Tanzanian authorities faced mounting concern over killings during and after last week’s election, with the largest opposition party charging on Tuesday that the security forces were secretly dumping the bodies of hundreds killed in the violence that shocked the region.

China has pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s threat to launch military operations against Nigeria. Trump has accused Nigeria of failing to protect Christians in the country from Islamist militants.

A federal jury will decide how much Boeing should pay to the families of two victims killed in the 2019 crash of a 737 Max jetliner in Ethiopia.

On Wednesday, Luis Díaz wished Paris Saint-Germain’s Moroccan defender Achraf Hakimi a ‘speedy recovery’ after a tackle that injured his opponent and earned the Bayern Munich winger a red card during their Champions League match.

Mauritania’s former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, has lost his final appeal of a 15-year prison sentence for corruption while in office.

Official results gave President Biya victory with nearly 54% of the vote while his former ally Issa Tchiroma who had declared victory on the first day of counting came second

The Royal Palace said that starting next year, 31 October will be known as Unity Day, to honour Morocco’s territorial integrity.

He was the driving force behind the US’ 2003 invasion of Iraq, warning of the danger from its alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, that were never found.

A Moroccan court on Tuesday sentenced a man to five years in prison and $107,300 in fines for human trafficking, in the country’s first ruling against someone accused of luring people to work in a scam compound in Asia.

Cécile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris were arrested in May 2022 and sentenced to lengthy jail terms on espionage charges.

The democratic socialist, who spent some of his formative years in South Africa, will be the first Muslim leader in the city’s history.

There have been widespread reports of summary executions, massacres, sexual violence, and attacks on humanitarian workers by RSF fighters in al-Fashir.

General Assimi Goita, the head of Mali’s military junta, spoke for the first time on Monday about the country’s fuel crisis.

The AFC/M23 rebellion continues to establish a parallel judicial system in territories it controls in North Kivu, a move Kinshasa authorities have condemned as illegal.

The United Nations is sounding the alarm, warning that current global efforts to combat climate change are falling short. The driving force behind future warming, the UN says, remains our reliance on fossil fuels like gas, oil, and coal.

Bee venom therapy is offering patients in Kenya an alternative way to treat their ailments. But experts warm the science behind it is not well established – and it comes with seirous risks

The former football player was recognised for his services to sport and charity.

The guidance, titled “Responding to the health financing emergency: immediate measures and longer-term shifts,” outlines policy options for countries to cope with sudden financial shocks.

The World Food Programme has warned of a “marathon recovery” for nations hit hard by Hurricane Melissa as it steps up relief efforts in the hardest-hit Caribbean countries

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The NGO denounced the “violent and repressive” response to the protests. President Samia Suluhu Hassan blamed foreigners for the deadly demonstrations.

Local authorities blamed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for the attack in Al-Luweib village.

According to Treasury chief John Mbadi, the international lender wants securitized loans to fund infrastructure projects classified as sovereign debt. Nairobi objects

Speaking in Berlin alongside his German counterpart Johann Wadephul, Tuggar pointed to his country’s “constitutional commitment to religious freedom and rule of law.”

Tanzanian authorities faced mounting concern over killings during and after last week’s election, with the largest opposition party charging on Tuesday that the security forces were secretly dumping the bodies of hundreds killed in the violence that shocked the region.

Mobile phone users received a text message on Monday night saying that sharing images that could cause panic or demean human life would lead to “treason charges”

The gathering gets underway months after two-thirds of the 195 nations that signed the Paris climate agreement missed a deadline to publish their new climate plans.

It says there is famine in al-Fashir, which was recently captured by the paramilitary RSF, and in the town of Kadugli, in the South Kordofan state.

Mamady Doumbouya submitted his candidacy at the country’s Supreme Court on Monday.

There has been a sharp escalation in bloodshed in the conflict since Rapid Support Forces fighters captured the city of al-Fashir.

An Emirati presidential diplomatic adviser said “looking back” everyone made a mistake in the handling of developments in Sudan.

There were mixed reactions in Lagos on Monday after US President Donald Trump said he’d ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria, as he stepped up his allegations that the government is failing to rein in the persecution of Christians in Nigeria.

Italy’s right-wing government has announced plans to issue 500,000 work permits for non-EU workers from 2026 to 2028.

Tuesday’s game at Parc des Princes will be a repeat of the 2019-20 Champions League final in Lisbon, where Kingsley Coman scored the only goal as Bayern secured a sixth European crown

In the heart of one of Nairobi’s most impoverished neighborhoods, where corrugated iron roofs stretch across the Mukuru slum, a quiet revolution is unfolding.

Prosecutors say Tewelde Goitom, also known as Amanuel Walid, ran an operation bringing East African migrants to Europe under horrific conditions, demanding huge sums of money from their relatives to free them from camps in Libya.

The New York City Marathon made history on Sunday with a course record set in the women’s competition and the closest race ever on the men’s side, which was decided by a fraction of a second.

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Beyond the immediate devastation, the disaster highlights a bigger story, how Kenya, like much of East Africa, is being tested by a changing climate and how communities are struggling and adapting in response.

More than 62,000 people are believed to have fled the Sudanese city of el-Fasher between Sunday and Wednesday, after the last stronghold in the Darfur region was taken by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces group.