Ouagadougou --A human rights group in Burkina Faso denounced on Sunday the "massive and targeted requisition of citizens" critical of the ruling junta's anti-jihadist fight since a "general mobilisation" decree increased the state's powers.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — A high-ranking South African Rugby Union, SARU, official Sunday said Rassie Erasmus, South Africa's director of rugby, will return as coach of the national team and succeed Jacques Nienaber.
NAIROBI, KENYA — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday said the United States overestimated its value to the East African nation after Washington decided to remove Kampala from a major trade pact over human rights violations.
NEW YORK — Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola produced a devastating performance to win the New York Marathon in a new course record on Sunday, while Kenya's Hellen Obiri pipped Letsenbet Gidey to claim the women's race.
NICOSIA, CYPRUS — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday to discuss a maritime aid corridor from the island to the heavily bombarded and besieged Gaza Strip.
SCHIPOL, NETHERLANDS — Famed globally for an obsession with bikes and especially vulnerable to climate change due to its low-lying location, the Netherlands is proud of its "World Champion" status for EV charging points, with the EU's densest network.
NAIROBI - More than 20 people have died and over 12,000 others have been forced out of their homes in Ethiopia's Somali region due to flash flooding triggered by torrential rains, the regional government said Saturday.
The United Nations warned this week that the situation in Sudan's western Darfur region was getting worse by the day, while women and girls were being kidnapped and held in slave-like conditions.
PARIS - The Emirati oil boss preparing to take the helm of UN climate talks said he is stunned to hear that environmentalists suspect him of duplicity on climate change.
ABU DHABI - A demand for targets for the phase-out of fossil fuels in the final agreement of COP28 in Dubai is not frivolous but an urgent request backed by "crystal clear" science, Europe's climate commissioner told AFP on Tuesday.
ACCRA - Ghana's ruling NPP party on Saturday elected the country's Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia as their candidate for the 2024 presidential ballot, according to results from primaries released by the electoral commission.
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah engaged in cross-border clashes on Saturday, with both claiming to have hit each other's positions along the frontier.
RAFAH, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES — Israeli ground troops fighting to destroy Hamas militants on Friday surrounded Gaza City as top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken arrived in the Middle Eastern nation for a trip focused on "concrete steps" to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties.
KAMPALA, UGANDA — Ugandan authorities Friday announced that the captured commander of the Allied Democratic Forces squad alleged to have killed two foreign tourists last month also led a massacre at a school in June that left dozens dead.
KAMPALA - Uganda said Thursday it has captured the head of a militia squad blamed for the murder of two honeymooning foreign tourists and their local guide in a national park last month.
NANYUKI, KENYA - The British Army Training Unit in Kenya (BATUK), a permanent base around 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Nairobi, is an economic lifeline for many in Nanyuki, but has proved a lightning rod for criticism.
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Human Rights Watch on Thursday called on the United Nations and the international community to "maintain pressure" on the Ethiopian government to ensure justice for victims of atrocities, one year after the end of the Tigray war.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — A summit on trade relations between Africa and the United States got under way in South Africa on Thursday, as Pretoria and Washington mend relations after a spat over accusations that the former has cozied up to Russia.
LONDON — The abbreviation of artificial intelligence, AI, has been named the Collins Word of the Year for 2023, the dictionary publisher said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — The United States said Wednesday that its first citizens were able to leave the war-hit Gaza Strip after weeks of diplomacy, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to return to Israel and Jordan. An Egyptian official said that 335 foreigners and 76 wounded Palestinians were allowed to cross on, without a breakdown by nationality.
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