Ethiopia’s Tigray regional government appeals for help after factional fighters seize key towns

For 15 months, Gaza’s children were barred from schooling as schools in the Palestinian enclave were either destroyed or turned into shelters for displaced families.

For almost a week, Niger’s service stations have been short of enough premium fuel to meet local demand.

Aid agencies distributing U.S. food aid in Ethiopia’s war-affected Tigray region say they have had to stop feeding millions of people because of the U.S. Trump administration’s restrictions on foreign aid.

South African figure skater, Tyrell Sykes, is taking part for the second time and is happy to be back in action.

Divisions over elements of the budget means the finance minister will need support from a range of political parties to get the revamped version approved.

The Angolan presidency says the two sides will meet on 18 March in Luanda.

The African Union’s Peace and Security Council (PSC) has rejected Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) declaration of a parallel government, warning it threatens Sudan’s unity.

The exercises codeamed ‘Maritime Security Belt 2025, took place in the Gulf of Oman near the strategic Strait of Hormuz

Kiev signaled on Tuesday after talks in Saudi Arabia that it was open to a US-backed 30-day ceasefire in the war with Russia, pending Moscow’s agreement

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined his vision for the Global South on Wednesday after talks with his Mauritian counterpart Navinchandra Ramgoolam.

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Somali security forces on Wednesday ended a 24-hour siege at a hotel in the central city of Beledwyne, leaving an unknown number of people dead, including all the al-Shabab militants who launched the attack, officials said.

The 54 member federations of the Confederation of African Football — 12 of whom currently cannot host national-team games in international competitions — elected Motsepe by acclaim unopposed to have a second four-year term.

Following a brief visit to Luanda by Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi Tuesday, the Angolan presidency announced that it would try to broker direct talks between Kinshasa and the M23 rebels

The spread of the disease in the state of Kebbi began late January with over 200 suspected cases recorded, the state commissioner for health, Musa Ismail, told reporters in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital.

The new plan would also create common regulations across the bloc so that immigration authorities can enforce a deportation order issued by another EU country.

It was unclear what caused her death, but colleagues say she had complained of fatigue and was “desperate to go back home.”

The funds are a fraction of the $8 billion bailout package agreed last Apiril

You can’t build peace in an environment of violence,” she says. “Our goal is to see how people can resolve their differences without using weapons.”

Venancio Mondlane says while he answered a slew of questions by prosecutors, he was not told what accusations lay behind the interrogation.

Narendra Modi will be guest of honour at the country’s national day celebrations and hold talks on bilateral and strategic ties.

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said the country saw a 31 per cent increase in cases last week.

Ukraine said their high-level talks with the US in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday showed Kyiv is ready for peace.

Russia has said it’s ready to cease hostilities on condition that Ukraine drops its bid to join NATO and recognizes regions that Moscow occupies as Russian

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The talks reflect a new diplomatic push after an unprecedented argument erupted during President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Feb. 28 visit to the White House

“We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk claimed in a post. “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.

Local elders had been holding talks with government officials in the building on how to counter the militant group.

“Six people, including two well-known traditional leaders, were killed in the attack,”

The deployment of Ugandan troops to South Sudan underscores rising tensions in the oil-producing country that has been plagued by political instability and violence since it gained independence from Sudan in 2011

Francis has been in Rome’s Gemelli hospital for over three weeks with pneumonia in both lungs.

Terrorism is on the rise globally, with 66 countries reporting attacks in 2024, according to the latest Global Terrorism Index

Algeria’s president has announced plans to import 1 million sheep ahead of this year’s Eid al-Adha, aiming to stabilize prices

The early-morning crash happened on a highway near Johannesburg’s main O.R. Tambo International Airport.

The players were returning from a match in Mushie city in Maï-Ndombe province on Sunday night when the vessel capsized on the Kwa River, said Alexis Mputu, the provincial spokesman.

In a report on Monday, it said it had also secured more than 4,000 criminal convictions.

The IQAir World Quality Report found that Chad, the Congo, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India had the dirtiest air.

Seven medical professionals who treated Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona before his death will face trial for homicide in Buenos Aires

The Coalition for a Peaceful Alternation is hoping to push demands for electoral reform and impose a balance of power on the ruling party.