Ukraine welcomed Prince Harry to Kyiv on Thursday 23 April 2026 for a two day visit that remained unannounced until his arrival.

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Francis Kere, a citizen of both Burkina Faso and Germany, is the only African to have won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture.

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Nigeria has inaugurated a military court to try officers accused of involvement in a failed coup attempt, marking a significant step in the government’s response to a plot that authorities say could have ended decades of democratic rule.

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Francis Kere, a citizen of both Burkina Faso and Germany, is the only African to have won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture.

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Ghana summoned South Africa's envoy to the country on Thursday over several "xenophobic incidents," including one in which a legal Ghanaian migrant was asked to return home and "fix his country."

Alix Didier Fils-Aimé told the United Nations that several areas of the capital, Port-Au-Prince, are slowly being retaken by security forces.

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A dual outbreak of measles and meningitis is sweeping eastern Chad, driven by the continued influx of refugees fleeing Sudan's civil war, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned Thursday, as overcrowded camps and limited healthcare accelerate transmission.

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The inaugural meeting took place at the African Union headquarters in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on Tuesday.

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Pix of the Day, 24 April 2026

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Ukraine marked the 40th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in April 2026 as former clean-up workers returned to the site.

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The US president has repeatedly made false claims of a genocide being carried out against minority white Afrikaners.

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The US president has repeatedly made false claims of a genocide being carried out against minority white Afrikaners.

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The Philippines’ former president Rodrigo Duterte will face trail at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Judges on Thursday confirmed charges of crimes against humanity against Duterte for dozens of alleged extrajudicial killings.

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Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has promised constitutional reform in response to last year’s post-election violence that left hundreds of people dead.

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Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has promised constitutional reform in response to last year’s post-election violence that left hundreds of people dead.

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Buildings across Morocco’s capital have turned into massive canvases for the 11th "JIDAR Rabat Street Art Festival," bringing together artists from around the globe.

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Top Iranian officials took to social media on Thursday to push back against US claims that its leadership is divided. ‘There are no hardliners or moderates,’ the country’s president and parliamentary speaker both posted.

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Pope Leo XIV on Thursday held an open-air mass in Equatorial Guinea in front of tens of thousands of followers, wrapping up his first major international tour that began with harsh criticism of his stance on Iran from US President Donald Trump.

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In a working-class neighbourhood of Abidjan, a small group of young volunteers armed with shovels and rakes is scrubbing rubbish-clogged drains. Their message: “Our streets are not rubbish bins.”

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