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Senegal's National Assembly, which is dominated by the opposition, rejected a key budget bill Tuesday, a text that was seen as crucial to restoring public finances as the country finalises an IMF bailout.
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Police have not made any arrests and an investigation is ongoing as authorities search for three teenage boys.
South Africans voted on Wednesday in a closely watched local government election, with parties battling for control of major cities in a contest expected to offer a measure of the national mood before the next national polls.
Experts say only about 10 per cent of South Africa’s exports to the US are currently subject to AGOA, representing about 1 per cent of it total global exports.
The agreement to expand cooperation in “various fields” was approved by Nigerien Prime Minister Ali Maha-man Lamine Zeine during a visit to Benghazi.
Okowa won 183 votes in the General Assembly and 13 in the Security Council. She is a professor of public international law at Queen Mary University of London and has served on the UN’s International Law Commission since 2021.
El Salvador sent more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti, the government said Wednesday, to support a mission to rescue four soldiers serving in a UN-backed force missing after an ambush.
Housing protesters have returned to Lisbon's historic Rossio Square, setting up around 100 tents following a court ruling. The demonstration comes as Portugal's government faces growing pressure over housing.
The US imposed sanctions on Rwanda's army over its role in the conflict in DR Congo.
Russian strikes on a humanitarian aid site in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region have killed 33 people, with more than 50 still missing, on Monday 2 November. Survivors and rescuers are being treated for severe injuries.
Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former Atlanta mayor, won the race for governor in the southern state of Georgia on Tuesday, making her the first Black woman elected to the top office in any US state, media projections showed.
President Donald Trump had rare praise for rival Democrats Tuesday after their stunning US midterm elections victory and admitted the Iran war may have played a part in the defeat of his Republican Party.
Supporters erupted in celebration in Austin as Democrat James Talarico was projected to win a US Senate seat in Texas, a state where his party has not won a Senate election since 1988.
US-bound air passengers must sign a statement that they have not travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of a deadly Ebola outbreak, under new rules coming into force on Tuesday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Ethiopian-born American citizen admitted sharing dozens of classified documents with senior Ethiopian officials.
South Africans head to the polls on Wednesday for local government elections, with voters set to choose their municipal representatives amid growing concerns over unemployment, crime, water shortages and the delivery of basic services.
As South Africans vote in local elections, residents tell the BBC they are tired of the poor quality of services they get.
The head of the UN’s MONUSCO peacekeeping mission to Congo met with the DRC’s former president Joseph Kabila on Tuesday and other leaders of his new coalition.
The transatlantic slave trade was a ‘monstrous injustice,’ Britain’s King Charles III said on Tuesday in a speech to Commonwealth leaders. But he stopped short of an apology.
As voters in Johannesburg ready for Wednesday’s local elections, basic services are top of their concerns. South Africa’s economic capital and largest city, Johannesburg has seen nearly two weeks of disruption to its water supply, with severe outages and low pressure in parts of the city.
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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Rescue teams have recovered a second female body from the rubble of the collapsed multi-storey building in Eastleigh, Nairobi, as the search for people trapped beneath the debris continues.
