LAGOS— The Lagos Food Bank is a crucial lifeline to residents, but has seen supplies from private and other donors fall as inflation soars in Africa's biggest economy.
DAKAR — Early results in Senegal's presidential polls suggested opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye may have clinched an outright majority, though his rival in the ruling coalition said a run-off vote would be needed to determine the winner.
JERUSALEM— Israel signaled openness on Sunday to allowing the return of Palestinians displaced from the northern Gaza Strip as part of truce talks, an apparent accommodation of a core Hamas demand.
CAIRO—The Islamic State on Saturday claimed responsibility for an attack on Niger's army that it said had killed 30 soldiers on Wednesday.
A long line of blocked relief trucks on Egypt's side of the border with the Gaza Strip where people face starvation is a moral outrage, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said during a visit to the Rafah crossing on Saturday.
The Indian navy handed over 35 Somali pirates to the police in Mumbai on Saturday, after 100 days of anti-piracy operations east of the Red Sea, where piracy has resurfaced for the first time in nearly a decade.
Nigeria's army has rescued 17 students and a woman who were kidnapped in a dawn raid by armed men two weeks ago in northwest Sokoto state, the state governor said on Saturday.
The Tunisia public prosecutor detained prominent journalist Mohamed Boughalleb on Friday on suspicion of insulting a public official, which the journalists union said was aimed at silencing the voices of journalists.
Patients have been left without emergency care in Kenya’s hospitals as a national strike over better pay and working condition enters its second week. Doctors took to the streets in protest on Friday. David Doyle of Reuters has the details.
Residents in a coastal South African town reacted with shock on Friday after the apparent suicide of former Steinhoff chief executive Markus Jooste. David Doyle of Reuters has more details.
At least 65 migrants' bodies have been discovered in a mass grave in southwest Libya, the International Organization for Migration, IOM said on social media platform X, formerly Twitter, on Friday.
US resolution says cease-fire ‘imperative’
ADDIS ABABA — An International Monetary Fund staff mission is in Ethiopia, a senior finance ministry official said on Thursday, as the nation faces a deadline with major creditor countries to secure a loan from the international lender.
KAMPALA— Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has appointed his son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, as head of the military, the defense ministry said on Friday.
NIAMEY — Militants killed at least 23 Nigerien soldiers and wounded 17 more during an attack on a military unit in the northwestern corner of the nation on Wednesday, the defense ministry said.
NAIROBI—Kenya has demanded that TikTok show it is adhering to local privacy and user verification laws, the interior minister said on Thursday, saying the platform has been used to spread propaganda, carry out fraud and distribute sexual content.
Having been dormant for nearly a decade, a recent rise in piracy off the coast of Somalia is increasing costs of global shipping companies already grappling with Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. David Doyle of Reuters has more details.
ACCRA—Ghana's speaker of parliament has said President Nana Akufo-Addo's refusal to act on an anti-LGBTQ bill for the time being was unconstitutional and that parliament would stop approving new ministerial appointments.
LAGOS— Nigeria's human rights commission said on Tuesday it had concluded hearings into an investigation of a Reuters report that the military ran a secret abortion program in its fight against Islamist insurgents in the northeast.
JUBA — Unidentified youths shot dead 15 people in South Sudan's Pibor region, including its commissioner, a senior official said on Wednesday, in the latest flare-up of violence in the country.
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