President Donald Trump has welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington, praising what he called their “truly great friendship” as the two leaders opened talks focused on trade, Taiwan, Iran and artificial intelligence.

South Africans in Pretoria are hoping to have cooked up a new Guinness World Record. Hundreds gathered on Thursday to fire up their grills and attempt the largest simultaneous barbecue ever recorded.

Morocco’s ruling coalition has dominated parliamentary elections marked by low turnout and a stronger showing from the Islamist opposition. But beyond the results, voters are focusing on what comes next.

It is Nigeria’s fourth major meth lab bust since May, with authorities saying all four operations were linked to Mexican nationals.

Nigeria and the United States on Wednesday signed a framework agreement to “deepen American investment” in the West African’s country mining sector. Nigeria says its mineral resources are worth $700 billion.

This year’s powerful El Nino and the record global heat it’s driving, along with severe droughts, wildfires and shrinking water supplies, could lead to nearly half a million more deaths worldwide by the end of February, according to a research report released om Wednesday.

Ethiopia’s army says its forces have killed 272 Tigrayan fighters and wounded 260 during a counter-offensive in Amhara. The press says the figures could not be independently verified.

Niger authorities said Wednesday they have signed a new agreement with the Madaouela Mining Company, which is 60% owned by the Australian Atomic Eagle group, to relaunch a uranium mining project in the north of the country.

Dangote is expanding its energy business across Africa, putting local capital and cross-border infrastructure at the centre of the continent’s refining future. South Sudan’s small businesses turn to solar as unreliable electricity grid leaves entrepreneurs facing blackouts, rising costs and lost in

The sixth edition of the event, titled “Being Here”, brought together artists at seven venues along Liberty Street, including the abandoned Liberty Hotel, built in the early twentieth century and closed since the 1940s.

In Ceuta, Spanish police discovered 28 undocumented migrants hiding in flats that did not meet adequate hygiene and habitability standards. Ceuta is facing a humanitarian crisis, weeks after more than 70,000 people reached the enclave from Morocco.

A year after Madagascar’s Gen Z-led protests forced President Andry Rajoelina from power, activists say they feel betrayed by the country’s new military-backed government.

Nearly a year after a ceasefire promised to end the war in Gaza, conditions remain dire for two million Palestinians living in the Strip, ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday.

Tigrayan authorities say they are responding to attacks by federal forces, while the federal government has described the Tigrayan military action as an offensive. Both sides have accused the other of triggering the latest escalation.

With emigration surging, a major issue in the vote is how to stop young people, who see no future at home, from leaving the country.

The result will determine which party gets the first opportunity to form a government, with the prime minister appointed by King Mohammed VI from the party that wins the most seats.

The developments follow a series of reported drone strikes in Tigray. Regional authorities say at least 14 people were killed and 22 injured in a strike on the town of Alamata on Tuesday, with the mayor accusing federal forces of targeting schools.

In his address to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, William Ruto lamented Africa’s exclusion from permanent representation on the UN Security Council, despite accounting for more than a quarter of the assembly’s membership.

Provisional results published on Thursday show the centre-right Authenticity and Modernity Party has taken 95 seats in the 395-seats in parliament.

Ex-Seleka leader, Mahamat Said Abdel Kani, was found gulty on four counts of crimes against humanity, but acquitted of three.

The leader of Morocco’s opposition PPS (Party of Progress and Socialism) arrived at a polling station in Rabat on Wednesday to vote in the parliamentary election.

As the Ebola outbreak in the DRC reaches unprecedented levels, disease surveillance is spreading beyond the country’s borders. The International Organization for Migration tracks the epidemic along major travel routes, with the help of neighbouring governments.

Uncertainty lingers over South Sudan’s ability to hold elections in December, with persisting insecurity and lack of political dialogue remaining potential obstacles.

Chadema leader, Tundu Lissu, has pleaded not guilty saying the charges were politically motivated.

Its chairperson called on politicians and parties to convert their political ideas into ‘ballot paper and not bullets’.

The International Criminal Court on Wednesday found rebel commander Mahamat Said Abdel Kani guilty of abusing and torturing prisoners while running a detention facility in the Central African Republic.

Tigrayan rebels in northern Ethiopia seized control of airports and battled federal troops in the neighbouring Afar region, multiple sources told AFP on Wednesday, as long-standing tensions spilled into open conflict.

Moroccans are voting today in parliamentary elections dominated by concerns over the cost of living, jobs and inequality, with many voters also expressing deep distrust of political parties.

The adult edition of Zeinab Badawi’s book “An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence” has sold more the 110,000 copies.

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Three shooters killed at least 11 people, including a woman who was believed to be pregnant, in an attack at a house party in South Africa, police said Wednesday.

The Trump administration said Tuesday that it planned to admit up to 17,500 Afrikaners to the United States in 2027, as part of a new refugee policy.

Dozens of people in the United States have sued the manufacturers of popular GLP-1 drugs, claiming that the medicines caused a rare eye condition that can result in permanent vision loss, according to US media reports.

About 450 mountain gorillas live in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in south-western Uganda. The apes are threatened by deforestation, but local communities are working to protect their habitat by planting trees, in the hope of reducing pressure on the forest.

A spokesperson for UN chief Antonio Guterres said he was “deeply concerned” that it had not been issued and was engaging with Washington on the matter.

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Tuesday that the country possesses the technological infrastructure to make missiles with significantly longer ranges.

A senior South African police officer appeared in court Tuesday on rape and sexual grooming charges, intensifying scrutiny of gender-based violence in a country with one of the world’s highest violent crime rates.

Hundreds of Iranian Americans showed support for the France-based opposition coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye met with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

A report by an African anti-corruption group alleges that dozens of Nigerian officials laundered hundreds of millions of dollars through property purchases in the United States over more than two decades.