Guterres will travel to Addis Ababa next week for the AU Peace and Security Council Summit, where discussions on restoring stability in the Great Lakes region are expected to take center stage.

Zuma-Sambudla has denied the charges, calling them politically motivated and an attempt by the current government to settle scores with her father.

A judge in Tunisia handed down lengthy sentences to prominent politicians and at least one leading journalist in a move criticized by a media union and leading opposition parties as the latest move targeting critics of President Kais Saied.

At least 17 children were killed in a fire that broke out in an Islamic school in northwestern Nigeria, the country’s emergency response agency said, as authorities launched an investigation into the cause on Thursday.

Two years after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey, survivors remember the tragedy that claimed over 53,000 lives in Turkey and 6,000 in Syria.

Watch UFC 312 press conference video to hear from top UFC stars at Saturday’s event.

MMA Fighting’s Jed Meshew is joined by Morning Kombat’s Long Island Luke to break down UFC 312 and the two title fights this Saturday in Australia.

Saturday’s UFC 312 fight card is headlined by a middleweight championship rematch between Dricus du Plessis and Sean Strickland.

Dricus du Plessis, Zhang Weili, Tatiana Suarez, and Jimmy Crute delivered crowd-pleasing performances for fan’s at Wednesday’s UFC 312 open workouts.

Elizeu Zaleski and Chidi Njokuani have agreed to collide when the promotion returns to the UFC APEX in March.

Speaking from Goma, the U.N's deputy head of its mission there said the situation remains highly volatile, with a persistent risk of escalation

Ugandan LGBTQ+ rights activist Pius Kennedy is one of many humanitarian workers across the world who is effectively out of a job since U.S. President Donald Trump shut down the government's main agency for delivering humanitarian aid to other countries.

Osama Elmasry Njeem, who was wanted by the ICC for alleged war crimes, was recently freed by Rome. The move prompted outrage among opposition parties, but now the government is defending its decision, stating there were mistakes in the ICC arrest warrant.

South Africa civil rights organisation AfriForum says it is going to write an official letter to the United States government requesting that President Donald Trump’s not punish South Africans, but focus on the politicians responsible.

Trump’s suggestion came at a White House news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who smiled several times as the president detailed a plan to build new settlements for Palestinians outside the Gaza Strip, and for the U.S. to take "ownership" in redeveloping the territory.