Libya’s presidential council suspended Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush from her duties Saturday days before an international conference is to make a new push to restore stability to the war-battered nation.

Sudanese security forces yesterday fired tear gas at an anti-coup rally by teachers at the start of a two-day civil disobedience call against last month’s military takeover.

At least 99 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the capital of Sierra Leone late on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, local authorities said.

Ninety-one people were killed and over 100 wounded in the capital of Sierra Leone on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, the central morgue and local authorities said.

Police smashed their way into a suburban house on Wednesday and rescued a 4-year-old girl whose disappearance from her family’s camping tent on Australia’s remote west coast more than two weeks ago both horrified and captivated the nation.

At least six people have died in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos after the collapse of a high-rise building that was under construction, the state emergency services chief said on Tuesday.

South Africans started voting yesterday in municipal elections, with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) facing discontent over poor services and stark inequality 27 years after ending white minority rule. 

Sudanese security forces yesterday killed two protesters during mass anti-coup rallies, medics said, despite warnings from global powers who had urged restraint by the military.

Sudan’s ruling military has sacked six ambassadors and security forces have tightened their crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, even as international pressure against this week’s coup grows.

Australia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) agreed at a summit yesterday to establish a “comprehensive strategic

Sudanese security forces launched sweeping arrests of anti-coup protesters yesterday, tightening the regime’s grip while the international community ramped up punitive measures.

Indigenous residents of low-lying islands off northern Australia filed a landmark lawsuit yesterday aimed at forcing the government

Coal-rich Australia unveiled a much-delayed 2050 net zero emissions target yesterday, in a plan that pointedly dodged thorny details or near-term goals ahead of a landmark UN climate summit.

Roads were blocked, shops were shut, phones were down and mosque loudspeakers blared calls for a general strike in Sudan on Tuesday, a day after the army seized power in a coup.

Soldiers arrested most of the members of Sudan’s cabinet yesterday and the military chief dissolved the transitional government, while opponents of the takeover took to the streets where gunfire and injuries were reported.

Australia yesterday unveiled plans to make social media companies obtain parental consent for users under the age of 16, with multimillion dollar fines for failing to comply.

Sudan’s military seized power Monday, dissolving the transitional government hours after troops arrested the prime minister. Thousands of people flooded into the streets to protest the coup that threatens the country’s shaky progress toward democracy.

Soldiers arrested most of the members of Sudan's cabinet and a large number of pro-government party leaders on Monday in an apparent military coup, three political sources said, throwing a fragile transition towards democracy into disarray.

Ethiopia’s military launched an air strike on a rebel-held facility in Tigray’s west yesterday, a government official said, the seventh aerial bombardment in the war-hit region in a week.

At least 30 people died and over 100 were injured in intensified fighting between the Somali National Army and its former ally Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama'a (ASWJ) in the Somali state of Galmudug over the weekend, residents and hospital officials said.