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Tigrayan rebels have set up a team to negotiate with the Ethiopian government, a spokesman for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front told AFP on Monday, 20 months after war broke out in the northern region. The announcement comes less than a week after …

Sri Lanka’s acting president renewed the country’s state of emergency on Monday ahead of a parliamentary vote to pick a new head of state – a poll in which he is a leading candidate. Ranil Wickremesinghe automatically became acting president when Gotab…

An Egyptian’s defeat of his Israeli opponent in a fencing qualifying match for the World Championships in Cairo over the weekend sparked outrage online with some activists saying he should have boycotted the bout. Ahmed El-Sayed beat his opponent 15-12…

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday abruptly fired the head of Ukraine’s powerful domestic security agency, the SBU, and the state prosecutor general, alleging dozens of cases of collaboration with Russia by officials in their agencies. The sackings…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to the long-serving deputy secretary-general of his ruling African National Congress (ANC) party Jessie Duarte, who died on Sunday after a long battle with cancer. Duarte, 68, was elected to the …

Ghana has officially confirmed two cases of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, its health service said on Sunday, after two people who later died tested positive for the virus earlier this month. Tests conducted in Ghana c…

A powerful car bomb killed at least five people on Sunday outside a popular hotel in central Somalia, police and witnesses said, in an attack claimed by the Al-Shabaab militant group. The blast injured 14 others and destroyed not just the hotel but adj…

Tunisia’s ambassador to UNESCO Ghazi Gherairi has reportedly been dismissed by President Kais Saied due to his disagreement with the leader’s decisions, according to Arabi21 on Sunday. The dismissal was announced by former UN expert Abdel Wahab El-Hani…

All eight crew members were killed when a Ukrainian-operated cargo plane crashed in Greece en route from Serbia to Bangladesh carrying military goods, the Serbian defence minister said Sunday. According to a briefing by the Greek Fire Brigade Sunday af…

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said a US-Arab summit on Saturday did not discuss oil and that OPEC+ would continue to assess market conditions and do what is necessary. “There was no oil discussion at the summit,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud told…