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President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt was sworn in for a third six-year term on Tuesday after being re-elected in a December vote in which he faced no serious challengers. El-Sissi took the oath of office before parliament, which…

Mosques in New York City are struggling to house and feed migrants this holy month of Ramadan. An imam in the Bronx mosque has turned the home that houses his mosque into a makeshift shelter for migrants, many of them men from his…

Top diplomats from Egypt, Jordan and France have met in Cairo for talks. Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry received French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi in the Egyptian capital.…

Activists and opposition leaders in Togo called on Wednesday for protests to stop the country's president from signing off on a new constitution that would scrap future presidential elections and could see Faure Gnassingbé extend his rule.…

The Pentagon is working with Nigerien authorities to find a way to keep U.S. troops in the country a key base for counterterrorism operations in sub-Saharan Africa, following a weekend directive ordering them to leave the country. Last…

Backers of detained opposition presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye are taking his campaign to the streets of Senegal with posters and bracelets, drumming up support in the hope he will be released before the vote. Faye was…

The Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) is holding a week long capacity building training tagged "Train the Trainers" for security experts in the Anglophone countries of the ECOWAS at the National…

Stakeholders of research and education in Africa are set to gather to deliberate and determine a clear path to a more sustainable future and prepare to tackle emerging challenges and realities in a 2024 conference organized by the West and…

Rwanda will receive at least $470million from the UK as part of the plan to have asylum seekers in the UK relocate there. The UK government's spending watchdog National Audit Office (NAO) on Friday revealed up to $190, 000 will also be…

In a gathering spanning four days in the heart of Burkina Faso's capital, the annual steering committee of the SWEDD (Sahel Women's Empowerment and Demographic Dividend) project concluded with a resolute vision for the upcoming year.…