Algerian firefighters were struggling yesterday to put out 19 blazes in the north of the country, where 90 people were killed in wildfires this week.

Libyan authorities have shut water supplies to swathes of the country after gunmen demanding the release of a jailed Gaddafi-era official threatened to sabotage the water network.

Ivory Coast’s first recorded case of deadly Ebola disease in nearly three decades is of “immense concern”, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Firefighters in northern Morocco are battling to put out two forest blazes, a forestries official said yesterday as the North African kingdom swelters in a heatwave.

The death toll in Haiti’s powerful earthquake jumped to over 700 yesterday as crews desperately dug through collapsed buildings for survivors in the Caribbean nation still reeling from its president’s assassination.

Malaysia’s embattled leader will offer his resignation to the king today, a minister said, potentially spelling an end to his 17-month-old government and plunging the country into fresh turmoil.  

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday announced snap elections for September 20 to seek a new mandate to steer the nation’s pandemic exit, much to the dismay of his rival parties.

Attackers killed 22 commuters on a road near the capital of Nigeria's Plateau state, a morgue attendant told Reuters, in the latest outbreak of violence across Africa's most populous nation in which scores of civilians have been killed this year.

blistering heatwave for dozens of blazes that have raged across the country’s north since Monday, but experts have also criticised authorities for failing to prepare for the annual phenomenon.

A major earthquake killed at least 29 people in southwestern Haiti yesterday, reducing churches, hotels and homes to rubble in the latest tragedy to hit the impoverished Caribbean nation already mired in humanitarian and political crises. 

Canada plans to resettle more than 20,000 vulnerable Afghans including women leaders, human rights workers and reporters to protect them from Taliban reprisals, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said on Friday.

Firefighters, troops and civilian volunteers battled blazes in forests across northern Algeria yesterday as the country reeled at a death toll of at least 65 people in the latest wildfires to hit the Mediterranean.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed yesterday issued a call for all eligible civilians to join the armed forces as fighting rages in multiple regions of Africa’s second most populous nation.

A Brazilian indigenous organization asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) Monday to investigate President Jair Bolsonaro for “genocide” and “ecocide,” accusing him of persecuting native peoples and destroying their homelands.

Suspected jihadists massacred more than 40 civilians in northern Mali and killed 12 troops in an ambush in neighbouring Burkina Faso, officials said yesterday, highlighting the security crisis gripping the two fragile states.

At least 12 soldiers were killed in an attack in northwestern Burkina Faso on Sunday and seven others are missing, three security sources said.

At least 30 South Sudanese soldiers were killed and 13 injured in clashes between forces loyal to Vice President Riek Machar and a splinter group, Machar’s party spokesman said in a statement on Saturday.

About 40 migrants were feared dead after a boat carrying about 50 people travelling from Western Sahara to Spain's Canary Islands capsized, a Spanish non-governmental organisation, said on Friday.

South Africa's jailed former president, Jacob Zuma, was admitted to hospital for medical observation on Friday, the government's Correctional Services department said.

A Supreme Court justice ruled Wednesday President Jair Bolsonaro should be investigated for unproven claims Brazil’s voting system is riddled with fraud, adding the far-right leader to an ongoing probe on the spread of fake news by his government.