Africa

The multinational force was approved by the U.N. Security Council and is funded by donations. The U.S. has contributed $200 million.

A mutated strain of mpox spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo has estimated fatality rates of around 5% in adults and 10% in children.

Journalists saw at least three bodies outside the complex where police had opened fire.

Prayers against the rising sea are “on the lips of everybody” in the church every Sunday, according to youth leader Thompson Akingboye. But they know the solution will require far more.

The cause of the blasts at the military repository just before midnight wasn't immediately clear.

More than 50 settlements have burned repeatedly, suggesting “intent” and possible forced displacement, an open source investigator told NBC News.

Saulos Chilima was “a good man, a devoted father and husband, a patriotic citizen who served his country with distinction,” said Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera.

Under Uganda's new Anti-Homosexuality Act, same-sex intercourse is punishable by life in prison, while so-called aggravated homosexuality may lead to a death sentence.

The country’s largest labor unions are seeking a salary increase amid the worst cost of living crisis in decades.

The statement Friday comes more than a year into a war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

South Africans were set to wait with bated breath to see whether their country, Africa’s most advanced economy, was about to see momentous change.