Africa
9 Mar 2017
Egypt’s external finances improved following the Nov. 3 decision to float the pound, the central bank said, as inflows from investments, remittances and exports picked up.
8 Mar 2017
As the world observes International Women's Day, a group of Senegalese law experts are helping to empower women by teaching them their rights in "law shops".
8 Mar 2017
ECOWAS Community Court of Justice dismissed the Nigerian Government’s preliminary objections in the suit filed by the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu and two others for the enforcement of their fundamental human rights.
7 Mar 2017
Thai police have arrested a Gambian national suspected of smuggling over 660 pounds (300kg) of ivory from Africa.
5 Mar 2017
Forces loyal to Libya's General Khalifa Haftar have lost control of two major oil terminals. An east Libyan armed group called the Benghazi Defence Brigades raided the ports on Friday. At least nine men were killed in the fighting.
3 Mar 2017
Critics are condemning the Zimbabwe government’s sale of elephants to countries such as China. A live elephant can retail at about $60,000 depending on its size, age and health.
3 Mar 2017
Conservative candidate François Fillon is facing major defections from his camp, this after vowing to stay in the presidential race despite a probe into alleged fake jobs.
2 Mar 2017
In Egypt's conservative southern province of Minya, young girls in black leotards and white tights wobble on their tip toes to classical music in a room painted with colourful motifs.
27 Feb 2017
Dozens of people have been killed in a series of armed attacks in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Meanwhile, a political crisis in the capital, Kinshasa, is worsening, with the saying it lacks resources to hold elections.
27 Feb 2017
Rights activists say more than 1,000 people have been killed in a series of massacres in Beni, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the past three years.
26 Feb 2017
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, says he has no plans to step down. His country is in the midst of an economic crisis, but that didn't stop tens of thousands of dollars being spent on his 93rd birthday.
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A review into Britain's largest police force has found "institutional racism, sexism and homophobia" and has called for "radical reform."
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Albert Ho, a prominent pro-democracy figure in Hong Kong, has once again been arrested. He is already facing up to a decade in prison for other charges under the national security law.
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Experts say the drop in oxygen levels in the water after the recent floods receded likely caused the mass death, as well as hot temperatures due to climate change.
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The French government's decision to force through its pension reform has sparked angry demonstrations across the country, with many videos of chaos in Paris circulating online. However, as credible as they may seem, some of these videos have been taken out of context, as Emerald Maxwell explains.
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On World Storytelling Day, we ask if this human art will be supplanted by articifial intelligence? Or do chatbots lack the human factor to recreate the drama and nuance of good storytelling?
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European shares logged their steepest weekly drop in five months amid continued turbulence in the global banking sector. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz doesn't think Europe is heading for a new financial crisis.