Madagascar's president on Wednesday filed a petition to the country's paramount court over its bid to defuse a mounting political crisis. President Hery Rajaonarimampianina faces a looming deadline set by the High Constitutional Court to name a consensus prime minister to head a government of national unity. The Indian Ocean island nation i ...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres vowed Wednesday to pursue support for an anti-terror force gathering five Sahel nations, despite a US rebuff for UN funding. Guterres visited the headquarters of the so-called G5 Sahel on the second and final day of a trip to Mali, in the heart of the jihadist insurgency in the Sahel. After pr ...

Security forces cleared more than 1,000 people from a sprawling migrant camp in the French capital on Wednesday, the latest in a series of episodes that have thrust the issue of illegal immigration back into the spotlight. About 1,700 people, mainly from Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea, were living in the Millenaire , or Millennium, camp underneath ...