The European Union, EU, condemned on Sunday an escalation of violence in Sudan's Darfur region, warning of the danger of "another genocide" after conflict there between 2003-2008 killed some 300,000 people and displaced more than 2 million.
PRETORIA — South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns won the inaugural African Football League on Sunday, beating Wydad Casablanca of Morocco 2-0 in the second leg of the final at Loftus Versfeld.
KARATINA, KENYA — In the shadows of Mount Kenya, brown sacks of coffee beans pile up in factories and milling facilities, stranded after the government embarked on its reform to improve payments to farmers and dilute the power of multinational buyers.
The United Nations has described floods that uprooted hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia and neighboring countries in East Africa following a historic drought as a once-in-a-century event.
JOHANNESBURG - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the deployment of 3,300 army personnel to help combat illegal mining activities, Ramaphosa's office said in a statement on Thursday.
ABUJA — Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has signed into law a $2.8 billion supplementary budget that includes funding for new bulletproof cars for himself and his wife, despite widespread criticism from citizens facing a cost-of-living crisis.
GAZA/JERUSALEM --Air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed a top Hamas weapons maker and several fighters, the Israeli military said on Wednesday, as its air and ground offensive targeted the militants' vast tunnel network beneath the besieged Palestinian enclave.
Residents of Ethiopia's medieval holy city of Lalibela said fighting broke out between the army and regional milita on Wednesday, but the government said the area was peaceful.
DUBAI / CAIRO - The warring Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have committed to easing humanitarian aid deliveries and implementing confidence-building measures, mediators in talks in Jeddah said via Saudi state news agency SPA on Tuesday.
PARIS - France is in talks with Egypt to establish a military medical facility on the ground, which would include surgical capacities for people seriously wounded in the neighbouring Gaza Strip, France's defence minister said in remarks published on Monday.
GAZA — Israeli fighter jets struck 450 Hamas targets in Gaza and troops seized a militant compound in the past 24 hours, Israel's military said on Monday, in attacks the enclave's health authorities said killed dozens of people.
DOHA - Qatar's foreign ministry said on Sunday that without a "period of calm" in Gaza its mediators would not be able to secure the release of Israeli hostages held there.
BEIRUT, JERUSALEM — An Israeli strike on a car in south Lebanon killed three children and their grandmother on Sunday, Lebanese authorities said, as the Israeli army said an attack from Lebanon killed an Israeli citizen in northern Israel.
CAIRO, EGYPT — Egyptian sources Sunday said evacuations of injured Gazans and foreign passport holders through the Rafah crossing were suspended since Saturday; however, Cairo is working with U.S. and Qatari officials for their resumption.
LONDON — Climate change is accelerating and the world will cross the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) warming threshold this decade, according to research published on Thursday that scientists said should raise alarms at this year's COP28 climate talks.
NAIROBI — Apparel has been the standout success story of AGOA, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which launched in 2000 to help develop African economies and foster democracy.
LOS ANGELES — In a drive to ensure wildlife caught up in the trade can survive and thrive, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has partnered with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums to launch a pilot Wildlife Confiscations Network in southern California.
Cough syrup has been linked to death of more than 200 children
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Friday warned the United States that if Israel, an ally of Washington, did not stop its assault on Gaza then the conflict could widen into a regional war.
President Joe Biden's administration wants to work with Congress to improve the United States' flagship trade program with Africa, not just renew it without changes, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.
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