On Friday, the country’s public prosecutor called for the death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila, who is being tried in absentia for treason, war crimes, and supporting the M23 rebel group.

A major boost in Japan-Africa relations as 300 cooperation agreements were signed during the 9th Tokyo International Conference on Africa’s Development, or TICAD9, held this week.

Despite recent diplomatic efforts, violence continues to escalate in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced, the United Nations warns.

More than two years after the discovery of over 400 bodies linked to a doomsday cult in Shakahola Forest, authorities have uncovered five more bodies in a nearby village in Kilifi County. In addition to the exhumed remains, ten human body parts were found scattered across nearby thickets.

Uganda has agreed to a deal with the United States to take deported migrants as long as they don’t have criminal records and are not unaccompanied minors, the foreign ministry said Thursday.

The National Agency for Emergency Management confirmed the collapse followed days of intense rainfall. The disaster underscores Guinea’s vulnerability to extreme weather, coming just a year after record floods devastated West Africa, killing over 1,000 people and displacing hundreds of thousands.

Lil Nas X rose to fame with his 2018 smash hit “Old Town Road,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a record-breaking 19 weeks, and later released his acclaimed debut album Montero.

In a sweeping blow against the rapidly expanding cybercrime ecosystem in Africa, an international police operation has led to the arrest of over 1,200 individuals and the recovery of approximately $100 million, Interpol announced on Friday.

The State Department on Wednesday announced new sanctions on four ICC officials, including two judges and two prosecutors, for pursuing investigations into American and Israeli officials suspected of committing war crimes

High-stakes negotiations between the Congolese government and the M23 rebel group have finally opened in Doha, amid a climate of deep mistrust and a fundamental deadlock over the release of prisoners.

The U.S. government has tightened sanctions against Venezuela and placed a $50 million bounty on Maduro’s arrest, accusing him of corruption and drug trafficking.

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In a grim echo of a national tragedy, Kenyan authorities have exhumed five corpses from shallow graves just two kilometers from the site where over 400 followers of a doomsday cult perished two years ago.

The IPC determination comes after months of warnings by aid groups that Israel’s restrictions of food and other aid into Gaza, and its military offensive, were causing high levels of starvation among Palestinian civilians, particularly children

Berlin Zoo’s panda twins Leni and Lotti celebrated their first birthday on Friday with bamboo, colourful ice cream treats and a large red wooden number one.

The IOM says nearly 24,500 people have died or gone missing along the route over the past decade, making it one of the deadliest migration corridors in the world.

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un led a ceremony in Pyongyang on Friday to honour troops who fought in Ukraine and to commemorate those killed, according to state media.

Passionate performers from around the world are gathering in Finland this week, competing not with instruments in hand but with invisible guitars.

Israel gave final approval Wednesday for an illeegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two

Its the US singer-songwriter’s 8th album and her second via her independent label, Beauty Marks Entertainment.

With the election just three months away, a bitter standoff over Samuel Eto’o’s eligibility, pitting the football federation against the government, threatens to paralyze Cameroonian football’s governing body.

“An air force fighter aircraft launched three targeted and successive strikes on the positions Bakoura used to occupy in Shilawa,” an army source told AFP.

The Trump administration said Thursday it is reviewing more than 55 million people who have valid U.S. visas for any violations that could lead to deportation, part of a growing crackdown on foreigners who are permitted to be in the United States.

In the dismissal order, the investigating judges said there was no evidence pinning Habyarimana as a genocide perpetrator, but only as a victim of a terror attack in which her husband – then President Juvenal Habyarimana – was killed

At the same time, he said he was still set on approving plans for defeating Hamas and capturing Gaza City.

The charges against Joseph Kabila include murder, rape, and torture linked to his alleged support for Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.

Malorie Thorson braved a chilled booth as sculptor Gerry Kulzer carved her likeness from a 41-kilogram block of butter, a 60-year tradition at the Minnesota State Fair.

His plea came as Palestinians started fleeing parts of Gaza City after the Israeli military began the first stages of its planned offensive there.

A former special advisor to the DR Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi has been acquitted by a military court.

A Ukrainian man suspected of being one of the coordinators of undersea explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany in 2022 was arrested in Italy on Thursday, authorities said.

After two years of civil war, Khartoum has started the daunting process of rebuilding the city devastated by two years of fighting.

The delayed 2024 African Nations Championship is heading into the last eight with quarter-finals due to start on Friday. All three tournament co-hosts have advanced, each coming first in their respective groups.

A report has found that products in West Africa claiming to be 100 natural herbal remedies to improve virility, are resulting in serious consequences.

This is the first time all three surviving former presidents have publicly united in criticism, signaling deep institutional concern over land governance and its implications for Somalia’s fragile political stability.

Israeli airstrikes hit central Gaza early Thursday, destroying a camp for displaced families near Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah as preparations for a wider offensive continued.

Nairobi specifically wants to reprofile the $5bn loan that Beijing underwrote for the construction of the east African country’s modern railway, the finance minister told Reuters

Officials say the flooding has affected almost 8,000 households in 339 neighbourhoods and villages.

The Czech Republic marked the anniversary of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia on Thursday with memorial events in Prague and across the country.

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Ukrainian officials on Thursday said Russia had fired 574 drones and 40 ballistic and cruise missiles into the country.