Africa
The United Nations on Monday released $135 million from its humanitarian fund to help 12 countries in Africa, the Middle East and the Americas fight hunger, UN spokesman Farhan Haq said in a press briefing. "Today, the Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, released $135 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund to boost humanitarian ...
G7 countries and partners will invest $80 billion in the private sector across Africa, an official statement said on Monday. In the statement, UK Minister for Africa James ...
Polls opened in Algeria on Saturday for a parliamentary election that the ruling establishment hopes will turn a page on two years of political unrest, but which many ...
Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a third wave of coronavirus infections, with its epicentre in the capital, Kinshasa, one of Africa's most-populous cities, Health Minister Jean-Jacques Mbungani ...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday suggested France will pull troops from Mali if the country’s institutional instability persists and inhibits the fight against Islamic extremists. Macron told ...
The United Nations food agency says more than 90% of people in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray are in need of emergency food aid. "A total of 5.2 ...
Italy and Libya will work together on illegal immigration and renewable energies, Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah told reporters at a joint ...
Tunisian President Kais Saied met on Saturday with visiting President of the Libyan Presidency Council Mohamed Menfi to discuss ways to enhance bilateral cooperation. Saied and Menfi affirmed ...
Nigerian troops on Friday killed 10 Boko Haram militants while thwarting an attempted attack on a military base in the northeastern state of Borno, a spokesman for the army said on Saturday. Mohammed Yerima, the spokesman for the army, said in a statement that the militants came in their numbers, mounted on gun trucks, and ...
A male politician in Algeria has been widely criticised for referring to female candidates running in the legislative election as "strawberries". Aissa Belhadi, the Righteous Governance party leader, ...
