N’DJAMENA — Chadian opposition politician Yaya Dillo was killed on Wednesday during an exchange of fire with security forces, prosecutor Oumar Mahamat Kedelaye said in a press conference on Thursday.
LONDON — Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi cannot be sued in Britain over allegations he accepted unlawful payments as part of his nation’s litigation over the decade-long "tuna bond" scandal, London's Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday.
HARARE— Africa's public debt will stay above pre-pandemic levels in 2024 and 2025, with many countries still at risk of falling into debt distress as they continue to struggle to service international loans, a U.N. official said on Wednesday.
NAIROBI — Waste produced by the public will surge by 2050, causing hundreds of billions of dollars of damage through biodiversity loss, climate change and deadly pollution, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) said in a report on Wednesday.
Top U.S. Senate Republican Mitch McConnell on Wednesday said he would not seek another term as the party's leader, marking an end to a record-setting career.
BEIJING — China’s President Xi Jinping promised to encourage firms with operations in his nation to invest in minerals-rich but economically ailing Sierra Leone as part of Beijing's long-term drive to deepen economic and political ties with Africa.
DUBAI — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday said part of the funds announced in the deal between his country and the United Arab Emirates to develop the Ras al-Hikma real estate project have arrived in the central bank.
BAMAKO — At least 31 people were killed in Mali on Tuesday when a bus plunged off a bridge over a river near the western town of Kenieba, the transport ministry said.
RABAT —A dispute over concentrated solar power (CSP) technology is behind years of delays to Morocco's biggest planned solar project after problems at another prominent plant that caused long shut downs, three sources close to the project said.
ABU DHABI — Ministers from across the globe are convening at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi to try to set new rules for global commerce, including reforming its dispute system and cutting fishing subsidies.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said Monday that Benin had offered 2,000 troops for a Kenya-led mission to tackle gang violence in Haiti. David Doyle of Reuters has more.
ABUJA — Nigeria's central bank delivered its largest rate hike in absolute terms in around 17 years on Tuesday to tame soaring inflation, amid nationwide trade union protests over price rises that have left people struggling to meet their basic needs.
BRASILIA —Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has set his sights on giving the Global South a larger voice in world decision-making, using his country's presidency this year of the G20 group of largest economies.
ROME — An Italian couple and their son, who were kidnapped in 2022 by an Islamist militant group in Mali, were freed late on Monday, the Italian government said.
DAKAR — Senegal's President Macky Sall on Monday urged participants in a national dialogue to reach a consensus on a date to hold a delayed presidential election, failing which he will ask the Constitutional Council to find his replacement when his mandate ends on April 2.
Benin has offered 2,000 “personnel” to support a planned Kenyan-led international force to help Haitian national police fight armed gangs, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a press conference on Monday.
CONAKRY — Two people were killed during clashes with police in the suburbs of Guinea's capital Conakry on Monday, their families and medical sources said.
WASHINGTON — The United States will appoint a new special envoy for Sudan on Monday, as Washington seeks to bring an end to a war that has wrecked parts of the country and killed tens of thousands of people.
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA/TOKYO — With their countries deeply divided over Israel's attacks on Gaza, finance officials from the Group of 20 major economies are poised to set aside geopolitics and focus on global economic issues when they meet in Sao Paulo, Brazil this week.
ABU DHABI —Trade ministers from around the world gathered in Abu Dhabi on Monday for a World Trade Organization meeting that aims to set new global commerce rules, but its chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and delegates sought to curb expectations.
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