TEL AVIV - U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday (October 22) accused Iran of involvement in the Oct. 7 Hamas onslaught that triggered a Gaza counter-offensive by Israel, and warned that any escalation of the war could exact a cost from Tehran.
Provisional results released Tuesday by Liberia's National Elections Commission, NEC, placed incumbent President George Weah and his opponent, former Vice President Joseph Boakai, at neck and neck.
PARIS, FRANCE — Israeli military officials Monday said scores of foreigners were killed, wounded or taken hostage after an attack that was carried out last week by Hamas, leaving more than 1,400 people dead in the Middle eastern nation.
LONDON/NAIROBI — King Charles III will travel to Kenya later this month for a state visit in a trip that is full of symbolism. But the monarch is also facing calls to apologize for colonial-era atrocities in East African country.
MARRAKECH — The International Monetary Fund, IMF, and World Bank vowed more focus on Africa as they are holding their annual meetings in Morocco amid criticism from poor nations, which argue that they are inadequately represented within the world's preeminent economic bodies.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken to deposed Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum in a call, the State Department said in a statement, reiterating U.S. support following a July 26 military coup that ousted the democratically-elected leader.
Five African countries have announced support for Somalia’s request of a 90-day "pause" in the drawdown of 3,000 AU peacekeepers by the end of September.
NIAMEY - France's ambassador in Niger has left the country, the French presidency said on Wednesday, around one month after the military junta ordered his expulsion and days after President Emmanuel Macron said the diplomat and French troops would be withdrawn.
African leaders urged the United Nations to answer the call of countries who need help after devastating disasters like the one in Libya this month, while the head of the U.N. told world leaders that the climate crisis had "opened the gates to hell."
DERNA — Telephone and internet links were cut to Libya's flood-hit city of Derna Tuesday, a day after hundreds protested against local authorities they blamed for the thousands of deaths.
DERNA — Emergency teams on Friday continued their search for thousands of people still missing from the massive flash flood that swept the Libyan port city of Derna, with the death toll soaring to 11,300, according to the Libyan Red Crescent.
MARRAKESH — Hopes were dimming on Tuesday in Morocco's desperate search for survivors, four days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,800 people — most of them in remote villages in the High Atlas Mountains — and humanitarian appeals for international emergency funding.
Russia is making "tremendous" gains in its disinformation propaganda in Africa says Dan Whitman, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in the U.S. state of Philadelphia. In an interview with VOA’s Ignatius Annor, Whitman described Moscow’s disinformation campaign as the “most rapid propaganda successes in the history of propaganda.” He said the Kremlin is riding on the wave of political instability happening across the continent to its benefit. Watch out for the full interview which airs this week on VOA’s Straight Talk Africa program — on TV, Radio and @voaafrica.com.
HARARE — Two Zimbabwean human rights lawyers, Douglas Coltart and Tapiwa Muchineripi, representing members of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change, on Tuesday were released from jail after facing charges of obstructing justice.
Zimbabwe’s president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Monday was sworn in for his second term after being declared winner of the 2023 general elections, despite ongoing disputes by the nation’s main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change.
Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema, the leader of the military coup that ousted President Ali Bongo, was sworn in Monday as the interim president by the nation’s constitutional court.
UPDATED - JOHANNESBURG — South African police Friday stepped up their investigations into the cause of a fire that killed over 70 people in the nation’s biggest city, Johannesburg as survivors reel from devastation.
GOMA — Sources and official documentation reviewed by AFP Thursday confirmed the death of at least 48 people amid a crackdown on an anti-United Nations protest in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, raising a previously reported death toll.
Leaders of an apparent coup in Gabon on Wednesday named a general transitional president after seizing power, following disputed elections in which President Ali Bongo Ondimba, had been declared the winner.
LIBREVILLE — Military officers in oil-producing Gabon said they had seized power on Wednesday and had put President Ali Bongo Ondimba under house arrest, after the Central African state's election body announced that he had won a third term.
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