Immigrants living and working in Spain without authorisation will soon be able to apply for legal residency and permission to work.

Angered by a 10 year freeze on wages, thousands of teachers have been staying away from class for over a month.

On Tuesday, a Dutch court sentenced an Eritrean man to 20 years in prison for running a human trafficking network in which migrants were tortured, and their families extorted.

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The Club des Dauphins de Ngor, just outside Dakar, is helping people with reduced mobility ease pain and improve their physical health.

Guinea’s newly elected president, former junta leader Mamady Doumbouya, has appointed a prime minister to the west African country’s government less than two weeks after being sworn in.

Wine went into hiding shortly after Uganda’s disputed presidential election on Jan. 15. An internet shutdown marred the vote, and the failure of biometric voter identification kits meant to prevent ballot stuffing.

Prosecutors allege the oil executives paid millions of dollars to Denis Sassou Nguesso and his family.

The Egyptian Parliament says it’s working on legislation to regulate children’s exposure to what it called the “digital chaos” of social media.

The US president claims Omar left Somalia in the 1990s with “nothing” and is now worth over 44 million dollars. The Minnesota representative denounced “lies and conspiracy theories.”

Aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing with Egypt on Tuesday after Israel said it had agreed to reopen the territory’s key gateway to the outside world.

Former cult leader Paul Mackenzie, already on trial for multiple counts of manslaughter, is facing new charges, Kenyan prosecutors said on Monday.

The American streamer and YouTuber IShowSpeed is in the final leg of a 28-day tour of Africa aimed at showcasing the continent’s cultural diversity, which is often overshadowed by images of poverty and violence.

At Goma’s central market, once the beating heart of the local economy, traders waited for customers who were becoming increasingly scarce due to the economic crisis that has engulfed the city since it was occupied by the M23 rebel coalition a year ago.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Monday backed a proposed fan boycott of World Cup matches in the United States because of the conduct of President Donald Trump and his administration at home and abroad.

At Monday’s briefing, United Nations Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric announced the launch of a $852 million Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan for Somalia, which he said, “is 40 percent less than last year” and “aims to support 2.4 million people.”

Sixteen officers were first arrested in October, officially on grounds of indiscipline, but security sources told AFP they were being held over a coup attempt. Shortly afterwards, President Tinubu reshuffled the top military brass, removing the then–chief of defence staff, General Christopher Musa.

Israel pledged to reopen the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip once the search for the last hostage’s remains ends. On Monday, Israeli authorities said they had recovered the body of police officer Ran Gvili.

During a visit to Rabat on Monday, Sonko described post-AFCON tensions between Senegalese and Moroccan football fans as “excesses” only caused by sporting emotions.

Sudan’s gold industry, a key source of foreign currency, is reeling under ongoing conflict, infrastructure damage, and collapsing trade ties.

The West African country is home to thousands of smallholder cocoa farmers, who are the backbone of the world’s largest producer of the fruit. But the country currently faces major difficulties in selling its cocoa, hit by a slowdown in exports and a drop in global prices.

Volunteers of the “Green Khartoum” initiative are hoping to plant 1,000 trees in the Sudanese capital, where reconstruction is underway.

A major global crackdown on human traffickers and migrant smugglers, coordinated by Interpol, has led to the arrest of more than 3,700 suspects and helped over 4,400 potential victims of trafficking worldwide, the police organization announced on Monday.

Scoring goals for a cervical cancer vaccine: this is the ambition of the Goal Getter Campaign. The initiative was first showcased in Tanzania and Eswatini earlier last year before moving to Zimbabwe in December, using soccer to build awareness and trust among girls in the HPV vaccine.

Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah announced the new 25-year agreement during the Libya ‌Energy and Economy Summit in Tripoli on Saturday.

Egypt’s Parliament is looking into ways to regulate children’s use of social media platforms to combat what lawmakers called “digital choas,” following some western countries that are considering banning young teenagers from social media.

As tensions between Cuba and the United States rise and Cubans brace for further economic difficulties, priests and priestesses of the African-Cuban root religion known as Santería held several ceremonies on Sunday and offered gifts to deities to ask for peace.

Iranian authorities unveiled a new mural in central Tehran on Sunday containing a clear warning to the United States: do not to attempt to strike our country. The move comes as rights groups say that the death toll from recent protests is close to 6,000 people.

Venezuela has had enough of US orders, the country’s interim president Delcy Rodriguez told oil workers on Sunday.

A decade ago, Michelle Francine Ngonmo, a 38-year-old Italian-Cameroonian, founded the Afrofashion Association after noticing the lack of diversity in creative industries like fashion. The association has helped thousands of people – and continues its work, like most recently on the runway in Milan.

Immediately following surprise US strikes targeting militants in Nigeria, it remained unclear who or what was actually hit as Washington and Abuja told slightly different stories.

Minnesotans expressed their grief and anger on Sunday as hundreds braved the cold to protest the state’s second fatal shooting by federal immigration agents.

A regional emergency team has arrived in Mozambique to help deal with the aftermath of severe flooding.

One year later, Gentil still keeps the images of his looted shop, filmed by passersby. Like many entrepreneurs in Goma, he chose to get back on his feet, not to give up, and to resume his activities despite an economy that remains extremely fragile.

Dozens of mourners gathered at a sports complex in the South African city of Vereeniging on Sunday to bid farewell to three schoolchildren killed in a school bus crash.

An Egyptian-Chinese archaeological mission announced in Luxor on Saturday that they have uncovered an ancient “sacred lake” at the Montu Temple precinct in the Karnak Temple Complex in the city renowned for its rich monuments in southern Egypt.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel-Aty welcomed U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau to Cairo on Sunday for talks on bolstering the strategic partnership between Egypt and the United States.

Women are the main victims of abuse in Sudan’s war, facing “the world’s worst” sexual violence and other crimes committed with impunity, a rights activist turned social affairs minister for the army-backed government says.

The wife of Ugandan opposition politician Bobi Wine speaks to journalists from her hospital bed in Kampala, describing what she says was an overnight raid on her home by armed men searching for her husband.

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt reiterated Saturday his country’s rejection of Israeli efforts to transfer Palestinians out of their territories in the Gaza Strip.