CAIRO (AP) — International experts portrayed a grim picture for war-torn Sudan in a report Thursday warning that 755,000 people are facing famine in the coming months, amid relentless clashes between rival generals. The fighting has created a hunger catastrophe at a scale not seen since the Darfur conflict in …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranians voted Friday in a snap election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, with the race’s sole reformist candidate vowing to seek “friendly relations” with the West in an effort to energize supporters in a vote beset by apathy. Voters face a …

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Nearly 2 million people go to the polls on Saturday in Mauritania, a vast desert nation in West Africa which positions itself as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept by coups and violence, but has been denounced for rights abuses. President Mohamed …

Muhamad Yehia News Analysis Televised presidential debates, like the Trump-absent Republican debate on Wednesday, have been historically viewed as a showcase for voters wanting to hear a candidate’s response to policy questions or sometimes outright attacks. But the format hasn’t changed significantly since the first televised Nixon-Kennedy debate almost 63 …

BBC News, London & Johannesburg EPA South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to address the State of the Nation, Cape Town, South Africa – 07 Feb 2024EPA President Cyril Ramaphosa led the ANC to its worst-ever election result South Africa’s main coalition partners are at loggerheads just weeks after agreeing to …

Kenya’s President William Ruto says he will withdraw a finance bill containing controversial tax hikes after deadly protests which saw parliament set ablaze on Tuesday. In an address to the nation, he said it was clear that Kenyans “want nothing” to do with the bill. “I concede,” he said, adding …

By Reutters Demonstration against Kenya’s proposed finance bill 2024/2025 in Nairobi People attend a demonstration against Kenya’s proposed finance bill 2024/2025 in Nairobi, Kenya, June 25. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab WASHINGTON, yesterday– Kenyan activist Auma Obama, the half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama, was among …

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president called the storming of parliament on Tuesday a national security threat and vowed that such unrest won’t happen again “at whatever cost.” President William Ruto spoke in a national address hours after part of the parliament building was burned as thousands of protesters against …

In just over five years, there’s a good chance that you will be able to board a high-speed train in Madrid and travel from Spain to the Moroccan city of Casablanca in five and a half hours, hurtling through a new tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar. This may sound …

Defense chiefs from 30 African countries will gather in Botswana for a two-day military conference to discuss the continent’s security and stability challenges. The meeting, organized by the United States Africa Command, or AFRICOM, will be the first to be held in Africa since the inaugural conference in 2017 “The …