A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: Days later in the same city, breeders ...

It has been a humiliating week for nearly 300 Romanian mercenaries recruited to fight on the side of the army in the ...

In 2012, when M23 rebels appeared poised to seize control of a major city in eastern Congo, western countries suspended aid ...

A conflict that has raged for decades reached a flashpoint this week when rebels backed by Rwanda marched on a key Congolese ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have claimed control of eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions ...

A Rwanda-backed militia seized the pivotal Congolese city of Goma this week, threatening a new humanitarian crisis after ...

The M23 group is one of about 100 armed factions vying for a foothold in eastern Congo in one of Africa’s longest wars, which ...

(Beirut) – The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s government in December 2024 created new possibilities to ensure accountability for years of atrocity crimes and the opportunity to establish a new ...

(Beirut) – Warring parties in Yemen, especially the Houthis, further repressed civil society and obstructed and endangered the provision of humanitarian aid in 2024, Human Rights Watch said ...

A record 10,457 migrants, or 30 people a day, died trying to reach Spain in 2024, most while attempting to cross the Atlantic route from West African countries such as Mauritania and Senegal to ...

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers his speech to French ambassadors posted around the world, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025 at the Elysee Palace in Paris - Chad and Senegal have sharply criticized ...