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The 81-year-old, head of the Islamist Ennahda party, was the speaker of the elected parliament, which was shut down in 2021 by President Kais Saied when he seized all powers.

Apr 20, 2023

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg visited Kyiv on Thursday for the first time since Russia's full-scale invasion, showing the military alliance's support for Ukraine as it prepares to launch a counteroffensive.

Apr 20, 2023

Major U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase Global Inc has said it has secured a licence to operate in Bermuda, as part of a wider push to expand globally.

Apr 20, 2023

During an interrogation by Russian intelligence officers at a police station in Ukraine's Balakliia town in June, local businessman Ruslan Volobuyev was beaten by one of the men, he said.

Apr 20, 2023

President Yoweri Museveni must either sign, veto or send back the bill to parliament this week. The bill has been denounced by pressure groups and Western governments which say it will undermine human rights.

Apr 20, 2023

A battle that is hammering Khartoum and dragging Sudan to the brink of civil war pits the army chief and his regular forces against the streetwise fighters loyal to a former warlord.

Apr 20, 2023

Zambia's external debt amounted to $18.6 billion by end-2022, according to government data, with China being its biggest bilateral creditor.

Apr 20, 2023

The crypto sector has been rocked by the failure of crypto exchange FTX and other collapses, sending benchmark bitcoin prices tumbling, though it has begun to recover.

Apr 20, 2023

Bondaruk is already struggling to find markets for the wheat, rapeseed, oilseed, corn and sugarbeet produced on his 10-hectare farm in western Ukraine's agricultural belt.

Apr 20, 2023

In 52 of the 55 countries surveyed, the public perception of vaccines for children declined between 2019 and 2021, the UN agency said.

Apr 20, 2023

Britain is anticipating that 56,000 migrants will cross the Channel in small boats to its shores this year, court documents show, meaning it would be need to house as many as 140,000 asylum seekers.

Apr 19, 2023

In an apparent peace gesture, Chad's interim president Mahamat Idriss Deby in March pardoned 380 jailed members of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), a rebel group accused of killing his father - longtime ruler Idriss Deby - in 2021.

Apr 19, 2023

"I want to be very clear: All parties must ensure unrestricted and safe access to health facilities for those injured and everyone in need of medical care," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a media briefing.

Apr 19, 2023

Tae Johnson, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said officials had discussed jailing families as an option for dealing with increased illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Apr 19, 2023

Lavrov is due to chair two U.N. Security Council meetings as Russia holds the presidency of the 15-member body for April. Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said Lavrov and most of his delegation had received U.S. visas to travel to New York.

Apr 19, 2023

"It's very dangerous because he lives among us," said Motasim, a resident of Khartoum's Al-Riyadh district, which lies near the airport where smoke now billows into the sky.

Apr 19, 2023

While some major economies such as the European Union have drafted bespoke crypto rules, the sector is still mostly unregulated in the United States.

Apr 18, 2023

Fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed at least 185 people and injured more than 1,800, prompting calls by the international community for the fighting to stop.

Apr 18, 2023

A weak kwacha has stopped inflation falling in recent months, which officials and economists blame in part on Zambia's struggles to complete a debt restructuring since it defaulted on its debts in 2020, as well as on disappointing copper output.

Apr 18, 2023

For Kenya's lesbians and gays, a supreme court ruling allowing the rights body that represents their interests to register as a non-governmental organisation has turned out to be a mixed blessing.

Apr 18, 2023

The strike is likely to add to problems in a sector that regularly faces jet fuel shortages, which often ground local flights and where international carriers struggle to repatriate revenue from ticket sales due to dollar shortages.

Apr 18, 2023

The proposed class action in Miami alleges that FTX yield-bearing accounts were unregistered securities that were unlawfully sold in the United States, which required the promoters to disclose the compensation they received.

Apr 18, 2023

The prosecutor will be based in The Hague at Eurojust, the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, Garland said, following a meeting with Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin.

Apr 18, 2023

"The remarkable recovery of the Chinese economy has supported the recent rebound in oil prices," CMC Markets analyst Leon Li said.

Apr 18, 2023

"We will have another call to continuing dialogue and working hand-in-hand to forge a brighter future for our nations," Hemedti said in a post on Twitter.

Apr 18, 2023

Africa is struggling with the triple shock of rising debt burdens, an ongoing food crisis and climate change fallout and needs more help from international institutions and wealthy nations to cope, African finance ministers said on Saturday.

Apr 17, 2023

Zambia last week gave its bondholders a "concrete proposal" for the restructuring of some $3 billion in eurobonds, the ministry of finance and national planning said on Friday.

Apr 17, 2023

Ukrainian officials say Russia has been drawing down troops from other areas on the front for a major push on Bakhmut.

Apr 14, 2023

OPEC on Thursday flagged downside risks to summer oil demand as part of the backdrop for the 1.16 million barrels per day (bpd) cut.

Apr 14, 2023