Africa

The two stop staff “have been designated as persona non grata, and asked to leave the country within 72 hours,” the WFP said in a statement.

AU chair Mahmoud Ali Youssouf urges “inclusive national dialogue and consultation” in the country following the victory of President Paul Biya.

Voters are electing the president, members of the country’s 400-seat parliament and a leader and lawmakers in the semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago.

Eighteen people perished when a wooden vessel carrying dozens of migrants capsized off the coast of Libya on Tuesday, while 64 people were rescued, the United Nations’ migration agency said.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Tuesday that five of its volunteers were killed in Sudan.

The UN’s top envoy in the Central African Republic (CAR) said on Tuesday that the peace process has “regained momentum” following a ceasefire agreement signed in April, but warned that upcoming budget cuts could undermine progress.

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has called for international “mediation” with Eritrea over access to the sea, insisting on an “irreversible” claim to the coastline as tensions rise between the Horn of Africa neighbours.

The Civil Aviation Authority said the accident happened at Kwale, near the Indian Ocean coast

In the absence of her main rivals in the elections, President Samia Suluhu Hassan and the ruling CCM party are expected to have a clear advantage over smaller rivals.

Sudan’s army says it has withdrawn from Al Fasher as the United Nations issued stark warnings over atrocities by the RSF.