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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — For decades https://apnews.com/hub/senegal, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region. Leopold Sedar Senghor, the country’s first president and a poet, [...]

GOMA, Congo (AP) — At least 78 people died when an overcrowded boat capsized on https://apnews.com/video/democratic-republic-of-the-congo-water-shortages-d996b6271b49429f91c2d49d1f9520df on Thursday, a local governor said. A frantic search and rescue operation was underway [...]

KWINELLA, Gambia (AP) — Binta Bah met her husband last year on a dating app and instantly fell in love. They spent hours every day glued to their mobile phones [...]

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Extremist attacks in Sahel, an arid swath of land south of the Sahara in Africa, have proliferated in recent months: Last week, Islamic militants attacked Bamako, [...]

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's https://apnews.com/hub/bassirou-diomaye-faye dissolved the opposition-led parliament on Thursday, paving the way for a snap legislative election six months after he was voted in on an anti-establishment […]

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization launched on Friday a continent-wide response plan to the outbreak of mpox, three [...]

BEIJING (AP) — Dozens of https://apnews.com/hub/africa leaders gathered Thursday in Beijing for a summit that signals China's influence in a continent that it hopes will be a key ally in [...]

Byline: Monika Pronczuk and Ada Petriczko After Daria fled from her Russian-occupied village to western Ukraine, she spent weeks restlessly wandering the streets. Whenever she grew tired of walking, she [...]

After Daria fled from her Russian-occupied village to western Ukraine, she spent weeks restlessly wandering the streets. Whenever she grew tired of walking, she would sit on park benches and [...]

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A Swiss citizen has been arrested in Burkina Faso, Swiss authorities said on Wednesday, as the West African nation governed by a military junta continues to [...]

MLOMP, Senegal (AP) — It’s almost dusk, and the West African heat is finally faltering. In Mlomp, a village in southern Senegal, dozens of teenagers in colorful jerseys are throwing [...]

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Congolese government violated the rights of the Indigenous Batwa community by evicting them about 50 years ago from their ancestral lands to expand one of […]

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A European aid worker who was arrested two months ago in Central African Republic over spying allegations has begun a hunger strike to protest the conditions [...]

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In a global operation targeting West African organized crime groups across five continents, police arrested 300 people, seized $3 million and blocked 720 bank accounts, Interpol [...]

BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Lawmakers in the West African nation of Gambia on Monday rejected a bill that would have overturned a ban on female genital cutting. The attempt to [...]

Byline: Monika Pronczuk and Koba Ryckewaert For decades, Belgium failed to return the remains of hundreds of people taken by force from former colonies. A draft law could change that, [...]

For decades, Belgium failed to return the remains of hundreds of people taken by force from former colonies. A draft law could change that, but critics say it is not [...]

Amid news reports that European politicians received payments to promote Russian interests, the Czech government froze the assets of the men and a website, Voice of Europe. The Czech Republic [...]

Amid news reports that European politicians received payments to promote Russian interests, the Czech government froze the assets of the men and a website, Voice of Europe. The Czech Republic [...]

Using interest earned on frozen Russian assets held in Europe, the bloc plans to raise billions. But other ways to pay for new weapons remain elusive. Under tremendous pressure to [...]

Using interest earned on frozen Russian assets held in Europe, the bloc plans to raise billions. But other ways to pay for new weapons remain elusive. Under tremendous pressure to [...]

The 200 tons of food provided by a celebrity chef's charity arrived as UNICEF said rising numbers of children in Gaza were facing food deprivation. The first shipment of aid [...]

The first shipment of aid to reach Gaza by sea in almost two decades has been unloaded from a makeshift jetty and is to be distributed by truck throughout the [...]

The maritime package of more than 200 tons of food is a welcome milestone, but not nearly enough to prevent famine, said relief officials, who called on Israel to allow [...]

Relief organizations say cumbersome new strategies cannot substitute for Israel allowing more supply trucks into the Gaza Strip, while an airdrop of aid reportedly went awry and killed five people. [...]

