Cameroon's veteran strongman Biya wins seventh presidential term
AFP via Yahoo News6 hours agoYaoundé (AFP) - One of Africa's oldest leaders Paul Biya, who has ruled Cameroon with an iron fist since 1982, won a landslide victory Monday in a controversial presidential election, ...
Crowds protest latest deadly rebel raid in DR Congo
AFP via Yahoo News1 day agoThe attack, thought to have been carried out by members of the Ugandan Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), targeted Beni, the regional army spokesman Captain Mak Hazukay told AFP.
Bangladesh arrests prominent government critic
Daily Mail3 hours ago"He has been arrested after a warrant of arrest was issued against him", a senior Dhaka Metropolitan Police officer told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. Hosein, 78, who does ...
'Game changer' tuberculosis drug cures 9 in 10
AFP via Yahoo News2 hours agoThe Belarus trial success rate -- 93 percent -- was largely replicated in bedaquiline trials in other countries in eastern Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia, according to abstracts seen by AFP ...
New drug slashes death rates among drug-resistant TB patients: scientists
AFP via Yahoo News3 hours agoA new treatment for a deadly drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis can cure more than 90 percent of sufferers, according to a landmark clinical trial whose results were revealed exclusively ...
Cartels 'will exploit 7,000-strong migrant caravan marching to the US'
Daily Mail12 hours agoThe politician, Bartolo Fuentes - a member of leftist former president Manuel Zelaya's Freedom and Refoundation Party - told AFP he only reproduced a poster on his Facebook page. The ...
Mexico allows caravan women, children in, but thousands still stranded
AFP via Yahoo News2 days agoMexico's ambassador to Guatemala Luis Manuel Lopez told AFP the women and children would be processed by immigration authorities and taken to a shelter in the city of Tapachula, 40 kilometers ...
Comoros army regains control in Anjouan after uprising: minister
AFP via Yahoo News2 days agoThe Comoros military on Saturday regained control of Mutsamudu's old city centre on the island of Anjouan, a minister told AFP, after armed rebels staged an uprising earlier this week ...
Germany Stops Exporting Arms to Saudi Arabia After Killing of Jamal Khashoggi
Time via Yahoo News11 hours ago“I agree with all those who say when it comes to our already limited arms exports [to Saudi Arabia] that they cannot take place in the current situation,” Merkel said, according to AFP ...
'At least 50' dead as train ploughs through festival crowd in India
The Telegraph via Yahoo News3 days agoAn AFP photographer at the scene said some victims had lost limbs in the accident while others suffered head wounds.
