House Republicans have voted to remove Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, citing her past comments about Israel and its influence in Washington.
Pope Francis on Thursday urged young people in Democratic Republic of Congo to forge a new future without the ethnic rivalry, corruption and distrust that have fuelled so many bloody conflicts in Africa.
Pope Francis heard harrowing accounts of killings and rapes told by victims of the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday and asked God to console them and to convert the hearts of those who carry out atrocities.
Organizers in the Democratic Republic of Congo say over one million people attended the Mass celebrated Wednesday by Pope Francis in Kinshasa on the second day of his DRC visit on his three-nation tour. People began arriving on Tuesday night to be in-place for the papal service.
Football sources watching the European transfer window Wednesday confirmed that French giants Paris Saint-Germain have failed to sign Moroccan star Hakim Ziyech on loan from Chelsea after their national league (LFP) refused to ratify the player’s contract.
Berlin-based good governance NGO Transparency International has just released its 2022 "Corruptions Perceptions Index" listing countries in order of their apparent corruption. A regional average score of 32 out of 100 marks another year of stagnation for Sub-Saharan Africa. Forty-four of the 49 SSA countries assessed are below the 50-mark, with gains made by a few such countries outweighed by significant declines in others.
Rival presidential candidates from Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party and opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are trading accusations in the run up to next month’s election.
South Africa's central bank on Thursday raised its main lending rate by 25 basis points to 7.25%, smaller than the 50 basis point increase expected by the majority of economists polled by Reuters.
Pope Francis is due to spend two days in South Sudan in February. The pope has wanted to visit predominantly Christian South Sudan for years but plans were postponed due to the instability there and a scheduled trip last June was cancelled due to the pope's knee ailment.
EU interior ministers on Thursday discussed how to return irregular migrants to their home countries more effectively -- with some arguing for limiting visas to uncooperative nations.
UPDATED AGAIN WITH ZELENSKYY THANKS: The United States announced on Wednesday it will supply Ukraine with 31 advanced M1 Abrams tanks worth $400 million in a matter of months, a decision that helped break a diplomatic logjam with Germany over how best to help Kyiv in its war against Russia.
UPDATED WITH ADDITIONAL IBRAHIM COMMENTS: Africa must fight against a slide towards strongman authoritarianism that has resulted in a series of military coups and a clampdown on civil society in many countries, Sudanese-British billionaire Mo Ibrahim said.
U.S. box office hit movie “Girls Trip” which grossed over $140 million worldwide, is set to produce a sequel which according to its director and producer Tracy Oliver, will be filmed in Ghana.
UPDATED WITH FRESH STOLTENBERG REMARKS: Germany's defense minister said Tuesday that allies could start training Ukrainian forces on using Leopard tanks, even though a decision is still pending from Berlin on whether to allow delivery of the armaments to Kyiv.
Pope Francis arrived Friday in South Sudan to promote peace and reconciliation in the world's youngest nation and will stay through Sunday before returning to Rome. The pope is on the second leg of his African tour following a stop in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Somalia’s ministry of information announced the death of at least five civilians on Monday after al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab stormed a government building in Mogadishu and detonated a bomb before entering a block that houses the mayor's offices. Reporter David Doyle details the incident.
Burkina Faso has confirmed it is asking France to pull its troops out of the insurgency-hit country within a month, a government spokesman said Monday.
UPDATED WITH ADDITIONAL PANDOR COMMENTS: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was welcomed by his South African counterpart for talks in Pretoria on Monday, in a visit that has sparked criticism against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine.
UPDATED AGAIN WITH MORE COMMENTS: Poland said on Monday it would ask Germany for permission to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine - and would send them whether or not Berlin agreed as long as other countries did too.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visited Goree Island in Senegal Saturday, and spoke of the “unspeakable cruelty” of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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