Africa
Heavy fighting reported in Ethiopian Tigray region
Officials in Ethiopia counted ballots on Tuesday after a parliamentary election billed as the first free vote in the country’s history but ...Former Ivory Coast president Gbagbo returns home after decade of exile
-Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo, ousted during a civil war in 2011 and acquitted of war crimes in The Hague, flew ...Sudan, main rebel group fail to reach peace deal
Sudan’s transitional government and the country’s main rebel group failed to reach a peace deal to end a decades-long conflict in the ...At least 138 killed in deadliest Burkina Faso attacks since 2015
Suspected jihadists have massacred at least 138 civilians in Burkina Faso’s volatile north in the deadliest attacks since Islamist violence erupted in ...Lost limbs, rising anger as town is caught up in Tigray war
Shops remained shuttered, some government workers hadn’t been paid and the town’s main hospital was utterly laid to waste. But the Tigrayan ...IMF and World Bank urge G7 to release surplus vaccines
The heads of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank on Thursday urged the Group of Seven advanced economies to release any ...Pressuring junta, France suspends joint military operations with Malian forces
France said on Thursday it was suspending its joint military operations with local troops in Mali as part of efforts to pressure ...Western Sahara independence leader lands in Algiers amid diplomatic row
The leader of the Western Sahara independence movement, Brahim Ghali, landed in Algiers early on Wednesday after his hospitalization in Spain for ...Over 90% in Ethiopia’s Tigray need emergency food aid: UN
More than 90 percent of people in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region need emergency food aid, the United Nations said Tuesday, as it ...France’s Macron asks Rwanda for forgiveness over genocide
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday recognised his country’s role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, from backing a genocidal regime to ...














