Cocoa plantations in Cameroon are grappling with black pod disease, in an outbreak that has been fuelled by weeks of heavy rain. According to officials, a reliance on low-cost fungicides has not helped the situation.

The European Union laid out on Wednesday its toughest plan yet to pressure Israel to end the war in Gaza as Palestinians fled en masse from Israeli tanks, drones and troops pushing deeper into the coastal enclave ravaged by 23 months of war.

According to the French press agency AFP, residents in the Tillabéri region in western Niger said that gunmen shot dead 22 people, most of which were attending a baptism. Niger’s authorities have confirmed that an attack happened, but did not release casualty numbers.

Ghanaian football star Thomas Partey has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and sexual assault in London.

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrived at Windsor Castle on Wednesday in a horse-drawn carriage procession with King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

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A top police official who claimed that South Africa’s police and justice system has been infiltrated by criminal syndicates took the stand Wednesday at a government-backed probe into the allegations.

As South Sudan’s political and security crisis deepens, communities in Upper Nile State are grappling with a devastating convergence of ongoing violence, severe economic hardship, and relentless climate-related disasters, forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes.

Donald Trump is set to meet King Charles III during his trip, as well as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Not everyone is happy though – earlier in the week, crowds took to the streets to protest against Trump’s visit.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced on Tuesday that singers from 23 countries will take part in the upcoming Intervision song contest, the Russian version of Eurovision

For the the last two weeks, the city of Buea in southwest Cameroon has seen virtually no activity as separatist rebels announced a hard lockdown

Inmates at San Pedro prison in La Paz staged a riot on Tuesday, seizing control of the facility for several hours to demand higher daily food allowances.

Protesters clashed with security forces in Quito on Tuesday as demonstrations erupted over rising diesel prices following the government’s decision to end fuel subsidies.

Protesters gathered outside Windsor Castle on Tuesday to oppose U.S. President Donald Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom.

A Kenyan high court has ordered the arrest of a British national on charges of murdering a local woman near a British army training ground in central Kenya 13 years ago, court officials said Tuesday.

Voters faced a choice between giving President Lazarus Chakwera, 70, a second term or selecting another leader to solve the southern African nation’s soaring inflation, cost-of-living crisis and critical fuel shortages

Kipyegon finished in 3 minutes, 52.15 seconds for a nearly three-second win over another Kenyan, Dorcus Ewoi. Kipyegon joins the great Moroccan, Hicham El Guerrouj, as only the second runner to win four world titles at 1,500 meters

The M23 said the recruits included Congolese soldiers who surrendered when fighting escalated this year and the local militia members who fought with them but rights groups fear that prisoners of war and children are being enlisted against their will

The 29-year-old chef and her team cooked close to 9 kilograms of jollof rice in Lagos last Friday.

Tanzania’s high court on Monday allowed Tundu Lissu’s treason trial to proceed, the latest blow to the country’s opposition.

Vote counting has begun following the closure of polling stations at 14:00 GMT in Malawi’s crucial presidential election.

President Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and four of its journalists on Monday, according to court documents.

Malawians cast their votes on Tuesday in elections to choose a president, lawmakers and local government representatives

In a landmark move to address one of the most persistent threats to its security, Somalia has launched its first-ever National Counter-IED Strategy, praised by the United Nations as an “important step forward” in the fight against improvised explosives widely used by the Al-Shabaab militant group.

Cameroonians will cast their ballot on 12 October 2025. The country’s young people could play a decisive role in the election.

Robert Redford, the Hollywood golden boy who became an Oscar-winning director, liberal activist and godfather for independent cinema under the name of one of his best-loved characters, died Tuesday at 89.

In a significant milestone for global energy markets, Nigeria’s massive Dangote refinery has successfully exported its first shipment of gasoline to the United States, with commodities giant Vitol and North American distributor Sunoco taking delivery this week.

Mexico began its Independence Day celebrations on Monday night with President Claudia Sheinbaum delivering the traditional “shout” from the balcony of the National Palace for the first time.

World Trade Organization members celebrated the entry into force on Monday of a fisheries deal that marks the global body’s first multilateral agreement with environmental sustainability at its core.

The regional prosecutor’s office in Kharkiv has released video footage of the moment a Shahed drone struck an administrative building in the city centre.

The bank is accused of having provided financial support to Omar al-Bashir’s government in the 1990s and 2000s.

The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan accused the country’s political elites of looting public revenues.

Hundreds of people attended the funeral services Tuesday for 31 reporters killed in Israeli airstrikes last week in Yemen.

The sixth edition of the Red Bull Megaloop kitesurfing competition took place on 15 September in Noordwijk after organisers waited two years for the required extreme weather.

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A United Nations-appointed commission has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in its military campaign in Gaza, marking one of the most severe international condemnations of the war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.

The trial of three people charged with housebreaking and stealing $580,000 in US banknotes hidden in a couch at a game farm owned by President Cyril Ramaphosa opened on Monday.

One person was killed and 13 others, including children, were injured in a Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday, officials said.

Albi Albar Ramli is a motorbike mechanic… who now trains macaws in southern Jakarta, where he keeps 18 of the parrots at his home.

A court in Lusaka has sentenced two men to two years in prison with hard labour for attempting to kill the country’s president Hakainde Hichilema with witchcraft.