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Three US citizens sentenced to death in Congo over role in failed coup
Armed men briefly occupied an office of the presidency in capital Kinshasa on May 19 before their leader, U.S.-based Congolese politician Christian Malanga, was killed by security forces.
Kendrick Lamar to headline Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans
The 37-year-old Lamar from Compton, the heart of the Los Angeles rap scene, has 17 Grammy wins and performed during the Super Bowl halftime show in 2022.
Pope Francis delivers medical supplies in visit to remote jungle town
Traveling 1,000 kilometers in a C-130 cargo aircraft provided by the Royal Australian Air Force, Francis arrived with a small entourage in Vanimo, a township of some 12,000 people in the northwestern corner of country's main island, with no running water and scarce electricity....
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine shot in leg, his party says
Wine, a pop star turned politician whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, finished runner-up in the 2021 presidential election behind Museveni, who has ruled the East African country for nearly four decades.
Ethiopian Airlines halts Eritrea flights after bank account frozen
The carrier's CEO Mesfin Tasew told a news conference that the Eritrean Civil Aviation Authority had blocked money transfers from Ethiopian Airlines' bank account in the Eritrean capital city Asmara.Eritrea had previously said it would suspend all Ethiopian Airlines flights at the end of t...
China to pitch green tech exports to African leaders as Western curbs loom
They will also seek assurances on the progress of incomplete Chinese-funded infrastructure projects, such as a railway designed to link the greater East African region.
Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours
The new rule, which came into force on Monday, means employees, in most cases, cannot be punished for refusing to read or respond to contacts from their employers outside work hours.
Kenya aviation workers' union postpones planned strike
The union, which represents airport workers, opposes the proposed agreement announced last month with India's Adani Airport Holdings which it says will cause job losses and bring in non-Kenyan workers.
Brazilian plane carrying 62 people crashes, all passengers presumed dead
Video shared on social media showed what appeared to be the plane plunging down behind a cluster of trees, followed by a large plume of black smoke.Airline Voepass said the plane, which had taken off from Cascavel, in the state of Parana, bound for Sao Paulo's main international airport, crashed in...