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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has denied receiving advance knowledge of the 7 October 2023 offensive, claiming that security chiefs did not warn him.
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Trevor Mwamba was detained last month with other opposition figures and charged with treason, his son says.
A Congolese politician has been beaten to death after promoting Ebola awareness during a radio interview. Marie-Celestin Karondwa from the ruling UDPS party was attacked on Sunday by residents of Butembo, in DR Congo's North Kivu province.
Nearly two years after Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, thousands of children are still struggling for an education.
Ghana is confronting a renewed debate over where legitimate law enforcement ends and the protection of free expression begins.
Oil tycoon Aliko Dangote says he believes the continent will will largely supply its own refined fuel needs by 2030.
Speaking at an interfaith meeting in Metz, he urged religious leaders to foster a path to friendship, peace, and brotherhood.
Organised crime, gang violence and conflicts over the control of criminal networks are fuelling mass shootings in South Africa, according to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
The mayor of Tangier, Mounir Limouri, was placed in police custody on Monday over alleged electoral fraud in the recent parliamentary elections.
FIFA lawyers claimed UEFA is harassing Gianni Infantino, in a court filing urging a Florida judge to deny the European soccer body’s request for evidence discovery about a World Cup private investor plan that has rocked the sport.
Anger is growing in Cameroon over rising gender-based violence that has seen at least 56 women killed since the start of the year. In response to the outcry, a bill to make femicide a separate crime from murder will be considered during parliament's November session.
Guinea-Bissau's exiled former president Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who was ousted in a November coup, told AFP on Monday he will return and run for president in an election due on December 6.
More than 20 United Nations experts on Monday warned against US deportations to third countries, saying the policy is "triggering a cascade of human rights violations".
Three Egyptian security officials were sentenced to 10 years in jail in Rome on Monday for the 2016 abduction of an Italian researcher. The ruling marked a significant milestone in a case that has tested relations between Italy and Egypt.
Nearly 300 workers identified so far will receive on average 50,000 euros ($57,000), with some receiving up to 90,000 euros ($102,000) in unpaid wages and damages for emotional distress, said Luca Stanzione,
Junta leader Ibrahim Traoré wants the country to profit more from its mineral wealth.
For the Igbos, the festival is more than a celebration of the first harvest of the year. It is a cultural homecoming, a moment when people reconnect with their roots, honour their heritage and give thanks for the blessings of the farming season.
Sudanese Foreign Minister Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim criticized the United States Monday for failing to issue a visa to Army Chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan to attend the U.N. General Assembly, while calling for an end to foreign support fueling the country’s civil war.
Kijanangoma is being crowned amid a dispute over a young heir whom the royal clan does not recognise.
Giulio Regeni's tortured body was found days after he went missing on a research trip to Egypt in 2016, while studying at Cambridge University.
Pope Leo XIV ended his four-day visit to France in Metz on Monday by urging Europe to build on its Christian heritage and culture of dialogue rather than succumb to what he called the “desire for domination” behind many of today’s wars.
