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While the AU's endorsement of the Doha talks signals pragmatism, the message is clear: the union wants to retain ownership of the peace process.

The Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) has increased surveillance efforts to monitor the movement of banana seedlings and ensure farmers access disease-free planting materials.

The deployment of Kenyan police to Haiti is an exception because African troops are most deeply involved in peacekeeping missions across Africa and many are part of missions led by the UN, the African Union or regional blocs around the continent.

The AU itself is battling chronic funding shortages, raising questions about Africa's capacity to fund its own security challenges.

Sall, is accused of presiding over "catastrophic" mismanagement of the public purse, with the audit revealing a budget deficit for 2023 of 12.3 per cent, more than double the 4.9 per cent previously reported during his administration.

These tracks are around 140 million years old, from the very beginning of the Cretaceous period when the African and South American tectonic plates were starting to pull apart.

It is especially rewarding to see the genetic evidence aligning with the archaeological record.

The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced on Friday that Rasool was "no longer welcome," accusing him of being a "race-baiting politician" critical of President Donald Trump.

Those affected included visitors from Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, and South Sudan.

The findings come against the backdrop of concerns over the ability of current agricultural production to meet current and future food demand as the population continues to rise.

According to sources who spoke to The Eastleigh Voice, the leaders are currently being held at Luanda Airport, and their passports have been confiscated.

Beyond his core team, Mahmoud is expected to appoint advisers, senior diplomatic staff, and policy experts to bolster his administration.

She will now serve as Djibouti's Mahmoud Ali Youssouf's deputy, overseeing the commission's administration and financial management.

The PSC strongly condemned the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for attempting to establish a parallel government in Nairobi, warning that the move risks partitioning Sudan and further destabilizing the country.

Dr. Gikungu explained that strong winds carrying moisture over water bodies contribute to the rains, with natural features like hills and forests affecting their distribution.

The Nigerian government wants to rehabilitate and reintegrate bandits who have terrorized the North West zone. But will expanding Operation Safe Corridor be enough to end the killings and instability in the region?

Starlink operates in many African countries, but in addition to South Africa, it has faced obstacles in places like Cameroon and Namibia due to licensing disputes.

The move is in response to Africa's disproportionate burden of food-borne illnesses, which affects 91 million people and results in 137,000 deaths annually, one-third of the global mortality due to food-borne diseases, the statement quoted the World Health Organization as saying.

At the beginning of February, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which in 2024 committed 115 million dollars in aid to Cote d'Ivoire, where HIV/AIDS care has been free since 2008.

Zenaida Machado, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, said Human Rights Watch had confirmed at least 10 people had been injured by police on Wednesday.

Trump mentioned Lesotho in his address to US Congress on Tuesday evening while listing some of the foreign spending he had cut as "appalling waste".

The opposition leaders arrested in the case accuse Saied of staging a coup in 2021 and say the case is fabricated.

The agency would consolidate its eastern and southern African operations and run both from Nairobi.

Embalo, after a trip to Russia, Azerbaijan and Hungary, told reporters at the airport: "I will be a candidate in my own succession."

The ECOWAS team was sent to Guinea-Bissau last month to facilitate a "political consensus" on the timing of upcoming elections.

East and central Africa, where most elephants once resided, underwent serious losses over this period due to ivory poaching.

A dispute over when Embalo's presidential term should end has heightened tensions that risk unrest in a nation with a history of military coups.

Dignitaries including South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, former President Thabo Mbeki and ex-Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete attended the funeral of Nujoma, who rose from herding cattle as a boy to lead the sparsely-populated, mostly desert southern African country on March 21, 1990.

Youssouf is a seasoned diplomat from Djibouti. He is the longest-serving minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation of his country (2005–2025) and has also served as chair of the Council of Ministers of the Arab League (2007, 2017) and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (2012).

Morocco's cattle and sheep herds have decreased by 38% in 2025 since the last census nine years ago due to consecutive droughts, according to official figures.