Africa
A statement issued by the Indian government has confirmed that the invitations sent by South Africa for the BRICS/Africa meeting, scheduled for August 24 in Johannesburg, are unilateral and national in nature. The statement said that Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi was expected in South Africa on August 22-24 to take part in the ...
China's President Xi Jinping on Monday flew to South Africa to attend the 15th BRICS summit and co-chair the China-Africa Leaders' Dialogue, state media reported. On a state ...
Pope Francis expressed hope Sunday for a peaceful solution to the crisis in Niger following the military coup in the West African nation. The pontiff told the faithful ...
South Africa, by claiming that Morocco has submitted a bid to join the "BRICS", in the absence of an official confirmation from Rabat, wanted to make the world ...
Morocco called for solidarity-based cooperation and regional multi-stakeholder integration to combat plastic pollution at the 19th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment in Addis Ababa on Friday. Speaking ...
No one in Sudan expected the war that erupted between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group would last nearly five months with no clear ...
West African army chiefs were due to hold a second and final day of talks on Friday in Ghana's capital Accra, where they have been hashing out the ...
More than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying mostly Senegalese migrants capsized off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean. The boat left ...
Niger's military junta has announced plans to prosecute deposed President Mohamed Bazoum for high treason and undermining national security. This is the latest sign that the junta intends to resist international pressure to return power to Mr Bazoum. He has been held in the basement of his palace since the military staged a coup about ...
One week after a deadline passed for mutinous soldiers in Niger to reinstate the country’s ousted president or face military intervention, the junta has not acquiesced. No military ...
