Uganda's constitutional court on Wednesday refused to annul or suspend an anti-LGBTQ+ law that includes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts, but voided some provisions it said are inconsistent with certain fundamental human rights. Alice Rizzo of Reuters has more details.
PORT-AU-PRINCE—Diplomats at a regional Americas body on Wednesday urged Haitian politicians to move forward with a delayed plan to replace Prime Minister Ariel Henry with a transitional council, a move which could trigger the long-awaited deployment of an international security force.
Kenyan public hospital doctors who have been on strike since last month convened in two major cities on Tuesday to discuss their grievances against the government. Alice Rizzo of Reuters has more.
NAIROBI—Kenyan public hospital doctors rejected a government offer aimed at ending a weeks-long strike that has severely disrupted health services, their union chairman said late on Tuesday.
The last set of children from the more than 100 students and staff who were abducted from their school in Nigeria’s northwest on March 7 have returned home. Alice Rizzo of Reuters has more details on the relief felt by locals.
ABUJA—Nigeria plans to axe an electricity subsidy for 15% of consumers to reduce its 3.3 trillion naira ($2.6 billion) cost, part of a series of reforms to ease pressure on public finances, presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga said on Tuesday.
KAMPALA — Uganda's constitutional court is due on Wednesday to deliver a verdict on a petition seeking to annul the nation’s tough Anti-Homosexuality Act, AHA, lawyers who are representing the petitioners said on Tuesday.
Nigerian swimmer Samuel Akinrodoye has tried to raise awareness of mental health issues in Africa's most populous nation, swimming nearly 12 km — the length of the longest bridge in Lagos where many people have jumped to their deaths. Alice Rizzo of Reuters has more details.
NAIROBI — Kenyan public hospital doctors who have been on strike since last month convened in two major cities on Tuesday to discuss their grievances against the government.
JUBA — Youths attacked a village in eastern South Sudan and shot dead at least 12 people while 15 children are missing, officials said on Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa expects to increase citrus exports this year as younger trees begin to produce and help to offset the impact of infrastructure challenges and higher input costs, the national growers' association said on Tuesday.
CAIRO—The next review of Egypt's IMF loan program should be completed by the end of June, when authorities will be able to draw on a further $820 million, an IMF official said on Monday, after an expanded loan program was agreed last month.
JERUSALEM/CAIRO—Israeli forces left Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Monday after a two-week operation, leaving a wasteland of destroyed buildings and Palestinian bodies scattered in the dirt.
BAMAKO — Malian political parties have requested a time frame for presidential elections after the ruling junta failed to organize polls within a promised 24-month transitional period back to democracy.
The residence of Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah was targeted with rocket-propelled grenades on Sunday in an attack that left no casualties, a Libyan minister told Reuters.
CAIRO— Israeli strikes killed 77 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours, health authorities said on Sunday, as Egypt hosted an Israeli delegation for a new round of talks in a bid to secure a truce with Gaza's Hamas rulers.
CUTUD, PHILIPPINES—Catholic devotees were nailed to crosses in sweltering heat north of the Philippines capital Manila on Good Friday in a re-enactment of Jesus Christ's crucifixion.
KAMPALA—The son of UgandanPresident Yoweri Museveni has pledged to fight corruption in the military after taking over as its top commander, a move widely expected to accelerate his rise to eventually succeed his father.
CAPE TOWN— Bored of buying eggs made of chocolate and wrapped in foil with predictable bunny motifs? This Easter in South Africa you could instead spend your cash an egg that will hatch a live penguin. But these ones are not for taking home.
A bus crash in South Africa's northern province of Limpopo resulted in 45 deaths and one serious injury, the nation’s Department of Transport said on Thursday.
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