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Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup in Gabon in August 2023, won the presidential election with 90.35% of votes cast, according to provisional results, the Central African country's interior minister said. The result cements Nguema's grip on power 19 months after the coup ended more than half a...

Tanzania’s electoral commission has barred the main opposition party, Chadema, from contesting presidential and parliamentary elections due to take place later this year. The Independent National Elections Commission (INEC) announced the decision on Saturday, stating that the party failed to sign a...

A court in Tanzania has charged opposition party leader Tundu Lissu with treason after his arrest at a public rally in which he called for electoral reforms. The charges against the chairman of the Chadema party will bring new scrutiny to President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s bid for re-election in...

Rebels in Indonesia's Papua region said they have killed more than 17 people since the weekend, claiming that they were soldiers disguised as gold miners, and police said the insurgents were holding two hostages. A low-level but increasingly deadly battle for independence has simmered between...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said that his country will offer temporary shelter to Palestinian medical evacuees and children orphaned by the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. “We are ready to evacuate those who are injured or traumatized, and orphans, if they want to be evacuated to Indonesia, and...

At least 35 people have been killed and dozens of others were wounded in an Israeli attack on a residential block in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighborhood, medical sources told Al Jazeera. The Gaza Health Ministry said it expected the death toll from an attack in northern Gaza to rise, as civil defense...

South Korea will hold a snap presidential election June 3 to choose Yoon Suk Yeol’s successor after the conservative was ousted over his imposition of martial law late last year. The announcement from acting President Han Duck-soo came four days after the Constitutional Court unanimously removed...

The rise of right-wing populism in Europe and elsewhere should not prevent Africa from bringing reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism to the table, the head of the African Union's diaspora division said. "There is no better time as this to discuss the issue of reparations as Africans...

Colombia remains open to dialogue with National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels despite their recent offensive in the country's east, peace commissioner Otty Patino said, as the Colombian government moves ahead with a separate process with some 300 fighters who split from the group. The government of...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has spoken out about the dire humanitarian situation unfolding in the besieged Gaza Strip, saying “civilians are in an endless death loop” amid renewed Israeli bombardments and a ban on the entry of much-needed aid. Speaking to reporters, Guterres...