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Baghdad; A Shiite militia in Iraq has claimed responsibility for an attack with a cruise missile on a site in Haifa in northern Israel. The militia, known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, said in an online statement on Saturday that…

Harare: Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has congratulated Cyril Ramaphosa on his reelection as the President of South Africa. In his congratulatory message on Friday, Mnangagwa reaffirmed his commitment to working closely with…

Aviation authorities lost contact with the plane when it "went off radar," the statement from Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera's office said.

Dakar: South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) party has announced it will seek a national unity government after the historic loss of its absolute majority. "We agreed to invite political parties to form a government…

Khartoum: Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan has held a phone talk with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, discussing the need to end the conflict in Sudan and enable unhindered humanitarian access…

International human rights groups have warned the election will not be free or fair as Deby's main rival has been killed and others banned from standing.

There was no immediate comment from the UN on when the airdrops could resume.

Experts say to unlock financing and fill the gap, African countries need to address risks like currency instability that they say reduce investor appetite.

More than 130,000 people are currently affected with thousands of houses washed away and others flooded.

The artworks, which reflect the daily struggles of the country’s Black majority during the apartheid era and the effects of racial segregation policies are on display.

Scientists worry that people living in areas once inhospitable to mosquitoes, including the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro and the mountains of eastern Ethiopia, could be exposed.

The order, issued by Mali's high authority for communication, was distributed on social media.

Goma has a resident population of one million, with another million displaced by the war crammed into desperate, temporary camps that have become the frontlines.

The anniversary of the April 14, 2014 attack comes amid a resurgence of large-scale abductions in Nigeria, with no end in sight to the conflict.

South Africa's Kaizer Chiefs footballer Luke Fleurs shot dead

The legislation was adopted in May last year, triggering outrage among the LGBTQ community, rights campaigners, the United Nations and Western nations.

Faye was one of a group of political opponents freed from prison 10 days before the March 24 presidential ballot under an amnesty announced by Sall who had tried to delay the vote.

"We rely on sugar in everything we do," said Chokri Bouajila, a bakery worker in Tunis. "If we have sugar, we can work, otherwise we can't do anything."

The drought in Zimbabwe, neighboring Zambia and Malawi has reached crisis levels.

His anti-establishment message, the backing of opposition figurehead Ousmane Sonko and his modest personality helped him to a crushing first-round victory over the governing coalition's candidate.