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Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will leave the country this month after a decades-long military presence, becoming the latest African nation to downscale military ties with its former colonizer. In an end-of-year address to the nation on Tuesday, President Alassane Ouattara said the...

Since Israel’s devastating assault on the besieged Palestinian territory, the population of Gaza has fallen 6 percent according to The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). With the conflict beginning nearly 15 months ago, about 100,000 Palestinians have left the enclave while more than...

Ecuador’s attorney general has confirmed that charred remains found last week in the city of Taura are the bodies of four minors who disappeared on December 8. The attorney general’s office announced the findings on Tuesday after the boys’ disappearance spurred nationwide outrage, as well as...

Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met senior Christian clerics on Tuesday, amid calls for the head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to guarantee minority rights after seizing power earlier this month. “The leader of the new Syrian administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa, meets a delegation from the...

A South Korean court has issued an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol over his short-lived declaration of martial law in a historic first. Seoul Western District Court on Tuesday approved the warrant following a request by the Joint Investigation Headquarters, which is...

A South Korean court has issued an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol over his short-lived declaration of martial law in a historic first. Seoul Western District Court on Tuesday approved the warrant following a request by the Joint Investigation Headquarters, which is...

Thousands of people have rallied in Bangladesh’s capital to demand the prosecution of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and those responsible for hundreds of deaths in a mass uprising against her government in July. The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement organized what it called the March for...

Police in Kenya’s capital Nairobi have fired tear gas to disperse protesters demonstrating against what they say is a wave of unexplained abductions of government critics. Dozens of Kenyans have been abducted in recent months, according to human rights groups, who blame the extrajudicial arrests on...

The Taliban government says it will close all national and foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) employing women in Afghanistan. In a letter published on X on Sunday night, the country’s Ministry of Economy warned that failure to comply with the latest order would lead to NGOs losing their...

Polls have closed in Chad’s first parliamentary election in 13 years, which the government has presented as a key step towards ending a military rule. Provisional results are expected by January 15 and final results by January 31 in the large, mainly desert Central African nation of 18 million...