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WASHINGTON/CAIRO, Reuters: Israel and Hamas said they had agreed to a long-awaited ceasefire and hostage deal, the first phase of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end a war in Gaza…

KHARTOUM, Xinhua: At least 12 people were killed and 17 others injured on Wednesday when the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeted a major hospital in El Fasher, western Sudan,…

DAR ES SALAAM, Reuters: Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu will go on trial on Monday for treason, weeks before the East African country holds an election that his party has been barred…

KHARTOUM, Xinhua: At least 32 journalists have been killed since the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted in April 2023, the…

CAIRO/WASHINGTON, Reuters: President Donald Trump told Israel on Friday to immediately stop bombing Gaza after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a U.S. plan to end the war, but…

ADDIS ABABA, Xinhua: The African Union (AU) has launched a decade-long initiative to improve learning across Africa and elevate teachers’ role in the continent’s development. This came as the three-day…

WASHINGTON, Reuters: President Donald Trump’s administration is preparing to set a refugee admissions cap at 7,500 people this fiscal year, a record low that prioritizes white South Africans of Afrikaner…

BEIJING, Xinhua: People across the country marked the 76th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China on Wednesday with travel, shopping and family reunions as an eight-day holiday began. Hundreds…

REUTERS|WASHINGTON/CAIRO/JERUSALEM – President Donald Trump secured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s backing on Monday for a U.S.-sponsored peace proposal to end a nearly two-year-old war in Gaza, but questions loomed over…