Africa

The African Union (AU) Commission and the World Health Organization (WHO) have renewed their longstanding strategic partnership through an updated Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed on May 24, 2025, during the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva. This renewed commitment…

A deadly attack by suspected Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (EIGS) fighters on a military outpost in Eknewan, Niger, resulted in the deaths of 41 Nigerien Armed Forces (FAN) personnel early Saturday, MSN reported. The nearly three-hour assault marked…

Ethiopian health officials announced the country’s first confirmed mpox infections on Sunday, diagnosing a 21-day-old baby and the child’s mother in Moyale, a strategic border town near Kenya and Somalia, Anadolu Agency reported. Authorities linked the cases to cross-border exposure,…

Amnesty International Ghana has renewed calls for constitutional reform to abolish the death penalty for high treason, following Ghana’s 2023 repeal of capital punishment for most crimes. The group also urged commuting 182 existing death sentences to life imprisonment. Vice…

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has issued a stark warning about the rapidly worsening human rights situation in South Sudan, marked by escalating violence, arbitrary arrests, and inflammatory rhetoric, Anadolu Agency reported. Since February, clashes between government…

The Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced former Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo to 10 years of forced labour for embezzling up to $247 million in public funds, TRT Global reported on Tuesday. The verdict concludes…

A new French translation and interpretation of the Quran has been published in Rabat by Al-Buraq Publications, Iqna reported. Created by Abdel Haq Azouzi, this three-volume work (3,200 pages) goes beyond literal translation to preserve the beauty, accuracy, and spiritual…

Libyan authorities discovered 58 unidentified bodies in Abu Salim Accidents Hospital on Monday, marking the second such discovery in days, Arab News reported. The remains, some burned or decomposed, were found in a morgue refrigerator previously controlled by the Stabilization…

Europe is facing a significant weather shift as a long period of unusually dry conditions in the northwest is expected to end this week, The Guardian reported. Strong Atlantic weather systems are moving in, bringing much-needed rainfall to the UK,…

Somalia initiated a nationwide immunization campaign on Monday, aiming to protect over 3.1 million children under five from measles, polio, and pneumonia, Anadolu Agency reported. The week-long effort, led by the World Health Organization (WHO) in partnership with Somali authorities…