The Moscow Times/Valery Sharifullin / TASS President Vladimir Putin hosted the first-ever Russia-Africa summit Wednesday and Thursday in the latest display of Moscow’s efforts to restore its geopolitical foothold on the continent after the fall of the Soviet Union. Amid a deluge of memoranda of understanding and cooperation agreements, Russia clinched a series of trade

Flowers are seen at the scene where bodies were discovered in a lorry container, in Grays, Essex, Britain October 24, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson Police were given extra time on Thursday to question a driver arrested on suspicion of murder after 39 people, believed to be Chinese nationals, were found dead in a refrigerated truck near

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, poses for a photo with leaders of African countries at the Russia-Africa summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. (Valery Sharifulin, TASS News Agency Pool Photo via AP) Russian President Vladimir Putin is telling leaders at the first-ever Russia-Africa summit that developing economic and

Photo/Daily Nation/From left: Kenya Revenue Authority Board chairman Francis Muthaura, acting National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani and Treasury Economic Secretary Geoffrey Mwau during a past function in Nairobi. Kenya is facing a debt crisis but government officials don’t seem to know what to do about it. The obvious route is to borrow some more

Police move the lorry container where bodies were discovered, in Grays, Essex, Britain October 23, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay Two addresses in Northern Ireland have been searched by police investigating the deaths of 39 people inside a truck at an industrial estate near London. British police found the bodies of 38 adults and one teenager in

Photo/Somali Times The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, attended the opening of the Russia-Africa Cooperation summit and held special meetings with the leaders attending the conference. Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo held a special meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, discussing bilateral relations and. President Farmajo, one of 43 leaders

FILE PHOTO: New ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Germany Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud poses for the media after his diplomatic accreditation at Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo Saudi Arabia appointed a prince with diplomatic experience in Western capitals as foreign minister on Wednesday in a partial cabinet

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, welcomes Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for the talks on the sideline of Russia-Africa summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Sergei Chirikov, pool photo via AP) Russian President Vladimir Putin courted dozens of leaders of African nations Wednesday at the first-ever Russia-Africa

Awar Mohammed, an Oromo activist and leader of the Oromo protest speaks during a Reuters interview at his house in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia October 23, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri Hundreds of supporters of an Ethiopian ethnic activist and media entrepreneur gathered outside his house on Wednesday, hours after it was surrounded by police following a warning

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, welcomes South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa on the sideline of the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. (Sergei Fadeyechev, TASS News Agency Pool Photo via AP) Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted dozens of leaders of African nations Wednesday for the first-ever Russia-Africa summit, reflecting Moscow’s new