Victor Wembanyama has been named captain of France for four games in August, marking a new leadership role for the NBA star as he returns to the national team. The 22-year-old will lead a squad featuring veterans Rudy Gobert and Evan Fournier in World Cup qualifying.
READ MORECampaigning for Nigeria’s general election got underway on Wednesday and voters are already making one thing clear: they want straight answers from the candidates about how they’ll improve the lives of citizens.
Sudan’s army says 318 Rapid Support Forces fighters, including four commanders, have defected and joined its ranks in the latest apparent surrender by paramilitary personnel. The move comes as defections increase and fighting continues to devastate the country more than three years into the war.
Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in 1834, but successive governments have rejected calls for reparations or a formal apology.
Tuesday marked a year since Gen Z-led violent protests against widespread corruption in Nepal forced the then prime minister, K.P. Sharma Oli to resign.
The International Monetary Fund took centre stage on Tuesday during debates in Senegal's National Assembly. Laying out the government’s general policy statement, Prime Minister Ahmadou Al Aminou Mohamed Lo defended its recent agreement with the IMF on a three year aid programme worth $2.2 billion.
Burundians in Nairobi flocked to their embassy on Monday to get travel documents, days after Kenyan president William Ruto ordered the closure of small businesses run by foreigners.
Dozens of exhibitors from several countries are taking part in the El Alamein International Air Show, held this week at the airport in Egypt's northwestern Mediterranean coast.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they have attacked and damaged two U.S. warships and eight oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, in what they call retaliation for a U.S. strike on Iranian tankers.
Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday wounded at least nine people and reduced buildings to rubble in various areas
The UN Security Council on Tuesday hailed an agreement reached by Libya's rival political groups that paves the way for elections to be held within two years.
Under the new text, the country will abandon the old system whereby the prime minister came from the parliamentary majority, which has led to uncomfortable power-sharing
Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema pledged to build on the economic turnaround achieved during his first term as he was sworn in for a new mandate Tuesday after tense elections
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