Ethiopia's prime minister Abiy Ahmed said Africa is realizing its potential and becoming an economic, political and social powerhouse. Speaking from Beijing Wednesday where he is attending the Belt and Road Initiative with representatives of 130 other countries, he also said that Africa has particularly suffered the consequences of the climate crisis and conflicts in other parts of the world, and that "we cannot be idle observers in forums that affect common wellbeing."
N'DJAMENA - Chad's defence minister and the government's general secretary resigned on Wednesday, an administration spokesman said, after two separate sex tapes purporting to show the men were shared widely on social media.
BRUSSELS/ROME - A deadly Islamist attack in Belgium by a rejected asylum-seeker from Tunisia who earlier lived in Italy and Sweden has underlined security gaps and failed returns policies, which have spurred an EU push to overhaul its troubled migration system.
GAZA — An exploson on Tuesday killed about 500 Palestinians at a Gaza City hospital crammed with patients and displaced people, health authorities in the besieged enclave said.
Libya's electoral commission has told the United Nations it can only start a countdown to national elections after resolution of the question of forming a new government, U.N. Libya envoy Abdoulaye Bathily said on Monday.
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis' representative in the Holy Land said on Monday he was willing to exchange himself for Israeli children taken hostage by Hamas and held in Gaza.
MARRAKECH - The International Monetary Fund and World Bank wrapped up annual meetings in Morocco on Sunday with some progress towards increasing their lending resources but confronting a new economic shock from the Israel-Gaza conflict.
ISMAILIA, EGYPT — Egyptian authorities Monday said Israel was not cooperating with delivery of aid into Gaza and evacuations of foreign passport holders via the Raffah crossing.
MARRAKECH - The World Bank will aim to ensure that Ugandans that are part of the LGBTQ community do not face discrimination in its programs before resuming new funding, which was halted in August over an anti-LGBTQ law, a bank executive said.
KINSHASA - At least 30 people have drowned and 167 are missing after a boat capsized on the Congo river late on Friday in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, a provincial minister told Reuters on Sunday.
GAZA - As Israel prepared on Sunday for a ground assault on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, Palestinians who have lost numerous family members in air strikes were bracing for more destruction if Israel hits back on an unprecedented scale on its territory.
NAIROBI - Ten months since a Supreme Court win, LGBTQ+ Kenyans say they feel more emboldened to fight for their rights and report hate crime even as they face protests and a legislative proposal to toughen penalties for gay sex.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan for talks over the Israel Gaza crisis on Saturday.
A court in Madagascar on Thursday ordered a one-week postponement of the island's November election, a move that incumbent President Andry Rajoelina has opposed.
ABIDJAN — African champions Senegal have been drawn with Cameroon at next year's Africa Cup of Nations finals, while record winners Egypt will have old foe Ghana in their group at the tournament to be hosted in the Ivory Coast.
World Trade Organization (WTO) chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said on Thursday that she hoped the Israel-Hamas conflict could be ended quickly, warning it would have a "really big impact" on already weak global trade flows if it widened throughout the region.
MARRAKECH - International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday the "heartbreaking" Israel-Hamas conflict threatened to darken an already murky global economic outlook.
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) has suspended some of its forces in response to reports of serious misconduct. That was revealed in a statement which also said the mission had zero tolerance for "sexual exploitation and abuse." The measures, it added, include suspension from duty and confinement to quarters pending an investigation.
CAIRO — Egypt called on Thursday for humanitarian relief to be provided to Palestinian civilians inside the Gaza Strip and said it was directing international aid flights to Al Arish airport near its border with the enclave.
The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) has resumed distribution of food to roughly 900,000 refugees across Ethiopia after revamping safeguards and controls, following reports of large-scale theft of its donations, it said in a statement, Tuesday.
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