Lusaka has been in a months-long dispute with Lungu's family over where the former president should be buried. Lungu died in South Africa last year.
Aid groups warn that the conflict has upended their ability to get food and medicine to millions of people in need around the world.
The first batch of deportees arrived in the DRC last Friday under a controversial US migration scheme to pack off undocumented foreign nationals to third countries.
Pope Leo XIV told inmates at one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious prisons that they are not alone, as he drew attention Wednesday to prison conditions, human rights abuses and injustices that campaigners have denounced for years.
Sahrawi refugees go about daily life in the Aousserd camp near Tindouf in southern Algeria as residents say decades in exile have not weakened their demand for independence in Western Sahara: "Our demands are simple -- independence, and nothing else."
South Africa’s inflation rate edged slightly higher in March but remains relatively subdued overall.
Sierra Leone is taking a new step toward unlocking its offshore energy potential with a fresh agreement involving oil giant Shell.
The Mohammed VI Tower, now the tallest building in Morocco, is reshaping the skyline of the Rabat-Salé region after its inauguration earlier in April 2026.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Seychelles President Patrick Herminie at the Kremlin on Wednesday for talks focused on bilateral ties and international issues.
Senegal’s former president Macky Sall called for peace and diplomacy on Wednesday as he auditioned to lead the United Nations.
Six men pleaded not guilty to treason and terrorism charges over a botched coup plot, Nigeria media reported Wednesday, as the first prosecutions for the alleged 2025 putsch attempt get under way.
A widening diplomatic rift is emerging in West Africa as Niger and Mali level new accusations against neighbouring states over terrorism in the Sahel.
In South Africa, the state-owned electricity company Eskom announced on Wednesday that it does not expect power outages during the winter months in the Southern Hemisphere, from April to August. This will be the first winter without power cuts since the company has been facing difficulties.
Senegal’s former president Macky Sall called for peace and diplomacy on Wednesday as he auditioned to lead the United Nations.
Ismail Omar Guelleh has won a sixth term as President of Djibouti, the country's constitutional council has confirmed. Guelleh won 97.01% of the vote, the council said on Tuesday.
Niger's military government suspended the activities of 2,900 of the 4,700 registered local and foreign non-governmental organisations and development agencies, the interior minister said.
Three years into the devastating conflict in Sudan, nearly four million displaced people have returned to their places of origin across the country, only to face “another struggle for survival”, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday.
Pope Leo XIV told inmates at one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious prisons that they are not alone, as he drew attention Wednesday to prison conditions, human rights abuses and injustices that campaigners have denounced for years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Seychelles President Patrick Herminie at the Kremlin on Wednesday for talks focused on bilateral ties and international issues.
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