BANGUI—A UN-backed court on Tuesday announced it had issued an arrest warrant for the Central African Republic's former president Francois Bozize over possible crimes against humanity committed by the military between 2009 and 2013.
PARIS—France held slightly more undocumented migrants in detention centers last year than in 2022, non-governmental organizations said on Tuesday, warning of increasing violence inside.
DAKAR—The national phase of a months-long "inter-Malian dialogue" is set to begin in six days' time, with the country's military junta banking on the conclusions to bolster its increasingly contested legitimacy.
NAIROBI—Kenyan President William Ruto convened a special cabinet meeting on Tuesday to discuss measures to tackle deadly floods that have killed nearly 170 people and displaced 185,000 others since March, his office said.
LONDON—The UK expects to deport nearly 6,000 migrants to Rwanda this year, a senior minister said Tuesday, after the government published new details on the controversial scheme.
EL AMRA, TUNISIA - Around 20,000 migrants are in isolated areas near the towns of El Amra and Jebeniana, Tunisia, some 30 and 40 kilometers (19 and 25 miles) north of the port city of Sfax, humanitarian sources say.
WASHINGTON—The United States has concluded that five Israeli security force units committed serious human rights violations against Palestinians in the West Bank before the Hamas attack in October, the State Department said Monday.
LONDON—Britain's prisons chief on Monday hit out at the "unacceptable" detention conditions faced by migrants, especially children, at an airport near London.
NAIROBI—Five people died when a bomb hidden on a donkey cart blew up in a Kenyan town on the border with Somalia on Monday, the interior minister said.
KIGALI —Rwandan authorities on Friday accused the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of making "baseless allegations" against Apple after Kinshasa accused the technology giant of using minerals smuggled from the country's volatile east in its products.
OUAGADOUGOU—The head of Burkina Faso's military regime, Ibrahim Traore, accused Ivory Coast on Friday of welcoming "all the destabilizers" of his country, adding there was a "problem with the authorities" in Abidjan.
LOME—With parades in the capital Lome, Togo's ruling party and the opposition closed campaigns on Saturday before legislative elections next week after a divisive constitutional reform that has fuelled political tensions.
MAUN, BOTSWANA—Herds of endangered hippos stuck in the mud of dried-up ponds are in danger of dying in drought-struck Botswana, conservation authorities told AFP Friday.
JERUSALEM—Diplomatic efforts increased on Sunday to reach a long sought-after truce and hostage-release deal in Gaza, as Israel carried out further air strikes and shelling on the war-battered territory.
BEIJING —Tech billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk met in Beijing on Sunday with China's number two official, Premier Li Qiang, who promised the country would "always" be open to foreign firms.
PORT SUDAN—Sudan has requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting on what it calls UAE "aggression" for allegedly supporting paramilitaries battling the army, a diplomatic source said Saturday.
LOME—Togo on Monday holds legislative elections after a highly divisive constitutional reform that opponents say paves the way for President Faure Gnassingbe to further extend his family's decadeslong grip on power.
NAIROBI — Somali authorities have detained members of an elite U.S.-trained commando unit for stealing food rations, according to two officials, as the Mogadishu government announced it would now assume the responsibility for provisions.
KIAMBU, Kenya — Desperate to have her five-month-old daughter treated for a skin infection in Kenya, Celine Nyaga rode for an hour on the back of a motorcycle, cradling her baby in her arms.
Ibrahim Mahama, a Ghanaian artist recently unveiled a huge art installation made of purple cloth on the side of London’s brutalist Barbican center. The West African’s artwork is 2,000 square meters and is called “Purple Hibiscus.” VOA’s Red Carpet has more.
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