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South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has appointed a new defence minister to replace Angelina Teny, whom he sacked earlier this month. The appointment of Gen Chol Thon Balok has been announced in a presidential decree read on the national…

A health official in the Tunisian province of Sfax has warned that the number of bodies of sub-Saharan migrants recovered from shipwrecks in recent days are more than the local medical system can handle. State news agency TAP cited the…

Police in Malawi will declare 537 missing persons dead after Tropical Storm Freddy unleashed devastation in the country. The storm saw mudslides sweep through neighbourhoods and bury people in the mud. The head of the disaster…

Peru has announced a “definitive recall” of its ambassador to Colombia, accusing its neighbour, as it did with Mexico last month, of downplaying Former President Pedro Castillo’s recent attempted power grab which led to his removal and…

A French court has sentenced a Rwanda man to four years in jail for starting a fire that severely damaged a Gothic cathedral in the western city of Nantes in 2020. On Wednesday, the court ruled that Emmanuel Abayisenga, a volunteer at…

Botswana Defence Force (BDF) has denied reports that its soldiers deployed in northern Mozambique for peacekeeping are starving due to a shortage of food. The army dismissed a local newspaper report titled 'BDF troops starving', terming…

Morocco presented, on Tuesday in Geneva, the foundations and content of its pioneering experience in migration management, particularly in terms of upgrading the legal framework for migration, asylum, and the fight against human…

A ferry carrying about 250 passengers and crew has caught fire in the southern Philippines and 31 people drowned or died in the blaze which was discovered later, according to a provincial governor. Many of those rescued had jumped off…

Orthodox Christian clerics say they will stay at a historic monastery in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, despite a planned government-ordered eviction of hundreds of priests, monks and students. The Pechersk Lavra is a seat of Ukraine's…

Lesotho's parliament has debated a motion to claim huge swathes of territory from its much larger neighbour, South Africa. An opposition MP wants to declare a Free State and parts of four other provinces "Lesotho's territory". The…