Britain, the European Union and the United Arab Emirates will join the United States in opening a maritime route for humanitarian relief to Gaza, officials said on Friday, adding momentum [...]

The organization founded by the celebrity Spanish chef has served more than 32 million meals in Gaza, and he hopes to do more. The first sea shipment of humanitarian relief [...]

The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees confirmed Monday that hundreds of Palestinians had reported abuse under Israeli detention, responding to a question about https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/world/middleeast/unrwa-gaza-detention-israel.html?searchResultPosition=4 it had conducted [...]

An unpublished investigation by the main United Nations agency for Palestinian affairs accuses Israel of abusing hundreds of Gazans captured during the war with Hamas, according to a copy of [...]

UNRWA, the aid agency for Palestinians, is preparing to publish an investigation based on testimony from more than 100 detainees that accuses Israeli troops of abuse. An unpublished investigation by [...]

The European Union said on Friday that it planned to substantially increase its funding this year for UNRWA, the main U.N. agency providing aid to Palestinians in Gaza, and would [...]

Investigators looking into the drowning of more than 600 people off Greece say that the border agency known as Frontex cannot fulfill its mission. Eight months after hundreds of migrants [...]

The U.N. agency aiding Palestinian refugees said on Monday that European Union financial support is crucial to the agency, as it appealed to E.U. officials not to join other international [...]

Byline: Somini Sengupta and Monika Pronczuk Farmer protests across the continent have triggered a rollback of ambitious rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. The farmers' protests in [...]

The European Commission began a disciplinary procedure over recent legislation that focuses on contacts between foreigners and Hungarians. Just days after a major showdown between the European Union and Hungary [...]

Farmer protests across the continent have triggered a rollback of ambitious rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. The farmers' protests in Europe are a harbinger of the [...]

The European Commission began a disciplinary procedure over recent legislation that focuses on contacts between foreigners and Hungarians. Just days after a https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/world/europe/eu-hungary-ukraine-fund.html between the European Union and Hungary over [...]

European leaders authorized the long-term financing after Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, dropped his opposition. Opposition from Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary had been the primary obstacle to a [...]

Top European leaders coordinated to get the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, to agree to the 50-billion-euro plan aimed at keeping Ukraine's economy afloat during the war with Russia. Some [...]

European leaders authorized the long-term financing after Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, dropped his opposition. Opposition from Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary had been the primary obstacle to a [...]

Top European leaders coordinated to get the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, to agree to the 50-billion-euro plan aimed at keeping Ukraine’s economy afloat during the war with Russia. Some [...]

Europeans, insisting on Palestinian statehood, are frustrated by Israel's opposition and lack of a postwar plan for the devastated Gaza Strip. European foreign ministers pressed their Israeli counterpart on Monday [...]

European Union foreign ministers pressed Israel’s top diplomat on Monday to ease civilian suffering in Gaza and move toward supporting the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, in a closed-door [...]

Europeans, insisting on Palestinian statehood, are frustrated by Israel’s opposition and lack of a postwar plan for the devastated Gaza Strip. European foreign ministers pressed their Israeli counterpart on Monday [...]

Byline: Monika Pronczuk The military junta in Burkina Faso, a West African nation struggling to defeat extremist groups, has been forcibly conscripting critics, say human rights organizations. One Friday earlier [...]

The military junta in Burkina Faso, a West African nation struggling to defeat extremist groups, has been forcibly conscripting critics, say human rights organizations. One Friday earlier this month, just [...]

The military junta in Burkina Faso, a West African nation struggling to defeat extremist groups, has been forcibly conscripting critics, say human rights organizations. One Friday earlier this month, just [...]

A plan to use interest earned on frozen Russian central bank assets could provide up to 15 billion euros for Ukraine, but faces hurdles before final approval. Following months of [...]

Byline: Monika Pronczuk and Carmen Abd Ali Witness to a tragedy on a boat to Spain, Moustapha Diouf has made it his mission to persuade young people not to emigrate [...]

Witness to a tragedy on a boat to Spain, Moustapha Diouf has made it his mission to persuade young people not to emigrate from Senegal, but even he concedes that [...]