DAKAR, Senegal — People in Senegal's capital, Dakar, are breathing a sigh of relief after officials removed from its port 3,050 tons of ammonium nitrate, the same substance at a slightly lesser ...

Dar es Salaam. Today, April 26, 2025, marks 61 years since Tanganyika and Zanzibar united to form the Republic of the Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar—renamed the United Republic of Tanzania in ...

A joint statement from Congo's government and a coalition of insurgents in the country’s east including the M23 rebels says ...

According to Captain Ibrahima Sow, Director of Information and Public Relations of the Armed Forces (DIRPA), the operation ...

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Today, only 3% of humanitarian aid goes to education. Yet the children most in need of a good education are also at greatest risk of having their learning disrupted, whether by conflict, violence, ...

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DENVER (AP) — Suspected of backing a coup plot against the longtime dictator of Gambia nearly 20 years ago, Pharing Sanyang described Thursday how he was beaten with pipes and palm tree branches, ...

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Jim Thompson (left), chair of Region D, raises his hand with fellow members voting unanimously to declare the proposed Marvin Nichols Reservoir an interregional conflict with the Region C Water ...