Tunis (AFP) - Tunisia declared a war on corruption on Wednesday after the arrest of three businessmen and a customs officer on suspicion of graft and financing protests in the North African country. Corruption was widespread under longtime president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was ousted in a 2011 uprising, and has remained endemic since. ...

Rome (AFP) - At least 34 people including young children drowned Wednesday when they fell off an overloaded migrant vessel in the Mediterranean, where tensions are rising between aid ships and the Libyan coastguard. There's a critical situation today. About 200 people fell into the water, an Italian coastguard spokesman told AFP, saying 34 bo ...

Vatican City (AFP) - US President Donald Trump told Pope Francis on Wednesday he was committing more than $300 million (270 million euros) to help prevent or tackle famine in Yemen and several countries in Africa. Trump, meeting the pontiff for the first time, said he had renewed the US commitment to fighting global famine , with the United N ...

Responding to reports that Ethiopia rsquo;s Federal High Court has found prominent Ethiopian journalist Getachew Shiferaw guilty of ldquo;provocation of revolt, rdquo; Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty International rsquo;s Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes, said: ldquo;Today rsquo;s groundless ruling is a further s ...

Mogadishu (AFP) - The Islamic State group has claimed its first suicide attack in Somalia that left at least five people dead as it steps up activities in a region dominated by the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab. The group's self-styled news agency Amaq claimed the martyrdom-seeking operation with an explosive vest in a statement carried by the SITE ...

Algiers (AFP) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Wednesday appointed a new prime minister, replacing his confidant Abdelmalek Sellal in the wake of parliamentary elections. Bouteflika's National Liberation Front (FLN) and its ruling coalition won a clear majority in the May 4 polls, but turnout was low amid public disillusionment over ...

Ahmedabad, India, May 24, 2017 ndash; The African Development Bank (AfDB) has proposed new investment strategies in Africa rsquo;s agriculture sector, which, if properly implemented, would effectively alter the market structures around the world in favour of the African farmers of major cash crops like tea, coffee and cocoa. AfDB Vice-Pr ...

Rome (AFP) - At least 30 migrants including young children drowned Wednesday when they fell off an overloaded vessel in the Mediterranean, where tensions are rising between aid ships and the Libyan coast guard. There's a critical situation today. About 200 people fell into the water, a coastguard spokesman told AFP, while a humanitarian worker ...

Geneva (AFP) - The World Health Organization should expand its donor base to better withstand the shock from planned deep budget cuts in Washington, Tedros Adhanom, the newly elected agency head, said Wednesday. A day after he became the first African to head the WHO, the former Ethiopian health minister told reporters in Geneva he had been in ...

Ahmedabad, India, May 24, 2017 ndash; The African Development Bank (AfDB) has embarked on a fund-raising drive to finance the expansion of energy with the immediate aim of connecting 200 million people with clean energy even as it continues its push to unlock barriers to effective investments in the agriculture sector. The Abidjan-headqu ...

Mogadishu (AFP) - The Islamic State group has claimed its first suicide attack in Somalia, which police said Wednesday killed five people at a checkpoint in the northeastern port city of Bosaso. The group's self-styled news agency Amaq claimed the martyrdom-seeking operation with an explosive vest in a statement carried by the SITE Intelligenc ...

Rome (AFP) - One year ago an Eritrean was arrested in Sudan on charges of heading a major people-smuggling network and extradited to Italy, where he has languished in jail ever since -- despite persistent claims the police got the wrong man. Sicilian prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi hailed the arrest as a turning point in the fight against human tra ...