ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST — Former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo launched a new political party Saturday, formally breaking ties with those who ran his previous party while he spent years facing war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court.Gbag…
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok on Friday unveiled a road map to end what he described as the country’s “worst and most dangerous” political crisis in its two-year transition.Since a coup attempt in late September, Sudan’s military and civilian …
LAGOS, NIGERIA — Nigeria’s military claimed Thursday that Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the leader of an Islamic State-linked extremist group blamed for killing hundreds in the northeast, had died. There was no immediate confirmation from the militants.At a ne…
The United Nations’ migration agency has recalled a staff member identified by two U.N. sources in Addis Ababa as the head of its mission to Ethiopia over audio recordings containing criticism of senior U.N. officials.In the recordings, two women who s…
The party of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was the largest vote-getter in Iraqi parliamentary elections, according to initial results released Monday.A count based on partial results shows the Shiite Muslim cleric has won more than 70 seats in the 329-seat pa…
WASHINGTON — Add U.S. military officials to the crescendo of voices warning Mali’s interim government against brokering any deal to use mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group to help with security and counterterrorism.For weeks, U.S. and French officia…
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his family are among the world leaders said to have hidden away billions of dollars in secret offshore accounts.Records obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists show the Kenyatta family h…
ALGIERS — Algeria on Saturday rejected “inadmissible interference” in its affairs, hours after recalling its ambassador from Paris following comments by French President Emmanuel Macron reported by the French and Algerian media.The statement, from the …
CONAKRY, GUINEA — Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, who led last month’s coup in Guinea, promised to respect the country’s international commitments while transitioning to civilian rule as he was sworn in as interim president on Friday.Doumbouya, who led the o…
Delayed elections are underway Thursday in four regions of Ethiopia.Voters in three regions will decide who wins dozens of parliamentary seats in the last round of voting before Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed forms a new government on Oct. 4.Voters in the f…
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