ABUJA - Nigeria’s lawmakers have approved the new government’s first supplemental budget, which includes huge allocations for SUVs and houses for the president, his wife and other public officials, sparking anger and criticism from citizens in one of the world’s poorest countries.
COPENHAGEN - The Nordic governments intend to step up their cooperation to return immigrants without legal residence in the region to their countries of origin, ministers from the five countries said in a joint press conference in Copenhagen on Tuesday.
DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA - Germany will open talks with Tanzania about the legacy of its three decades of colonial rule in the East African nation, the two countries' presidents said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON - The United States and other countries are looking at "a variety of possible permutations" for the future of the Gaza Strip if Hamas militants are removed from control, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.
NAIROBI — King Charles said on Tuesday he felt the "greatest sorrow and deepest regret" for atrocities suffered by Kenyans during their struggle for independence from British colonial rule.
GENEVA — A "public health catastrophe" is imminent in Gaza, the World Health Organization, WHO, said on Tuesday, amid overcrowding, mass displacement and damage to water and sanitation infrastructure.
ADDIS ABABA — Dozens of civilians have been killed this month by drone strikes and house-to-house searches in Ethiopia's Amhara region, where authorities have touted security gains since conflict erupted in July, a state-appointed human rights commission said on Monday.
Democratic Republic of Congo spent $324 million, or seven times as much as planned, to host the delay-plagued International Francophone Games in July, Finance Minister Nicolas Kazadi said.
ABUJA - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday his country was willing to invest in gas andcritical minerals in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer.
IZMIR, TURKEY — While efforts have focused on reducing waste, brands and designers are increasingly endorsing projects in regenerative agriculture to help reduce the emissions produced in the manufacture of classic textiles, such as cotton and wool.
JOHANNESBURG — A South African violist has used music and art to explore the painful legacy of how laborers at wineries in the Western Cape province were for centuries given wine as part of their payment, a practice known as "the Dop System."
Elon Musk, the co-founder of Space X's Startlink Saturday said his company will support communication links in Gaza to "internationally recognized aid organizations" — a response to telephone and internet blackouts in the war affected Palestinian territory.
HARARE — Zimbabwe's government will maintain its multi-currency system, anchored by the U.S. dollar, to 2030, it said on Friday.
GENEVA — U.S. President Joe Biden this week cast doubt on casualty figures provided by Palestinian officials in Gaza, despite international humanitarian agencies considering them broadly accurate and historically reliable.
ABIDJAN — Ivory Coast must speed up efforts to make cocoa stocks destined for the European market comply with European Union deforestation law that will come into full effect from January 2025, the EU's ambassador to Ivory Coast said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON - he U.S. Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly rejected legislation that would have forced President Joe Biden to withdraw U.S. troops from Niger, a West African nation where military officers seized power in July.
JOHANNESBURG - An inquiry opened on Thursday tasked with determining responsibility for a fire in Johannesburg that killed 77 people, throwing a spotlight on gangs that seize abandoned buildings in the city's center and illegally rent them out.
JOHANNESBURG — The World Bank said on Wednesday that its board had approved a $1 billion loan to help South Africa reform its energy sector, as the country tries to overcome regular power cuts that have curbed economic growth.
NEW YORK — Former U.S. President Donald Trump offered his congratulations to the newly elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday during a break in his civil fraud trial proceedings in New York City.
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden, who is a candidate in the 2024 elections, said he was not worried about challenges to the election results, after Republicans on Wednesday selected Representative Mike Johnson as speaker for the U.S. House of Representatives.
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