Africa 54

01/13/2025

LIVE: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers his final foreign policy address at the State Department.

12/07/2024

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is in France’s capital, Paris, on his first international trip since he won the November 5 elections.

Trump is set to meet and hold diplomatic talks with French President Emmanuel Macron who will later meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Several world leaders are in Paris to mark the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral after a devastating fire in 2019. (AP)

07/06/2023

The death toll from an overnight gas cylinder leak in a South African shantytown rose to 17 on Thursday, as one local official blamed the accident on an illegal mining operation that went wrong.

07/06/2023

Earth’s average temperature on Wednesday remained at an unofficial record high set the day before, the latest grim milestone in a week that has seen series of climate-change-driven extremes.

07/06/2023

Nigeria's average daily petrol consumption has fallen by 28% since President Bola Tinubu scrapped a popular but costly subsidy on the fuel at the end of May, data from the industry regulator shows.

07/06/2023

The West African country of Togo has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Wednesday.

PARIS — The West African country of Togo has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Wednesday.

05/06/2023

View of Buckingham Palace on day of King Charles' coronation.

04/24/2023

Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a joint media availability with Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Dr. Alfred Mutua.

03/27/2023

US Vice President Harris holds news conference with Ghana's President Akufo-Addo in Accra

03/23/2023

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01/04/2023

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LIVE - The U.S. House of Representatives votes on a new Speaker of the House after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy failed on three ballots yesterday to get the 218 votes needed to take the post.