Iran’s reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday kicked off his first trip abroad as president, hoping to cement Tehran’s ties to Baghdad amid regional tensions.

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sissi welcomed Wednesday (Sep. 11) his German counterpart who is on a three-day visit to the northern African country.

Residents have been forced to flee their homes in northeastern Nigeria after a dam collapsed unleashing severe flooding.

Algerian law provides the court 10 days from the announcement of provisional election results to rule on the appeals. A verdict could require the election authority to recalculate each candidate’s totals without calling into question Tebboune’s victory.

According to the Senegalese Directorate for environement, coastal erosion which results in a retreat of the coastline is estimated on average at between 0.5 and 2m per year.

“I will therefore urge the Assembly to intensify its determination to prioritize the resolution of conflicts, including the intractable conflicts in the Gaza Strip, Haiti and Ukraine, as well as to find lasting solutions to the situation in the Great Lakes region and elsewhere in Africa ,”

Kenya Airport Workers Union, in announcing the strike, said that the deal would lead to job losses and “inferior terms and conditions of service” for those who will remain.

The televised debate on Tuesday gave Americans their most detailed look at an election campaign that has changed dramatically since the last debate in June.

Congolese authorities said that 50,000 doses of smallpox vaccine from the United States arrived in the country on Tuesday, a week after the first batch arrived from the European Unio

The Independent Election Commission says 32.25 per cent of the country’s over 5 million eligible voters cast their ballots.

Co-hosted by the United States, participants discussed the opportunities and challenges raised by the development and use of artificial intelligence.

UN Human Rights Deputy High Commissioner Nada Al-Nashif said Tuesday the warring parties in the Sudan conflict are acting with “total disregard for international law.”

It is alleged that in August, a truck belonging to a dairy company dumped potentially expired goods at Olivier’s farm, prompting the women, Locadia Ndlovu and Maria Makgatho, to trespass and try to collect the products.

James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen — eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, “The Lion King” and Darth Vader — has died. He was 93.

The country’s national police have also deployed additional officers to assist in the search for the fugitives, the ministry said.

A boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Senegal over the weekend, leaving at least four people dead and several others missing, local authorities said on Monday.

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A year after extremely heavy rain caused two dams to burst upstream from the eastern coastal city of Derna, its residents have long given up on finding the remains of their families in the debris.

The Creative Arts Emmys for artistic and technical achievements were given ahead of the main Emmy Awards on 15 September.

K-pop has become popular not only because of the quality of the music but also because the songs touch on social issues that are common in Cuba.

Police in Guinea-Bissau seized 2.6 tons of cocaine from a plane that arrived from Venezuela in the West African country’s capital, Bissau, over the weekend, judicial police said Monday.

Dickson Ndiema was admitted at the Moi Referral Hospital in the western Eldoret city for burns covering 30% of his body.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who has loosened past restrictions on the opposition in the East African nation, quickly condemned the killing in a statement posted on X and said her administration does not condone such acts.

It is being reported that at least four missiles hit the tent encampment of Al-Mawasi near Khan Younis in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The election is taking place under a new electoral law aimed at strengthening the participation of political parties.

Dozens of people are missing in both countries after floods swamped villages in the normally arid region.

Egyptian and Danish officials met in Cairo on Monday as part of diplomatic efforts to prevent further violence and escalation in the Middle East.

Torrential downpours hit North Africa’s normally arid mountains and deserts over the weekend, causing flooding that killed more than a dozen people in Morocco and Algeria and destroyed homes and critical infrastructure.

Jordanian authorities are keeping the bridge at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan closed for a second day.

The U.N. human rights chief on Monday urged voters to be wary of “strongman” politicians and personalities “that throw glitter in our eyes” as more elections loom in a busy electoral calendar this year.

People living with disabilities in South Sudan’s Jonglei State are suffering and facing a lot of difficulties during the flood seasons.

Africanews focuses on the most striking images of the day’s news.

One year after a powerful earthquake struck Morocco, the mountain communities most affected by the quake are still working to rebuild.

More than 16 months of war in Sudan has killed more than 20,000 people, a senior United Nations official said Sunday, a grim figure amid a devastating conflict that has wrecked the northeastern African country.

More than half the population of the overwhelmingly Catholic country are expected to attend an open-air Mass on Tuesday.

The fuel tanker was also carrying cattle in the Agaie area in north-central Niger state and at least 50 of them were burned alive

The three campaigns jointly issued a statement accusing the country’s election chairman of announcing contradictory figures.

The updated death toll comes amid reports of another fire, this time at a girls’ boarding school in central Kenya.

“The Front Room” follows Belinda and Norman whose lives are thrown into disarray when the man’s mother moves in.

Afro hair in all its beauty. Cuba’s capital recently hosted the island’s first Afro beauty-aesthetics convention. The trend that can be observed around the world is gaining traction in the Caribbean nation.