Officials in Ghana said Thursday the $3 billion bailout program will help reset the economy and aid millions of citizens while the country is experiencing a severe economic crisis.
Many patients in Nigeria have been left without health care as doctors in government hospitals began a five-day strike demanding better conditions for their profession.
Lebanon has received an Interpol notice after the embattled governor of its central bank, Riad Salameh, failed to appear for questioning in one of several corruption investigations.
Former President Barack Obama and "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert join 48 members of Congress and two former ambassadors on a list of Americans barred from entering Russia.
While Russia has declared Greenpeace a national security threat for its pro-Ukraine advocacy, a top anti-Putin politician, Yevgeny Roizman, was spared a prison sentence.
Right-wing Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's party organized a rally and counter-protest in defiance of thousands of anti-government marchers protesting over two recent shootings.
Zimbabwe released over 4,000 prisoners under a presidential amnesty in order to ease overcrowding in jails. Former inmates have complained about harsh conditions in jails.
A businessman who was accused of masterminding the 2018 killing of an investigative journalist and his fiancée has been acquitted for a second time by a court in Slovakia.
At least 36 people were injured, some of them seriously, after a speedboat in Thailand crashed into a concrete post in an incident where the captain may have fallen asleep.
The United Nations office in Nigeria says at least $396 million is needed to prevent widespread malnutrition and hunger caused by the security crisis in northeastern Nigeria.
A German doctor convicted of threatening a woman by emailing her an extract from a fairy tale has been rejected for an appeal. The doctor deliberately threatened the employee with death.
A Polish official said an object that entered Poland's airspace in 2022 has been identified as a Russian-made rocket. The rocket was made of concrete and is being examined.
Towns in western Spain were evacuated as a wildfire tore through the region. Authorities suspect the fire started intentionally since two separate blazes erupted simultaneously.
The Biden administration has resisted providing Ukraine with F-16 warplanes but may now step aside as other countries with access to the planes consider providing them.
A small tsunami caused by a 7.7 magnitude earthquake has hit the islands of the South Pacific and New Zealand. The threat passed in a few hours and no damage has been reported.
The Islamic Republic of Iran continues targeting protesters who took to the streets after the regime murdered a young Iranian-Kurdish woman for failing to cover her hair.
A surgeon at the Mainz University Hospital in Germany has been fired after having a hospital cleaner with no medical experience assist in a toe amputation.
Sudan's top army general fired Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, the former deputy of the country's governing body who is now a paramilitary leader, in a symbolic gesture.
A road incident where a vehicle overturned along the border of China and Vietnam has led to the deaths of 11 people. Authorities said the incident was related to human trafficking.