A fossilized human jawbone discovered in Taiwan is now thought to belong to a Denisovan, an ancient human relative.

In eastern Chad, UN Refugee Chief Filippo Grandi visited displaced Sudanese families seeking safety across the border

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Gianni Infantino, the President of FIFA, was in Philadelphia on Thursday, continuing his journey through the 11 cities that will host the FIFA Club World Cup this summer.

Tensions escalated in Nakuru on Thursday morning when students from Butere Girls High School stormed out, demanding the release of the play’s scriptwriter, Cleophas Malala, who police had detained.

The makeshift camps, located on privately owned land, have long been the site of violent altercations between migrants and Tunisians from nearby El Amra and Jebeniana, two towns located north of Sfax, Tunisia’s second largest city.

Is Ethiopia at war again? A look at the rebellion in one of its most powerful regions.

The woman who was not identified by name in the lawsuit sais she began working for the rapper in 2018 as a cleaner before the two started a romantic relationship which resulted into rape and abuse

Mohamed Salah has signed a new two-year contract with Liverpool, ending months of speculation over his future and keeping the Egyptian star at Anfield until 2027

Kylian Mbappé’s legal team is making aggressive moves to resolve the dispute surrounding a claim of €55 million in unpaid wages from PSG.

Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu has been charged with treason, a day after he was arrested at a public rally

Panama has rejected Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth’s idea of US bases on its soil

Officials are scrambing to identify victims of Dominican club roof collapse that killed at least 221 people

Ten Palestinians taken from Gaza by Israeli soldiers were released and brought back to the territory on Thursday, where they revealed that they had experienced continuous abuse while in detention.

The death toll from a devastating roof collapse at the iconic Jet Set nightclub in the Dominican Republic has risen to 218

Badr Abdelatty gave his remarks after meeting his Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto in Cairo

The government of Zimbabwe has announced an initial compensation of US$3 million for white farmers whose properties were taken under a contentious government initiative over twenty years ago.

“The genocide against the Masalit is being perpetrated by the Rapid Support Force, composed mainly of Darfur Arabs, with the support and complicity of the United Arab Emirates ,”

While the agreement stops short of authorising the transfer of personal data, it lays the groundwork for future collaboration in areas of urgent and mutual concern, such as terrorism and cross-border crime.

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President Donald Trump’s administration will immediately begin considering “anti-Semitic activity” on social media and physical harassment of Jewish people as grounds for denying immigration benefits

Around the world, Catholic women have started striking against the “glass ceiling” that they face within the Church. In France, the movement has also gained traction.

Prominent Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu was arrested Wednesday after addressing a political rally

The Gabonese population will head to the polls on Saturday, 12 April, for the first time since the 2023 military coup that ended the 50-year reign of the Bongo dynasty. Current interim president Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema is widely expected to win.

A renewed call for unity echoed across Latin America and the Caribbean this week, as leaders gathered in Honduras for the CELAC Summit

South Sudan’s main opposition party’s political branch, SPLM-IO, has named Stephan Par Kuol, a government minister, as interim party chairman following the arrest of longtime leader Riek Machar. The move has divided the party and caused concerns for the country’s fragile political stability.

During the second ministerial meeting of the Khartoum Process, a migration initiative bringing together countries between the Horn of Africa and Europe, Cairo has called on European nations to scale up their support for countries like Egypt in combating illegal migration.

In response to a worldwide market crisis, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he would temporarily suspend tariffs on most countries for a period of 90 days, while simultaneously increasing the tax rate on Chinese imports to 125%.

Côte d’Ivoire was in the spotlight at African Cinema Days 2025, with over 600 participants celebrating African cinema in Paris with screenings, debates and concerts.

An estimated 14 million children are projected to experience interruptions in nutrition support and services due to recent and anticipated global funding reductions, significantly increasing their risk of severe malnutrition and mortality, as highlighted in preliminary analyses released by UNICEF.

According to the Citrus Growers’ Association (CGA) of Southern Africa, the new U.S. tariffs directly threaten around 35,000 jobs in the citrus sector. The United States is a major export market for South African citrus fruits

While cases first recorded in October have spread to 23 of Nigeria’s 36 states, nearly half of the deaths, 74, were reported this year, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control said this week, with local partners describing the recent rise in fatalities as “alarming.”

Following a new round of tariffs imposed by the U.S., China has announced a dramatic increase in its own tariffs on American goods

Humanitarian organizations and food aid recipients in Somalia expressed concerns and uncertainty on Teusday.

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The conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January when the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and seized the strategic city of Goma, followed by Bukavu in February, spreading their footprint in the mineral-rich region.

Trump’s latest tariffs include a massive 104% levy on U.S. imports of Chinese products. Trump’s tariffs hit dozens of economies, representing the biggest disruption to global trade since the 1930s

Officials from Moscow and Washington will meet in Istanbul for a new round of bilateral talks on April 10. Ukraine will however “absolutely not be on the agenda”, according to US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce.

South Sudan’s transitional government has reversed its decision of refusing entry to a man deported from the US, of whom it initially said that he was a DRC citizen. The decision comes in the midst of a visa row with Washington, which issued a blanket visa ban on South Sudanese citizens on Monday.

On April 8th, former Congolese President Joseph Kabila broke his silence after several years, announcing his imminent return to the Democratic Republic of Congo