2024

A local chief tells the BBC some of the 280 abducted schoolchildren are in a “critical condition”.

France’s parliament on Thursday backed a string of measures making low-cost fast fashion, especially from Chinese mass producers, less attractive to buyers.

The disgraced ex-president has ditched the ANC, spelling danger for the party that ended apartheid.

Ghana is spending almost $250m hosting the African Games, and the country’s outlay amid a time of economic turmoil has brought scrutiny.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will receive French President Emmanuel Macron in Berlin on Friday after tensions between the leaders blew out into the open over… Read More »Scholz, Tusk and Macron set to meet in Berlin to mend differences over Ukraine

Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and his second-in-command, presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye, were released from prison in Dakar on Thursday evening, 10 days before… Read More »Senegal’s top opposition leaders Sonko, Faye released from prison, says lawyer

Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said early Friday that Israeli fire killed 20 people and wounded 155 waiting to receive aid in the besieged territory, where… Read More »🔴Live: Israeli army says it did not open fire on Gazans waiting for aid

Russia began voting on Friday in an election set to prolong President Vladimir Putin’s rule by six more years, as Kyiv branded the vote a… Read More »Voting starts in Russian presidential election as Ukraine launches border attacks

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a bid by Donald Trump to throw out out his classified documents criminal case, and appeared skeptical during hours… Read More »Judge rejects bid by Trump to dismiss classified documents case

Opening remarks by UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous to the Generation Equality side event at the 68th session of the Commission… Read More »Speech: Ambitiously proactive – Generation Equality brings hope to stalled progress and financing