Category: Rest of Africa

All Angolan 178 lawmakers present in the country’s 220-member parliament voted for the military deployment.

Blinken is the highest-ranking US official ever to visit the former French colony, where both France and the US maintain forces to battle insurgencies in the troubled Sahel region.

Police fired tear gas at stone-hurling protesters in Senegal's capital on Thursday ahead of a court case involving a prominent opposition politician that has triggered anger among youth.

Blinken will be the first top US diplomat ever to visit the former French colony, a key military base for Western forces to battle extremists in the troubled Sahel region.

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Lacking sniffer dogs and armed just with shovels, rescuers in storm-ravaged Malawi on Thursday made a grim hunt for buried bodies after Cyclone Freddy struck the southern African country, killing more than 300 people.

According to a statement released by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Chief Rafael Grossi, the finding resulted from an inspection carried out on Tuesday which was originally planned for last year but had to be postponed because of insecurity in the Sahara region.

Visiting Ethiopia to repair relations that were strained by the two-year war in the country’s northern region, Blinken met with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and discussed ongoing efforts to solidify peace, restore basic services and address humanitarian needs.

On a night in early March, arsonists attacked a brewery owned by the French drinks giant Castel in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic.

"Today I am announcing more than $331 million in new humanitarian assistance for Ethiopia in FY 2023 through the Department of State and the US Agency for International Development (USAID)," he said.