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US Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Friday his Justice Department will aggressively enforce voting rights at a time when many Republican-led states are tightening election laws and supporters of former President Donald Trump…

Thousands of people marched on Friday in support of a Canadian Muslim family killed by a man driving a pick-up truck last Sunday in an attack the police described as a hate crime. The four victims were killed when Nathaniel Veltman, 20,…

Algerians headed for the polls on Saturday for a parliamentary election that the ruling establishment hopes will turn a page on two years of political unrest. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has called for a high turnout, but there has been…

Mali’s transitional government announced on Friday it had restored Colonel Sadio Camara as Defence Minister, after his removal from office was one of the factors that led to a coup that toppled President Bah Ndaw last month. Camara was one…

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday France's operation battling militants in the West Africa’s Sahel region would come to an end with troops now operating as part of broader international efforts in the region. France, the…

The United States is providing more than $181 million to deliver food, water and aid to feed more than three million people facing famine in the Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The aid, provided through the US Agency for International…

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will suspend entry for travellers coming from Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda starting June 11, as part of efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the National Emergency Crisis and…

Democratic Republic of Congo will start a phased return of residents who fled Goma in the aftermath of a volcanic eruption that destroyed thousands of homes, the government said on Monday. The government said it would provide buses and…

The United States on Monday imposed visa restrictions on individuals believed to be undermining efforts to end the Cameroon's conflict between state forces and English-speaking rebels. Cameroon's two western Anglophone regions have been…

Africa is not ready to face a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday, as the continent is hit by a fresh surge of infections and with vaccine deliveries at a near standstill. "Many…