shifa says the facility's director and several other medical personnel were arrested by Israeli forces on Thursday.
MAPUTO —Mozambique's parliament on Thursday passed draft legislation to up the minimum period of compulsory military service from two to five years, a move the government said aimed to increase professionalism in the armed forces.
N'DJAMENA —Chad's military rulers on Thursday announced a general amnesty ending prosecution and guilty verdicts over the deaths of hundreds of protesters in a 2022 anti-government rally, a minister told AFP.
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