Reuters

In March 2022, the United States imposed sanctions on the reserve police force, accusing it of using excessive force against protesters who were demonstrating against a 2021 military coup.

Russian forces, which have struggled for months to capture Bakhmut, are slowly taking over more and more of the city.

His exit comes at a time of heightened political scrutiny of the British public broadcaster.

The damage is worst in areas Russia controlled before fleeing last September, when Ukraine's military launched a lightning counteroffensive in the east.

Authorities evacuated more than 100 people who had been "holed up" in Ezekiel Odero's New Life Prayer Centre and Church in the small southeastern town of Mavueni, the minister Kithure Kindiki said on Twitter.

Hundreds have died and tens of thousands fled for their lives in two weeks of conflict between the army and rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal said the crypto exchange would like to list securities in the future but would not feel comfortable given the regulatory uncertainty, in a video response to the SEC made public on Thursday.

The leaders of France, Spain, Barbados and Sierra Leone were among those to back a new coalition on Thursday aiming to accelerate the flow of climate-related finance to the world's poorest countries.

Most Hema locals had left by March 22, when CODECO fighters took up positions on the hillside by Drodro in broad daylight, the doctor recalled on April 18.

Former workers at what was then known as the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) began commemorative events, holding an overnight vigil in the northern town of Slavuytch to remember victims of the world's worst nuclear accident on April 26, 1986.

Red Cross staff in Malindi told Reuters exhumations had been suspended on Wednesday so investigators could focus on finding survivors scattered in makeshift camps spread around the forest.

Sudan's capital resounded with gunfire and explosions on the western outskirts on Wednesday, eroding a truce amid collapsing basic services, dwindling food supplies and the opening of a prison that let out allies of a jailed former autocrat.

The United Nations has moved hundreds of staff and family members to Port Sudan from Khartoum.

About 37 million of the total are refugees, a number that has tripled over the last decade.

The Kenyan Red Cross said more than 200 people had been reported as missing to a tracing and counselling desk it has set up at a local hospital.

At least 459 people have been killed since the power struggle erupted between the Sudanese army and a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday, but said no one is talking about peace in what he called an "insane war."

"We are living in a terrible situation. We need toilets ... We need water," says Cele, a 40-year-old former retail worker, who adds that residents have no sanitation and must use buckets as toilets.

Compensating farmers is central to a government strategy under discussion with key creditor, the African Development Bank (AfDB), to clear historic arrears of some $17 billion.

The machine mania sweeping the tech world amid the launches of bots like ChatGPT and Bard has reached the cryptoverse, with interest in tokens tied to AI blockchain projects surging.

Only two days earlier, South Africa's parliament announced that it would abandon a seven-year-long legislative process to pull South Africa out of the ICC's Rome Statute.

Lavrov chaired the council meeting because Russia holds the council's monthly rotating presidency for April.

Chastain chose which NFTs to feature, and then profited illegally by selling his tokens shortly thereafter, they said.

In Monday's note, Standard Chartered said that bitcoin has benefited from its status as a "branded safe haven, a perceived relative store of value and a means of remittance."

Ukrainian activist Oleksandra Romantsova this week suggested to South African officials that it would be better for Russian President Vladimir Putin to dial in to this year's BRICS summit in South Africa rather than attend in person.

South Africa has one of the world's highest murder rates, with about 20,000 murders recorded every year out of a population of 60 million.

Danube River ports are critical to Ukrainian exports of agricultural products as a wartime deal guaranteeing safe grain shipments via the Black Sea hangs in the balance, a senior Ukrainian official said on Friday.

Albaih, 42, known in the Middle East for cartoons on the Arab Spring, government misrule and wars in Syria and Yemen, drew attention beyond the region in 2016.

African countries are lining up to approve a new vaccine for malaria, with 20 million doses available for them to buy this year, the shot's manufacturer told Reuters.