Africa

Around 80 people are feared missing in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after armed rebels ambushed a convoy on Wednesday and set fire to 16 vehicles, a local parliamentarian said. Jean-Paul Ngahangondi, a member of the Ituri province’s parliament, blamed the assault on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an …

Heavy flooding has affected about 380,000 people in South Sudan, with overflowing rivers submerging homes and displacing families in the impoverished country, the UN’s humanitarian agency OCHA said Tuesday. Nearly three-quarters of those affected are in two states — Unity and Jonglei — OCHA said in a briefing note, warning …

Internet services in South Sudan were disrupted on Monday and security forces patrolled the streets after activists called for protests against President Salva Kiir’s government. The capital Juba was quieter than usual as residents sheltered inside. Internet access was restored on Monday evening, residents said, although service was slow. A …

Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 19 people in a raid on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local authorities said. The attackers looted houses and started fires in Kasanzi-Kithovo near Virunga National Park in North Kivu province overnight between Friday and Saturday, they said. “I don’t …

Libya’s oil minister said on Sunday that he was suspending the head of the state oil company, escalating a dispute between the two – but with a move that he may struggle to enforce. Oil Minister Mohamed Oun said in a letter, confirmed by ministry sources, that National Oil Corp …

Ninety children abducted from a school in Nigeria were reunited on Friday with their parents after being held captive for nearly three months, part of a wave of mass kidnappings by armed gangs that have spread fear across the north of the country. “Today is the happiest and most joyful …

Mali’s former prime minister Boubeye Maiga was arrested on Thursday for his role in the purchase of a presidential plane during the rule of ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, his lawyer said. The exact reason for the arrest was not clear, but it was related to Mali’s purchase of a …

The two groups decry the diplomatic rift and ask the North African rivals to resolve the conflict. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and the Arab League have called for “dialogue” to resolve the diplomatic dispute between Algeria and Morocco. Algeria on Tuesday said it had cut diplomatic relations with …

Gunmen killed at least 150 people last week in western Ethiopia, the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said on Thursday, in what it described as an attack by an armed group on civilians. The commission said that residents of the Gida Kiremu district in the Eastern Wollega zone told its …

Algeria will increase the number of international flights it allows from Aug. 28, partly to help repatriate Algerians stuck abroad since air travel restrictions were imposed at the start of the pandemic last year. The country began gradually reopening its borders in June although arrivals must comply with strict health …

A gunman killed three police officers and a private security guard on a rampage through a diplomatic quarter of Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam on Wednesday, before being shot dead while holed up in a guardhouse at the French embassy’s gate. Videos on the internet, apparently filmed by onlookers …

Algeria announced on Tuesday that it was officially severing ties with neighbouring Morocco “starting today”, after months of tensions between the two countries. Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra made the announcement during a press conference on Tuesday evening. “It has been proven that the (Moroccan) kingdom has not ceased its …

A state of uncertainty continues to dominate politics in Tunisia, as the country effectively remains without a government one month after President Kais Saied sacked his prime minister, with the chief executive now indefinitely extending the suspension of parliament. According to reports, Saied’s unexpected intervention last month granted him an …

More than 20 people have been killed in two separate attacks in Nigeria’s troubled northwest. Local officials said nine people were killed when “unidentified persons” raided the village of Ungwan Dooh in Kaduna state’s Zangon Kataf district on Sunday. “Nine corpses have been recovered so far following a search of …

More than 20 people have been killed in two separate attacks in Nigeria’s troubled northwest. Local officials said nine people were killed when “unidentified persons” raided the village of Ungwan Dooh in Kaduna state’s Zangon Kataf district on Sunday. “Nine corpses have been recovered so far following a search of …

The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on an Eritrean official who is accused of being engaged in serious human rights abuse in the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, as Washington warned it would continue to target those involved in prolonging the conflict. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement …

A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint into the Libyan town of Zella on Sunday, killing himself but causing no other casualties, a spokesman for the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), which controls that area, said. Libya has endured a decade of violence and chaos since the 2011 NATO-backed uprising against …

Bandits have released 15 more students kidnapped last month from a Baptist school in northwest Nigeria, officials told Reuters on Sunday. School administrator Reverend John Hayab said that parents had raised and paid an undisclosed ransom to free the students, who were among more than 100 taken on July 5 …

Gunmen have kidnapped at least 60 people in a fresh attack on a community in Zamfara State, an official has said. The Zamfara State Commissioner of Information, Ibrahim Dosara, told TVC News that the gunmen stormed the Rini community. He said that after the attack, 60 residents of the community …

At least three people have been martyred and a dozen more wounded after police forces attacked a commemorative Ashura mourning procession held by local Shia Muslims in Nigeria’s northern state of Sokoto, a report says. According to a report published on the website of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria on Friday, Nigerian …