The Vatican announced Friday that doctors had ordered Francis to stay home and continue treatment on his right knee, which he has said is affected by a torn ligament.
But so far, the monarch has not apologized for decades of brutal Belgian rule during which up to 10 million Congolese people died.
The choice of a language that had been imposed by the apartheid government and is not even spoken by many South Africans today has set off complaints.
Atul and Rajesh Gupta had fled South Africa four years ago amid intense law enforcement scrutiny and public outrage over allegations that they facilitated the gutting of state resources.
American diplomats have alerted 14 countries, most in Africa, that Russian ships filled with stolen Ukrainian grain could be headed their way, posing a dilemma to countries facing dire food shortages.
Gunmen fired on Catholics celebrating Mass in a usually peaceful part of the country. There was no claim of responsibility and the motive was unclear.
Backed by the Kremlin, the shadowy network known as the Wagner Group is getting rich in Sudan while helping the military to crush a democracy movement.
Evolutionary theories said giraffes developed their height to get to better eats, but ancestors may have gained the advantage through head-butting battles.
A study by the World Health Organization says that more than half the region’s population now has some level of immunity, mainly from unreported past infections.
Researchers say the study provides yet more evidence of the capacity of the virus capacity to evolve and dodge immunity.
The art world has descended on the Senegalese capital for its first pandemic-era biennale, the biggest art event in West Africa, where the greatest creations on view are often found just by strolling the streets.
Best known for its mercenaries, the Wagner Group also mines diamonds, spreads disinformation and props up autocrats in an effort to grow Russia’s footprint.
Civilian deaths have spiked in Mali since Russian mercenaries of the Wagner Group began operating alongside the military. In late March, hundreds were executed in the village of Moura.
Joy over the births turned to shock and grief after a blaze swept through a neonatal ward at a hospital in Senegal. “There’s nothing we can do but suffer,” said a man who lost his grandson.
President Macky Sall said the blaze broke out in a neonatal unit, but gave no further details.
Victims of Yahya Jammeh, who ruled the West African country for 22 years, welcomed the announcement but said exactly how he will be brought to justice is not clear.
The vessel carried about 100 people and had left from a Libyan port city.
U.S. prosecutors said the settlement followed “a multiyear scheme to manipulate benchmarks used to set prices for oil at two of our country’s busiest ports.”
Dismayed that victims of the incessant violence in Somalia’s capital were being rolled to hospitals on wooden carts and in wheelbarrows, a dentist decided to do something about it.
Dismayed that victims of the incessant violence in Somalia’s capital were being rolled to hospitals on wooden carts and in wheelbarrows, a dentist decided to do something about it.
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