A United Nations-backed study that was released Wednesday reports that major fossil fuel-producing countries still plan to extract more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with the Paris climate accord’s goal for limiting the rise of global temperature.
PORT SUDAN, SUDAN — Sudanese police on Wednesday forcibly evicted hundreds of civilians sheltering at a school in the eastern state of Gedaref, eyewitnesses said, as the army and paramilitaries battled in Khartoum.
BAMAKO — Mali's army said Wednesday that it had fired on two armored vehicles left by the United Nations peacekeeping mission as it withdrew, which had been taken over by "terrorists" in the strategic northern town of Kidal.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — The United Nation's World Meteorological Organization Wednesday said the El Nino weather phenomenon that has led to drought in several regions, Africa included, is expected to last until at least 2024.
PARIS - Israel is organising showings for media around the world of a film depicting Hamas' October 7 massacre of hundreds of Israeli citizens, assembling raw footage sourced from victims and perpetrators alike.
JERUSALEM - Quiet sobs during memorial speeches, mourning crowds lighting candles... Israel fell silent briefly on Tuesday, marking one month since the deadly Hamas attacks of October 7 plunged it into war.
WASHINGTON - Families of Israelis taken hostage by Hamas went to Capitol Hill Tuesday pleading for US support, as they described days that felt like an "eternity" while waiting for news of loved ones.
BAMAKO - Mali's army said Tuesday it carried out air strikes on "terrorist targets" in the rebel stronghold of Kidal where witnesses and separatists said civilians, including children, died in the attack.
GENEVA — Deaths from tuberculosis dipped last year amid a dramatic increase in diagnosis and treatment of the world's second deadliest disease, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — South African police Tuesday said Transport Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga and her bodyguards were robbed off their guns in an "unprecedented incident."
ANTANANARIVO — A fresh protest by supporters of Madagascar's opposition was dispersed on Monday, and one of its candidates for an upcoming presidential election briefly detained, police said.
ZABARMARI, Nigeria - Jihadists have killed at least 11 farmers and several others are missing after an attack on rice fields in Nigeria's northeast Borno State, anti-jihadist militia and residents said Monday.
CONAKRY - Guinea's ruling junta has purged 58 members of the security services and called for calm after a jailbreak saw armed commandos pluck ex-dictator Moussa Dadis Camara from prison and left nine dead.
Donald Trump testified in a New York court on Monday in the civil fraud case threatening to cripple his real estate empire, the first former U.S. president to take the stand as a defendant in more than a century.
Separatist rebels killed nearly 20 people, including women and children, in an attack on a village in one of Cameroon's restive Anglophone regions, the government said Monday.
BITZARON, ISRAEL - When young Israeli Irene Shavit spoke to her mother after her first date with Netta Epstein, she said she was "already in love" but feared it could "end badly."
NAIROBI, KENYA — Humanitarian group Red Cross on Monday said at least 15 people died in Kenya as floods swept away scores of houses and devastated farmland following torrential rains.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — South African officials Monday said they would be recalling all of their diplomats based in Israel to "signal" the nation's concern over the situation in Gaza.
CONAKRY — At least nine people were killed during a weekend jailbreak in Guinea that saw armed commandos briefly pluck ex-dictator Moussa Dadis Camara from prison, officials said on Monday.
JERUSALEM - Fighting raged in Gaza Sunday for the 30th day since Hamas militants stormed across the Israeli border and, according to Israeli officials, killed more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and abducted over 240 others.
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