NAIROBI— Kenya's government has begun bulldozing homes built in flood-prone areas and promising evicted families the equivalent of $75 to relocate after a deadline passed to evacuate amid deadly rains.
TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance are suing the United States over a law that would ban the popular video-sharing app unless it’s sold to another company.
LOME— Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has signed a controversial new constitution that eliminates presidential elections, a move that opponents say will allow him to extend his family’s six-decade-long rule.
CAPE TOWN— Rescue teams worked through the night searching for dozens of construction workers buried for more than 12 hours under the rubble of concrete after a multi-story apartment complex that was being built collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa.
Liberia, West Africa's most forested country, has a long history of illegal logging, which the country's regulator, the Forestry Development Authority, has repeatedly struggled to confront.
ABUJA — A Nigerian journalist’s arrest last week has triggered criticism of worsening press freedoms in the West African country.
CAPE TOWN— A report into a building fire that killed 76 people in South Africa last year has concluded that city authorities should be held responsible because they were aware of serious safety issues at the rundown apartment block at least four years before the blaze.
NAIROBI— Students at a school next to Kenya's largest dumpsite are on a mission to try to purify the air with bamboo.
TBILISI, GEORGIA— Several thousand Georgians have marked Orthodox Easter with a candlelight vigil outside Parliament in the capital, Tbilisi. Daily protests are continuing against a proposed bill that critics say would stifle media freedom and obstruct the country's bid to join the European Union.
NAIROBI — The torrential rains and deadly floods that have hit Kenya since March have been some of the most catastrophic in the country in recent years.
KYIV, UKRAINE — As Ukraine marked its third Easter at war, Russia launched a barrage of drones concentrated in Ukraine’s east and claimed its troops took control of a village they had been targeting.
NAIROBI, Kenya— Cyclone Hidaya significantly weakened as it approached Tanzania's coastline, the country's meteorology department said Saturday.
MOLEPOLOLE, Botswana— At least 44 people who died in a horrific bus crash during Easter weekend in South Africa were laid to rest in neighboring Botswana on Saturday.
JUBA— Following an appeal from the United Nations, South Sudan removed recently imposed taxes and fees that had triggered suspension of U.N. food airdrops. Thousands of people in the country depend on aid from the outside.
JERUSALEM— Christian Orthodox worshippers in Jerusalem have thronged the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in one of the most chaotic gatherings in the Christian calendar.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA — A group of state Republican officials are working to reinforce the message that U.S. elections are secure and accurate, an approach they say is especially important as the country heads toward another divisive presidential contest.
LYPIVKA, Ukraine— An extraordinary church is bringing spiritual comfort to war-weary residents of the Ukrainian village of Lypivka this Orthodox Easter season. Two years ago it also provided physical refuge from the horrors outside.
WASHINGTON—Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children are expected to enroll in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance next year under a directive the Biden administration released Friday.
NAIROBI— African climate-tech startups are increasingly raising money from private sources, but while those funds for climate solutions are growing, a huge gap remains in meeting the actual financial needs for climate action in Africa.
KINSHASA, DRC — The Democratic Republic of the Congo is struggling to contain its biggest mpox outbreak, and scientists say a new form of the disease detected in a mining town might more easily spread among people.
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