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The African region has seen the steepest decline in global tuberculosis (TB) deaths since 2015, with a 42% reduction in deaths and a 24% drop in cases by 2023, driven by improved detection and treatment efforts, according to the WHO Global TB Report

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has arrived at prison after a Turkish court formally placed him under arrest pending trial on corruption charges, days after his detention triggered mass protests across the country. Imamoglu was taken to Marmara Prison on Sunday near Istanbul’s Silivri

Some 44 civilians were killed in an attack in southwest Niger, the country’s authorities said Friday, blaming it on terrorists belonging to Daesh in the Greater Sahara group. The victims were killed in a “savage” attack on a mosque in the

In a stunning blow to cease-fire hopes, the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized the mineral-rich town of Walikale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late Wednesday, marking their deepest incursion yet into the country’s heartland, local sources revealed Thursday. The

The leaders of Congo and neighboring Rwanda held their first direct talks in Qatar on Tuesday since Rwanda-backed M23 revels seized two major cities in mineral-rich eastern Congo earlier this year. The meeting between Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwanda’s President