Ethiopia’s Tigray forces are joining with other armed and opposition groups in an alliance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to seek a political transition after a year of devastating war, organizers say.The signing in Washington on Friday includes the…

Spain faces a fresh energy crisis after Algeria shut off supplies of natural gas through one of the two pipelines linking Spain with the North African state.Like many other European countries, Spain has been hit hard by soaring electricity prices in re…

ROME — The G-20 Summit hosted by Italy kicked off Saturday in Rome, where leaders from the world’s major economies discussed issues of mutual concern, including pandemic recovery and climate change.The red carpet was rolled out at “La Nuvola,” Rome’s c…

A former al-Shabab commander who is under house arrest in Somalia says he is being held to prevent him from seeking elected office.Mukhtar Robow Ali, popularly known as Abu Mansour, was the deputy leader of al-Shabab and had been sought by the United S…

CAIRO — A U.S. envoy underlined Washington’s support for a democratic transition to civilian rule in Sudan on Saturday during talks with the head of its ruling council and the prime minister, the U.S. embassy in Khartoum said.It tweeted that Jeffrey Fe…

A prominent professor studying communication in Namibia says member countries in the 16-nation Southern African Development Community, or SADC, have enacted and drafted cybersecurity laws which infringe on citizens’ freedom of expression. Zimbabwe is o…

WASHINGTON — Rwandan dissidents have died under mysterious circumstances inside and outside the country with alarming frequency in recent years.On September 14, Revocat Karemangingo, an ex-Army officer, was gunned down while driving in Mozambique. Sinc…

Former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo launched a new political party Saturday, formally breaking ties with those who ran his previous party while he spent years facing war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court.Gbagbo, 76, who returned ho…