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  • Traore, pictured as he was about to deliver a New Year's address on December 31, 1985

    Moussa Traore, who led Mali for 22 years, has died: family

  • US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, pictured at the US Senate in June 2020, said the US must be allowed to defend itself against unfair trade practices

    WTO 'completely inadequate' on China trade violations: US

  • Arsenal captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has signed a new contract

    Arsenal captain Aubameyang signs new three-year contract

  • In 2012, the IMF suspended its aid to the country under former president Joseph Kabila because of concerns about corruption in the mining sector.

    IMF calls for transparency in DRCongo mining contracts

  • Ivory Coast

    Anger flares in Ivory Coast after election candidates barred

  • Even as Facebook has stepped up efforts to stop manipulation and disinformation, a fired data scientist says the social network is failing on that front

    Facebook failing to stop political manipulation: fired employee

  • A court sketch by artist Johan Hallnas shows the defendant Daniel Nyqvist (front right), accused of committing a double murder in 2004

    Swede on trial for murder after DNA hit on genealogy site

  • International Red Cross (ICRC) president Peter Maurer visited the Kaya centre in northern Burkina Faso over the weekend

    Burkina's victims of jihadist violence find welcome at free health clinic

  • The scene resembled a war zone

    Paris city hall charged over deadly 2019 gas explosion

  • Sudan has recorded the highest water levels on the Blue Nile since records began and severe flooding has affected over 650,000 people

    Sudan pleads for aid to tackle devastating floods

  • Ivory Coast

    I.Coast: Events leading up to Ouattara candidacy

  • Supporters of Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni, who was sentenced to two years in prison, had been hoping for a lenient judgement, if not acquittal

    Algerian journalist Drareni jailed for two years on appeal

  • A local police source told AFP an operation to round up suspects had taken place on Monday on the roadside where thousands of asylum seekers have been sleeping since the camp burned down on September 8.

    Five migrants arrested over Greek camp fire: minister

  • The Moria fire forced its 12,000 former occupants to sleep rough in abandoned buildings, on roadsides and even rooftops

    Germany to take in 1,500 refugees from Greek islands

  • Mongolians in the capital Ulaanbaatar protest against Beijing's plan to introduce Mandarin-only classes at schools in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia

    Chinese foreign minister visit prompts Mongolian protests

  • The head of the Malian military junta, Col. Assimi Goita, centre, arriving in Ghana for the ECOWAS summit

    West Africa leaders press Mali junta over transition

  • fell ill on a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow after a trip to support opposition candidates in local elections

    Navalny says 'able to breathe' unaided after suspected poisoning

  • Chinese manufacturers have been bullish about development, with companies Sinovac Biotech and Sinopharm even putting their vaccine candidates on display at a trade fair in Beijing this month

    China says Covid-19 vaccine could be ready for public by November

  • Workers building temporary shelters for coronavirus patients on a football pitch in Yangon, where new infections have spiked prompting opposition parties to call for a postponement of elections due in November

    Calls grow for Myanmar election delay as coronavirus cases spike

  • Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid tells AFP it is in his country's interest to resume peace negotiations with the Palestinians rather than strike separate deals with pro-Western Gulf states

    Netanyahu will not talk to Palestinians: opposition chief

  • Hundreds of migrants have reluctantly made their way to the new site in the searing heat

    Hundreds of migrants housed in new Lesbos camp after fire

  • Taiwan bird watchers taking photos at the Da'An Forest Park in Taipei. A Taiwan bird protection group has been ejected from a global body because it refused to sign a statement saying it would never advocate for the island's independence

    Taiwan bird group blames political flap for ejection from global network

  • Thousands of Hong Kongers took part in a ceremony to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown despite it being banned by authorities

    Two dozen Hong Kong activists in court over banned Tiananmen vigil

  • Police and prosecutors withholding evidence is behind a large number of false convictions in US courts, according to a new study

    Wrongful convictions: US police withhold evidence in many cases

  • The defendants were found guilty of organising and brokering illegal emigration

    Vietnam jails four people over Britain truck tragedy

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