The Trump administration has announced a new fast-track system to help international fans enter the United States for next year’s World Cup.

The legal dispute between Paris Saint-Germain and Kylian Mbappé escalated on Monday, with both sides making colossal financial demands.

Kidnappers in the past have included the Boko Haram insurgency that carried out the mass abduction of 276 Chibok schoolgirls over a decade ago, bringing the extremist group to global attention. But groups of bandits are also active.

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has appointed her daughter and son-in-law to key government positions.

“The UN is a ship that was not built to stay in the harbor,” UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said Monday, urging a dramatic expansion of UN presence in Sudan as violence intensifies in Darfur.

Gunmen attacked a high school in northwestern Nigeria before dawn on Monday, abducting 25 schoolgirls and killing at least one staff member, in a tragic incident that has left communities and families devastated.

Three additional fatalities are being investigated for a possible connection to the disease.

The attack took place before dawn on Monday. Gunmen also killed the school’s vice principal.

A coalition of 13 countries has announced new taxes on luxury air travel, applying to private jets as well as business and first-class tickets. Most of the members are from the Global South.

The International Criminal Court is pushing for the maximum penalty, life in prison, for Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, known as Ali Kushayb, a former commander of Sudan’s notorious Janjaweed militia.

For the last two months, Mali’s capital, Bamako, has face a growing shortage of petroleum products. Now the country’s opposition is urging the population to “open their eyes” to a regime that “seizes the nation” without protecting it.

Excavators searching for the remains of three Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas returned empty handed on Sunday, after a full day of searching for the last remaining bodies.

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The United Kingdom is threatening to restricts visas for nationals from three African countries that it has accused of not cooperating with the deportation of illegal immigrants.

For now, it’s the status quo — nothing has changed. Neither Bassirou Diomaye Faye nor Ousmane Sonko has spoken about the crisis shaking their party, their coalition, the “Diomaye President” coalition that brought Bassirou Diomaye Faye to power.

At least 25 students have been abducted from the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Nigeria’s Maga town, Kebbi State, following an overnight attack by gunmen.

As world leaders meet at the COP30 summit in Brazil, the urgent need to hit a global target of protecting 30 percent of the world’s ocean by 2030 has been brought into stark focus by an international science mission which has just returned with new evidence from the depths of the Indian Ocean.

The Confederation of African Football has unveiled the final shortlists for the 2025 CAF Awards, and Morocco is shining across almost every category.

Titled in Swahili “Chini ya Ardhi”, meaning “Underground” in French, the exhibition presents works carrying powerful messages. Paintings and sculptures illustrate Goma’s environmental realities — the presence of the volcano, as well as a tense security climate that weighs on daily life.

The Immigration and Citizenship Agency said it had launched an investigation into the breach and moved the e-visa platform to a new website.

President Donald Trump indicated Sunday that he plans to meet with New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and said they’ll “work something out,” in what could be a detente for the Republican president and Democratic political star who have cast each other as political foils.

A bridge at a copper and cobalt mine in southeastern Congo collapsed due to overcrowding, killing at least 32 people, a regional government official said Sunday.

Archaeologists are delving deep into Bizmoun Cave, uncovering new clues about early human life in Morocco. The National Institute of Archaeology and Heritage, part of the Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Communication, has launched a fresh wave of research at this remarkable site.

A CARICOM Reparations Commission delegation is visiting the United Kingdom from November 17 to 20, 2025, to meet with British officials and lawmakers to discuss reparations for slavery and colonialism.

As President Alassane Ouattara prepares to begin a fourth term, what is the outlook on Ivory Coast’s economic situation?

Congo advanced to the World Cup intercontinental playoffs after beating Nigeria in a Sunday night penalty shootout.

The deputy executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP) expressed outrage over the “terrible atrocities” that recently took place in the city of el-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region.

A cloud-seeding flight was conducted on Saturday over the country’s largest lake, officials said. Tehran is now in its sixth year of drought. High temperatures over the summer led to power outages

Winter’s first strong rainfall sent water cascading through parts of Gaza’s sprawling Muwasi tent camp on Saturday, as the territory struggles to cope with flooding and devastated infrastructure after two years of war

Officials from the UN refugee agency, World Health Organization and UNMAS (United Nations Mine Action Service) on Friday delivered stark warnings over the deteriorating situation in Sudan

Eighteen caskets, topped with bright yellow and orange flowers, were carried into a public plaza where a crowd gathered to say their goodbyes in Petit-Goave, southern Haiti

Thirteen years ago, when al-Qaida-connected fighters swept into the city, staff and local families smuggled tens of thousands of manuscripts south to Bamako for safety

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is calling on global leaders to protect the rights and dignity of those living on the frontlines of the climate crisis, including migrants and displaced persons, Indigenous Peoples, and traditional and local communities

Benin’s National Assembly has adopted a constitutional amendment extending presidential and legislative terms from five years to seven. It also creates a Senate, made up of between 25 to 30 members.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the M23 rebel group have signed a framework peace deal aimed in the at ending fighting in eastern Congo.

Central African Republic’s top court has cleared President Faustin Archange Touadera to stand in next month’s presidential election.

Tanzania is launching an inquiry into last month’s post-election killings, President Samia Suluhu Hassan told parliament on Friday.

The United Nations Security Council has adopted a draft resolution renewing sanctions against Yemen for another 12 months.

South African authorities are facing heavy criticism after holding more than 150 Palestinians on a plane for 12 hours after they landed in Johannesburg on Thursday morning.

International NGO Doctors without Borders, or MSF, says hundreds of people have been victims of torture and sexual violence since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized the city of El-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur State.