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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita met in Washington Tuesday amid rising tensions in the Middle East. The two leaders exchanged views on developments in North Africa and the Middle East.…

A top Sudanese general has said the army will press on with its offensive despite international efforts to broker a ceasefire in the 17-month civil war. “Peace talks can go on, but the army will not stop for that,” Assistant…

Kenya’s economy expanded by 4.6% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2024, down from 5.6% in the corresponding quarter of the previous year, the national statistics office said on Wednesday. The second quarter of 2023 gross domestic…

A rebel group in Congo generates around $300,000 a month in revenue through its control of a mining area in the east of the country, a U.N. official said. In April, the M23 — a rebel group with alleged links to Rwanda — seized…

Kenya's embattled Deputy President, Rigathi Gachagua, calls himself the “truthful man”, attributing his remarkable rise to the fact that he speaks truth to power. But as he faces impeachment proceedings, he says these troubles are also a…

At least 12 people died, including three infants, and 10 others were missing after their boat sank on Monday off the Tunisian coast Djerba as they sought to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.The coast guard rescued 29 people who had been on…

Libya’s eastern-based parliament agreed on Monday to approve the nomination of Naji Mohamed Issa Belqasem as the new governor of the central bank, part of efforts to end a crisis which has slashed the country’s oil output. In a televised…

The Sudanese army on Monday rejected an accusation by the United Arab Emirates that its forces had bombed the residence of the UAE ambassador in Khartoum, blaming instead the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The UAE…

Over South American skies next week, one ring will rule them all. An annular solar eclipse – known as a “ring of fire” – will be visible on Wednesday, October 2nd, over Easter Island and the tips of Argentina and Chile. But…

Seventeen people have been killed in a mass shooting in a remote South African town with a manhunt under way to find the perpetrators, police say. Two homesteads on the same street in the town of Lusikisiki, in the Eastern Cape, were…