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A Tanzanian district has outlawed the use of scantily dressed mannequins outside of businesses. Rashid Msaraka, the district chief of Unguja town in the country’s Zanzibar islands, claimed that the directive was

IMF director Kristalina Georgieva answered questions from attendees at a town hall meeting on Tuesday (Jan. 24) at the University of Zambia about the work her organization does with the nation. Zambia

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was awarded the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Unesco Peace Prize on Wednesday in the Ivorian capital Yamoussoukro, recognizing her role in Germany’s massive 2015 refugee reception. “The jury sought

The lifting of the sanctions against Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea as a result of military coups will be discussed at a meeting of the African Union’s (AU) Peace and Security Council,

Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, charged that the West was putting pressure on developing nations to support Ukraine. On another leg of his African tour, Lavrov made his comments on

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) announced in a statement that it has halted operations in a region of northwest Burkina Faso where two of its employees were murdered by armed assailants on Wednesday.

Isaias Afwerki, the president of Eritrea, stated on Thursday that claims of rights violations committed by Eritrean troops in Ethiopia’s Tigray region during the two-year war there were “fantasy.” Isaias responded to

Guinea’s anti-junta coalition reported “many arrests” and injuries from live ammunition during clashes on Thursday between anti-junta protesters and security forces, according to a municipal official and the relatives of the deceased.