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Sixty-five members of a Kenyan doomsday cult, who were rescued from the Shakahola Forest, are appearing in court to face charges of attempted suicide. In Kenya, attempted suicide is illegal. Likewise, aiding suicide, failing to take…

More than 150,000 people in India and Pakistan have been evacuated from the path of a fierce cyclone a day before its expected landfall. Forecasters have warned that Cyclone Biparjoy - which means "disaster" in Bengali- could destroy…

Officials in Sudan say the governor of the West Darfur region has been killed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Only hours earlier, Khamis Abbakar had accused both the RSF and allied militias of committing genocide against…

Nations Mission of Support in Libya (Manul) expressed its concern on Monday at the arbitrary detention of migrants and asylum seekers, calling on the Libyan authorities to treat them with "dignity". The UN is "concerned about the massive…

Kenya’s President William Ruto has expressed his country's commitment to a “face-to-face” meeting with the warring generals in Sudan in order to resolve the crisis there. He said Kenya - as the chair of the regional “quartet” of…

The Ethiopian army on Wednesday "thwarted" an attack by Somali Islamist Shebab fighters against a border town between the two countries, the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said. "Ethiopia today successfully thwarted an attempted attack by…

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the Moroccan parliament lately to protest against the visit of Israeli Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana. The protesters were clearly against the recent normalization ties between…

Police have fired tear gas to disperse Kenyan protesters demonstrating in the capital against some of the government’s proposed measures to impose new or higher taxes on items including fuel. One of the key contested measures in the…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says it would have been "physically impossible" for the Kakhovka dam to have been blown up from outside its immediate area. It's not yet been established what caused the dam to be destroyed. He says…

People walk over a footbridge in Dakar, on June 5, 2023, as protest calmed down four days after a court in Senegal sentenced opposition leader Ousmane Sonko - Normalcy is finally settling in Senegal after deadly confrontations between…