Africa

The rains have also displaced up to 600,000 people from their homes, according to the Emergency Management Agency, which warns of more flooding. read more.

Crowds of protesters tried to storm the French embassy in Ouagadougou on Saturday, after Burkina Faso’s special forces staged a second military coup in a year, and accused the former colonial power of aiding the ousted leader, Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, whose whereabouts remain unknown. read more.

The French-led overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2012 resulted not only in the collapse of Africa’s most prosperous and stable country, but sent shockwaves through the continent that destabilized neighboring countries, including the remote deserts of northern Mali, where Tuareg rebels tried to form their own independent state of Azawad. read more.

The South African foreign minister accused some western states, which she did not name, of wanting to put pressure on her country to get it to take sides in the war between Russia and Ukraine. read more.

The BRICS countries, named after their founding members, currently make up around forty percent of the world's population. The accession of two other countries - Iran and Argentina - is already known. read more.

The Spanish border security forces did not take the necessary measures to control the situation at the Melilla fence. read more.

Unrest gripped Libya a day after representatives of rival national authorities, one based in the country's east and the other in the west, failed to reach an agreement at UN-brokered talks in Geneva on a constitutional framework for national elections. read more.

Millions celebrate that Riaan Naude got shot in the head, he killed dozens of wild animals hunting, but at the end of his miserable life, the got himself hunted. read more.

At least 37 migrants were killed and hundreds more wounded when Spaniards fired on a crowd trying to cross into the North African Spanish enclave of Melilla, officials in neighboring Morocco say. read more.