The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Joe Biden's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, on a 78 to 20 vote.
Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was shot and killed on Monday after armed assailants ambushed his U.N. convoy as he traveled in eastern DRC, the…
Libya collapsed into a series of warring factions in the aftermath of the 2011 NATO-assisted uprising which toppled the Gaddafi government. Last month marked the tenth anniversary of the protests…
In January, the Russian embassy in Egypt said that Russia was ready to deliver the Sputnik V vaccine to the North African country as well as to organise the technology…
South Africa’s former president failed to show up at a corruption inquiry. The country’s Constitutional Court is now deciding whether he should be arrested.
During Algeria’s 2019 Hirak protests, the largest demonstrations were typically held on Tuesdays. While the COVID-19 pandemic put a damper on last year’s protests, in 2021 they seem to be…
Over 1,500 people have died in Nigeria in the first six weeks of 2021 due to general insecurity including terrorist attacks from the Nigerian Islamist terror group Boko Haram and…
CAIRO—The interior minister of Libya’s U.N.-backed government survived an ambush by gunmen on his motorcade on Feb. 21, a brazen attack highlighting the towering challenges that remain for the newly…
KAMPALA—Opposition leader Bobi Wine said on Monday he was dropping a legal challenge to Uganda's presidential election results that handed victory to incumbent Yoweri Museveni, saying Supreme Court justices hearing…
UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to swiftly investigate the attack in which the Italian ambassador to that country…