JOHANNESBURG - South Africa will send 2,900 troops as part of its contribution to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) force deployed to tackle armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the president's office said in a statement on Monday.
CAIRO/DUBAI - A communications network blackout in Sudan, blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, has hobbled aid delivery and left the war-weary population of almost 50 million unable to make payments or contact the outside world.
ABIDJAN — Success for the home team in Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations final ensured a storybook ending to a riveting tournament, with the Ivory Coast celebrating success both on and off the field.
HARARE — Zimbabwe is working on new measures to stabilize its local currency including linking the exchange rate to hard assets such as gold and creating a currency board, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said on Monday.
ABIDJAN — Sebastien Haller scored the winning goal nine minutes from the end as hosts Ivory Coast claimed a third Africa Cup of Nations title with a 2-1 victory over Nigeria in the final at the Alassane Ouattara Stadium in Abidjan on Sunday.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X only met once, but their coming-of-age stories run parallel in family, community, loss and sacrifice as shown in National Geographic's anthology series "Genius: MLK/X."
PARIS - Two European officials criticized Donald Trump on Sunday after comments the former U.S. president made about not protecting NATO allies who aren't paying enough from a potential Russian invasion.
FILE - The mental ability and age of the United States' presidential candidates took center stage on the campaign trail on Saturday, following a report that suggested President Joe Biden was suffering memory lapses.
ABIDJAN — Ivory Coast interim coach Emerse Fae has a chance on Sunday to join an elite list of Africa Cup of Nations-winning managers just weeks after taking charge of a first senior match when his side come up against Nigeria in the final in Abidjan.
DOHA/JERUSALEM - Israeli forces geared up on Friday for a ground assault on Hamas in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of people displaced by violence further north are trapped in desperate conditions.
ABIDJAN — Ivory Coast can complete a remarkable recovery and put a successful seal on an absorbing Africa Cup of Nations tournament if they can beat Nigeria on Sunday and claim the title on home soil.
GENEVA — UNICEF said on Friday that 700,000 children in Sudan were likely to suffer from the worst form of malnutrition this year, with tens of thousands who could die.
ABIDJAN — Ivory Coast ended almost two decades of home misery at the Africa Cup of Nations by becoming the first tournament hosts to reach the final since Egypt in 2006.
The Democratic Republic of Congo army is battling advances by the M23 rebels in the conflict-ridden east, in fighting that has uprooted thousands more civilians around the city of Goma and threatens to isolate the strategic urban hub. Rachel Faber of Reuters produced this report.
MADRID - The head of the European Commission and Spain's prime minister visited Mauritania on Thursday and promised more funding for the West African country to curb irregular migration to Europe amid a jump in departures.
LUSAKA - The United States will provide more funds for the construction of the Lobito Corridor, a rail link to export metals from Central Africa's Copperbelt, including a link for Zambia, U.S. energy envoy Amos Hochstein said.
ABUJA — A senior ECOWAS official on Thursday said the decision passed by junta-led Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to leave the West African regional bloc was hasty and did not account the conditions for withdrawal.
ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia's parliament on Thursday approved the appointment of intelligence service chief Temesgen Tiruneh as deputy prime minister, replacing Demeke Mekonnen, who had served in the role for 11 years, state-run media reported.
HARARE — Zimbabwe's central bank and finance ministry are working on measures to stabilize the local currency, the central bank governor said.
When Senegal's President Macky Sall announced that a February 25 election would be delayed, the West African country veered into unchartered constitutional territory. David Doyle of Reuters reports on what's happening now and why it's significant.
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