Some 52 million people in West and Central Africa will face food insecurity in the lean season due to conflict, extreme weather, and economic decline, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
U.S. President Joe Biden said that he intends to end the participation of Gabon, Niger, Uganda and the Central African Republic in the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade program.
A day before mercenary boss Prigozhin's plane crash, a Russian official visited Libya to reassure allies that fighters from the Wagner Group would remain in the country -but under Moscow's control.
Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadera said on Friday his country's relations with Russia had helped it to save its democracy and avoid a civil war.
Veteran Cameroonian opposition leader John Fru Ndi, who fought to topple long-standing president Paul Biya at the ballot box for decades, has died aged 81, his party said.