Flooding tied to El Niño Costero devastates Peru, killing dozens and damaging hundreds of kilometres of roads as a nationwide emergency speeds relief.

Russian overnight drone and missile attacks struck Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, injuring civilians, damaging apartment blocks and cutting heating to hundreds of homes.

At least 7,667 people died or went missing on migration routes globally in 2025, the UN migration agency reported Thursday, warning the true toll is likely higher and calling the ongoing losses a “global failure.”

Ghana’s licensed cocoa buyers are staggering under up to $750 million in debt to banks, the Licensed Cocoa Buyers Association revealed Thursday, as delayed payments from regulator Cocobod and falling global prices squeeze the sector supplying half the world’s cocoa.

Spanning some 150 million hectares, the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are among the most coveted in the world. In 2023, after four years of negotiations and bureaucratic hurdles, villages in the Yainyongo community secured official rights to 11,000 hectares in Tshopo Province.

We find out how IFAD is transforming farm losses into bankable opportunities for rural youth and local markets and ECOWAS promised cheaper regional flights after aviation tax cuts — but high fares and conflicting national policies are stalling reforms.

The head of the World Economic Forum is stepping down. Børge Brende announced Thursday he’s resigning as president and CEO of the group best known for its annual gathering in Davos.

A Tunisian court on Thursday rejected demands to suspend operations at a fertiliser factory in Gabes, ruling there was “no sufficient proof of harm” despite years of protests blaming the plant for rising health problems in the community.

Tensions between Iran and the United States are playing out in Geneva, where another round of indirect talks to try to salvage a deal on Tehran’s nuclear program and possibly prevent another war, have ended.

A Lagos coroner has initiated proceedings for an inquiry into the death of acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi’s toddler son, who died on 7 January at a Euracare hospital. The author and her husband accused the hospital of medical negligence.

Kenya began administering the first doses of lenacapavir—a groundbreaking twice-yearly HIV prevention injection—in a Nairobi slum on Thursday, offering new hope in the country’s fight against the virus.

Police in Kenya have arrested a man accused of tricking Kenyans into fighting in Ukraine under the promise of skilled work in Russia. Festus Omwamba was caught in the northern town of Moyale and charged in Nairobi with trafficking 25 Kenyans last year.

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Angola’s state-owned oil company Sonangol announced Wednesday it is negotiating a $4.8 billion loan with Chinese financial institutions to partially finance a new refinery in the Atlantic port of Lobito, marking the country’s first such borrowing from China since 2017.

The home of the Mona Lisa has a new leader. Art historian Christophe Leribault has been appointed to head the Louvre, stepping in at a moment of crisis for the world’s largest museum. The announcement was made Wednesday by French government spokeswoman Maud Bregeon.

Sources have told various press agencies that the drone strike near the Rubaya mining site on 24 February that killed M23 military spokesperson Willy Ngoma also killed nine other people. It however missed the movement’s military commander.

Under the scorching sun in Somaliland, farmer Muhummad Mohamad Ismail digs trenches around his orange and papaya trees, carving shallow basins to trap every drop of water. After losing more than half his crop to drought, he says survival depends on making the most of what little rain falls.

The United Nations Security Council has sanctioned four commanders of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for atrocities in Darfur described as having “the hallmarks of genocide.”

New data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) project showed that various jihadist groups, such as Al-Qaida and JNIM have recently expanded their activity in the border region between Nigeria, Niger and Benin, turning the zone into a flashpoint of violence.

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The four-week Paris appeal trial of an accused Franco-Rwandan génocidaire started hearing closing arguments on Wednesday.

An AI powered robot monk called Buddharoid debuts in a Kyoto temple, answering personal questions and raising new questions about faith and technology.

Brazil’s Minas Gerais reels after torrential rains cause deadly floods and landslides, killing at least 46, displacing thousands and destroying businesses.

Jordan welcomed Prince Harry and Meghan, on Wednesday as they met patients evacuated from Gaza during a humanitarian visit focused on health and recovery.

Glimmers of life appear after Haiti retakes control of a key area from powerful gangs.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz continued his first official visit to China with a tour of Beijing’s Forbidden City, as Berlin pushes for a more balanced trade relationship amid growing economic tensions.

Ethiopia’s President Taye Atske Selassie welcomed his counterpart Isaac Herzog on Wednesday to the Presidential Palace in Addis Ababa.

Ethiopian peacekeepers in South Sudan have been awarded the United Nations medal in recognition of their service in the war-torn country.

South Africa’s debt burden is stabilising for the first time in nearly two decades, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced Wednesday, as Africa’s most developed economy shows cautious signs of recovery and pledges increased spending on security.

Eleven South African men allegedly tricked into fighting for Russian forces in Ukraine returned home Wednesday, as political fallout intensifies over recruitment claims linked to former president Jacob Zuma’s party.

Iran pushed back Wednesday against U.S. President Donald Trump’s pressure tactics ahead of critical nuclear talks in Geneva, with Tehran’s parliament speaker warning that negotiations may yield an agreement through “honorable diplomacy”.

Pope Leo XIV will embark on his first major overseas trip of 2026 from April 13-23, visiting Algeria, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon—including a historic first-ever papal visit to Muslim-majority Algeria, the Vatican announced Wednesday.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Secretary General Mambwe Zimba of Zambia was arrested on Tuesday, allegedly over a fake image posted on Facebook, depicting the country’s president lying in a casket.

DR Congo government forces launched a major attack on the M23 rebel group in the east, using drones to strike a key mining site near Rubaya, North Kivu.

Ethiopia on Tuesday revoked the licence of independent online outlet Addis Standard saying it harmed national interests, in the latest curb on press freedom. Africa’s second most populous nation s ranks 145th out of 180 in the press freedom index compiled by Reporters without Borders.

Zimbabwe has pulled out of talks with the United States over a new health aid deal meant to replace a program dismantled under President Donald Trump. The agreement would have provided $367 million over five years, supporting 1.2 million Zimbabweans receiving HIV treatment.

Zimbabwe has imposed an immediate freeze on exports of all raw minerals and lithium concentrate, the mines ministry announced Wednesday, tightening state control over resources critical to global clean-energy and defense industries.

Renewed student protests erupt at Tehran universities as a new semester begins, reviving slogans from recent unrest and highlighting growing tensions.

In the rugged hills of Somaliland, officials say vast treasure lies beneath the earth. The breakaway territory in northern Somalia claims it holds abundant critical minerals and potentially billions of barrels of oil, resources that could transform its economic future.

Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa on a rare visit to Ukraine on Wednesday urged President Volodymyr Zelensky to release two Ghanaian prisoners of war who were captured fighting for Russia.