The OPEC+ group of oil exporters meets Wednesday to discuss another output increase, weeks after US President Joe Biden sought to persuade Saudi Arabia to boost production during a controversial…
Sudan has detected its first monkeypox case, health authorities said Monday, after the World Health Organization last month declared the disease a public health emergency of international concern. The health…
Security, peace- and state-building, as well as the drought, were among issues covered in discussions today by the top United Nations officials in Somalia on his visit to the country’s…
At least six people were killed and dozens injured on Monday when a fuel truck exploded in southwestern Libya, medics said. The precise causes of the blast were not clear.…
Two protesters were shot dead in South Africa on Monday during a demonstration against rising utility prices that was fired upon by police. The protest took place in the township…
The death toll from weekend flooding in the eastern Ugandan town of Mbale has risen to 22, with 10 seriously injured, police said Monday. Two rivers burst their banks after…
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres “warmly welcomes” the departure Monday of a first ship carrying Ukrainian grain under a plan to lift Russia’s naval blockade, a spokesperson said. “The Secretary-General…
Former Philippine president Fidel Ramos, who oversaw a rare period of steady growth and peace that won him the reputation as one of the country’s most effective leaders ever, has…
A Brazilian woman and her two adult children, all suffering from dehydration and malnutrition, were freed by police following 17 years of captivity by her husband, authorities said on Friday.…
A gang of gunmen forced their way into a music video shoot and raped eight young women from the cast in a small South African town this week, police said…