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Jannik Sinner claimed the Paris Masters 1000 crown for the first time on Sunday following a straight sets win over Félix Auger-Aliassime.

As President Alassane Ouattara prepares for a fourth term after winning last week's election in Côte d'Ivoire in a landslide, the exclusion of his two main challengers from the race has left the opposition splintered and voters disillusioned. With no successor lined up for the 83-year-old leader, observers are concerned…

An aggressive proliferation of water hyacinth in southern Ghana's Volta Lake is crippling fishing activities, depleting fish stocks and destroying local livelihoods.

Côte d’Ivoire is the world's main source of cocoa beans, yet for decades, Ivorians rarely tasted chocolate made from their own crops. Determined to change that, Axel Emmanuel Gbaou founded his own business transforming locally grown cocoa into chocolate – and helping farmers to master more of the lucrative steps…

The European Union on Sunday urged the Tanzanian authorities to exercise "maximum restraint in order to preserve human lives," following violence during the re-election of President Samia Suluhu Hassan.

A top French prosecutor leading the inquiry into the alleged rape of a 26-year-old woman in a courthouse cell in northern Paris by two police officers confirmed on Sunday that one of the men filmed the incident with a phone.

Félix Auguer-Aliassime will take on Jannik Sinner on Sunday afternoon in the final of the 2025 Paris Masters. The two will vie in front of 17,500 spectators to hoist the prize for the first time and add his name to a list of victors that includes Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic,…

Tanzania's main opposition party Chadema on Sunday rejected President Samia Suluhu Hassan's landslide victory in elections that triggered deadly protests across the country over the exclusion of her key challengers from the vote.

Ali Akbar of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, has been hawking newspapers in Paris’s Left Bank district for more than five decades. While sales are dwindling, the job has allowed him to lift his family out of poverty and earned him a knighthood – a testament to a local legend, and the end…

More than a month after young people in Madagascar began protesting, winning the support of the military, a new government was sworn in. It was one of the most striking demonstrations of how Gen Z movements around the world are organising to demand basic public services and fundamental rights. Three…

A 38-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man were charged on Saturday for their part in the plot to steal nearly €100 million worth of gems from the Louvre Museum in central Paris..