Heavy rains flooded roads and damaged buildings across Senegal over the weekend, killing several people and disrupting traffic in Dakar and other parts of the country as authorities warned that more r...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has vowed that government forces are ready to contain a rebel offensive in Tigray, as nearly two weeks of fighting raises fears of a wider regional war and a return...

Ethiopia's parliament has re-elected Abiy Ahmed as prime minister for another five-year term after his Prosperity Party won a large majority in the June general election, as fresh fighting threatens t...

Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces on Monday, October 5 advanced toward the port city of Mocha after retaking key positions around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, in a major offensive aimed at pushing Ir...

Nigeria launched a search-and-rescue operation on October 5, after a military aircraft carrying 32 people crashed in Ondo State in the country’s southwest.

Ethiopian federal forces took full control of Tigray’s regional capital, Mekelle, on Sunday, October 4 as the leaders of Egypt, Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea met in Egypt to call for peaceful solutions t...

At least 5,700 people have been killed or wounded in Haiti between January 1 and September 11 amid gang violence and security operations, while more than 1,000 women and girls were raped, UN human rig...

The United States sent a third aircraft carrier toward waters near Iran on October 2 as the war entered its eighth month, while Washington considered both military action and diplomacy.

Yemen’s internationally recognised government said Friday, October 2 that its warplanes carried out 20 strikes on Houthi targets in Taiz province, as fighting reached its most serious level since a UN...

Egypt on Thursday, October 1 ordered an Ethiopian diplomat to leave within 48 hours after Ethiopia expelled an Egyptian diplomat, adding to tensions between the two countries over the Nile dam and reg...

US President Donald Trump said Thursday, October 1 he may ask European countries to release some of their diesel reserves as his administration considers restricting US diesel exports to bring down ri...

Guinea-Bissau’s military junta has blocked former President Umaro Sissoco Embalo from returning to the country, saying security conditions are not in place for his planned arrival ahead of presidentia...

Ethiopia and Eritrea have broken diplomatic relations as renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia fuels fears of a wider conflict and a return to the devastating Tigray war.

Former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been moved to a military-run hospital in Khartoum after suffering health complications, his lawyer said Thursday, as his family urged authorities to allow ...

Former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been moved to a military-run hospital in Khartoum after suffering health complications, his lawyer said Thursday, as his family urged authorities to allow ...

A Russian drone struck a school in Kyiv on October 1, as Moscow continued its air assault across the Ukrainian capital, disrupting transport and damaging civilian infrastructure.

International oil prices climbed above $100 a barrel again on Wednesday, October 1 as stuck US-Iran peace talks and falling US fuel inventories raised concerns about tighter supplies.

At least 52 civilians have been killed in three days of heavy fighting around Alamata in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, as federal troops push further north after taking control of the strategic town, hosp...

Four in five households in Lebanon are struggling to afford basic necessities as conflict deepens years of economic hardship, leaving children hungry, out of school and increasingly forced into work, ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has praised an Israeli passenger and an Indian pilot for helping save 174 people aboard a Flydubai flight that was diverted to Saudi Arabia after an attack in...

Mali opened its 2026-2027 school year on Thursday, October 1, with more than 2,400 schools still closed as insecurity and the growing presence of jihadist groups continue to disrupt education in parts...

South Africa summoned US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III on Tuesday, September 30 for the third time in nine months, accusing him of “undiplomatic conduct” as tensions between Pretoria and Washington ...

A helicopter carrying six people crashed in rural Marondera, east of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, on Wednesday, September 30, killing everyone on board, government spokesperson Nick Mangwana said.

Hundreds marched through Durban, South Africa, on Wednesday, September 30, protesting illegal immigration as the anti-migrant group March and March staged protests across several provinces.

Saudi Arabia rejected an Israeli request on Wednesday, September 30, to allow Israeli military aircraft to collect passengers from a flydubai flight that made an emergency landing in the kingdom after...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced new measures to combat gender-based violence after at least 11 women were killed in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, since July on September 29.

French authorities detained 440 people, mostly minors, on Tuesday, September 29, as high school protests over overcrowding and teacher shortages spread nationwide, leaving dozens injured.

Burundi has agreed to receive people deported by the United States to a country that is not their own, with officials saying on Tuesday, September 29 that only those without criminal cases or links to...

Former television news anchor Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma was crowned king of Uganda’s Tooro Kingdom on Tuesday, September 29 taking the royal name Edward Rukidi Nyabongo I after a succession dispute th...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has urged Americans to vote out allies of US President Donald Trump as US forces completed their withdrawal from Iraq on Wednesday, September 30 ending more th...

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on Tuesday, September 29 appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as the country’s first female prime minister after her PAM party won the most seats in last week’s election.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday, September 28 that more than 8,000 North Korean troops are already in Russia, while another 10,000 are being selected and trained for deployment ...

The last US forces are set to leave their remaining bases in Iraq by Wednesday, September 30 ending more than two decades of American military involvement and raising concerns that the withdrawal coul...

Sudan’s military has rejected accusations by Ethiopia’s army chief that Khartoum is supporting armed groups fighting federal forces in northern Ethiopia, as renewed clashes in Tigray raise fears of an...

Pope Leo XIV ended his four-day visit to France in Metz on Monday, September 28 using the city’s history of war and changing borders to highlight Robert Schuman’s vision of a united Europe and the nee...

Sudan’s Foreign Minister Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim on Monday, September 28 criticized the United States for failing to issue an entry visa to Army Chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan to attend the UN G...