By AFP/Boureima HAMALess than a third of Niger's vast territory has internet access, so the west African country is betting on satellite broadband to bridge the digital divide in remote rural areas.The patchy coverage is mostly down to a lack of inve...

By AFPEcuador's president admitted Tuesday that cartels and gangs move $30 billion worth of drugs, arms and other illicit goods through his country a year -- about a quarter of the country's GDP.In a bid to underscore the severity of the once peacefu...

By AFP/Benjamin LEGENDREThe world's biggest nature conservation conference resumes in Rome next week for an urgent attempt at overcoming a deadlock between northern and southern countries over funding for nature protection.Countries meeting at the UN...

By AFPA French court on Thursday postponed a much-awaited decision on freeing pro-Palestinian Lebanese resistance fighter Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed 40 years ago for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats.The Paris appeals court, which had...

By AFP/Shahzad ABDULThe question of what really happened on February 21, 1965 when Malcolm X, an icon of the civil rights movement, was struck down in a hail of bullets in New York has haunted Americans for decades.Sixty years after the brutal slayin...

By AFPWhen healthcare workers in central Mali travel to vaccinate children against measles, they have to negotiate with the jihadists who control some villages threatened by the epidemic."At first, they categorically refused. They see vaccines as car...

By AFPThey see themselves as the "bold generation" and the "conscious youth" of the African continent.AFP met six African students from Generation Z who, from Dakar to Nairobi, and Johannesburg to Abidjan, displayed a realistic optimism and a desire...

By AFPEight civilians including three children were killed on Thursday when unexploded munitions ignited at a house in northwestern Syria, a war monitor and the civil defence said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the deadly blast a da...

By AFP/Michael Sarpong MfumGhanaian authorities and local organisations are upping their efforts to combat the poaching of pangolins, an endangered mammal whose meat and scales are among the most trafficked internationally.An estimated one million of...

By AFP/Parvaiz BUKHARIFarmers in Indian-administered Kashmir say a major government infrastructure drive is taking their deeply cherished land, fearing it spearheads a push to "Hinduise" the disputed Muslim-majority territory.Musadiq Hussain said tha...

By AFP/Tomohiro OSAKIAs peckish deer chase delighted tourists in Japan's temple-dotted Nara Park, a quiet but dedicated team of litter-pickers patrols the stone paths, collecting plastic waste that threatens the animals' health.The ancient city of Na...

By AFPElon Musk's artificial intelligence company unveiled on Monday the latest version of its chatbot, Grok 3, which the billionaire hopes will find traction in a highly competitive sector contested by the likes of ChatGPT and China's DeepSeek.The l...