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Congolese-American basketball great Dikembe Mutombo, renowned as one of the best defensive players in NBA history, has died aged 58, the league announced on Monday.

A North Carolina woman who went hiking in South Africa was found dead on Sunday after going missing the day before, local officials said.

Morocco arrested 152 people on charges of using social media to incite mass illegal immigration to Ceuta, a Spanish territory.

An ancient sword that may have belonged to the army of the Egyptian pharaoh whom Moses liberated the Israelites from in the Old Testament was unearthed by archaeologists, officials say.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) handed out 37 death sentences in connection to the May coup attempt.

The Center for Information Resilience (CIR), a non-profit human rights group, and the UK Guardian on Wednesday accused fighters from Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of gleefully posting images of themselves committing war crimes, including the burning of civilian homes and the torture of prisoners.

Severe flooding in northeastern Nigeria, which is plagued by constant attacks from the jihadis of Boko Haram, has killed at least 30 people.

Algerian election officials on Sunday declared incumbent President Abulmadjid Tebboune the winner of a dubious election with 95 percent of the vote.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping promised more than $50 billion in financing would be available for African nations over the next three years.

A September report from Open Doors International details the dire situation faced by Christians hunted to the verge of extinction in Nigeria.

A jailbreak attempt at the overcrowded Makala Central Prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, turned into a bloodbath on Monday.

A Ugandan Olympic marathon runner who was living in Kenya was attacked and set on fire by her boyfriend on Sunday, police say.

Pope Francis has condemned the Islamist massacre of hundreds of civilians in the African nation of Burkina Faso, calling the attack “heinous.”

Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Burkina Faso, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), claimed on Thursday it was targeting militias allied with the ruling junta, not civilians, when it launched an attack that killed almost 300 people last weekend.

The feud between Libya’s two governments for control of its central bank intensified on Wednesday as more oil fields shut down and the eastern government demanded the return of ousted bank governor Sadiq al-Kabir.

Prosecutors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo seek the death penalty for 50 alleged coup plotters, including three Americans.

The United Nations World Food Program is investigating two of its top officials in hunger-plagued Sudan for fraud.

Nigerian Shiite militants with close ties to the government of Iran allegedly killed at least two police officers in Abuja.

Nigeria accused a Chinese company of using “unorthodox means” and “subterfuge” to seize Nigerian government property abroad.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday took the long-discussed step of declaring a global health emergency over the monkeypox or “mpox” outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has begun spreading into neighboring African nations.

Sweden announces first confirmed case of a more severe “Mpox” strain, the virus formerly known as Monkeypox, diagnosed outside of Africa.

A leading South African bishop has warned of a mounting presence and increased financial activity of individuals linked to the Islamic State.

U.N. experts warn the Islamic State and its affiliates are gaining power in West Africa and the Sahel region.

The Chinese Communist Party is building Marxist “leadership” schools in Africa to train the next generation of dictators and their henchmen.

The United States on Monday formally handed its last military base in Niger over to the ruling military junta, completing a pullout ordered by Niger’s rulers in March.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus may declare an international health emergency for monkeypox.

Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif, who has been at the center of controversy after the International Boxing Association (IBA) chief claimed Khelif had male chromosomes, refused to answer any questions on Sunday about biological sex or fairness concerns at the Paris Games.

Controversial Algerian Olympics boxer Imane Khelif defied the detractors and declared, “I am a woman!” after defeating Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamoni earlier this week.

Dozens of mercenaries from Russia’s notorious Wagner Group were reportedly killed in two separate ambushes in Mali over the weekend.

Ugandan police arrested at least 42 young protesters and charged them with disorderly conduct on Tuesday after they gathered outside the parliament building in Kampala to demonstrate against government corruption.

Soccer fans are once again causing major problems, this time for the 2024 Olympics as a game between Morocco and Argintina was suspended.

Kenyan police banned protests in Nairobi after demonstrations against the government of President William Ruto turned violent.

Libya reportedly arrested a director of the local Ghadames Airlines, which stands accused of flying U.S.-bound migrants to Nicaragua.

South Africa’s business community is reacting with alarm to a vote last week in the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a bill requiring the government to review ties with the African nation due to its anti-Western foreign policies.

The Biden Department of State has released its annual report on the U.S. government’s international efforts to impose its LGBTQI+ agenda on the world.

A militant group known as the Cooperative for the Development of the Congo (CODECO) attacked a gold mine linked to China on Wednesday.