Africa

At least twelve civilians were killed in an attack by suspected extremists in an area of western Burkina Faso bordering Mali, a local official and residents told AFP on Saturday. The village of Kie was attacked by “unidentified armed individuals on Friday evening,” a local official said on the condition …

Airstrikes thumped outer areas of the Sudanese capital Khartoum overnight and on Saturday morning, as the conflict between political rivals which has displaced more than a million and killed hundreds entered its sixth week. According to eyewitnesses in southern Omdurman and northern Bahri, airstrikes were reported in the region, while …

The Sudanese army carried out air strikes on Monday along the River Nile in the north of the capital Khartoum as it fought to push back its paramilitary rivals after a month of warfare, witnesses said. Intense battles in Khartoum and its sister cities of Bahri and Omdurman have raged …

Khartoum residents described fierce battles on Saturday with fighters roving the streets and little sign Sudan’s warring sides were respecting an agreement to protect civilians ahead of ceasefire talks due to resume in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. Fighting has rocked Khartoum and adjoining areas as well as Geneina in the …

Sudan’s Army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have signed an agreement to facilitate humanitarian aid to the conflict-ridden African country, which faces a severe food crisis following weeks-long military conflict. Media reports said on Friday that the two rival military forces agreed to protect civilians but failed to reach a …

Protesters have taken to the streets in capital Dakar against what they call an increasingly repressive state. Violence during protests in the Ngor neighbourhood of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, has killed one teenager and wounded 30 people as young protesters took to the streets against an increasingly “repressive state”. The …

A Tunisian security officer who was wounded in Tuesday’s shooting attack outside a synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba has died, hospital sources said, bringing the death toll to six including the shooter. The attacker, a National Guard member, killed a colleague at a naval installation, then travelled to …

When a power struggle between Sudan’s rival military leaders shattered a tenuous peace in her village in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, Halime Yacoub Issac’s first instinct was to take her five children and run. But four days after seeking refuge in neighbouring Chad – a country with its own …

Amid the escalating conflict in Sudan, the United States is attempting to either implement its ideological changes in the African country and turn it into a secular state or weaken it through balkanization, according to a commentator. By removing Islam from Sudan’s constitution, the US is seeking to remove the …

The death toll from floods that devastated two villages in east Democratic Republic of Congo last week has more than doubled to 401, the provincial governor said on Monday, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in the country’s recent history. More bodies were being recovered on Monday, adding …

Authorities say 287 were killed and 167 others missing after heavy rains caused rivers to burst their banks in South Kivu province. The death toll following flooding and landslides in the Democratic Republic of Congo this week has risen to at least 287, according to the government of South Kivu …

Sudanese rival forces have continued fighting in Khartoum as mediators for Sudan’s warring sides meet in Saudi Arabia, seeking an end to the violent skirmishes. Fighting continued on Sunday between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as representatives of the country’s rivaling military leaders began talks to …

Sudanese rival forces have continued fighting in Khartoum as mediators for Sudan’s warring sides meet in Saudi Arabia, seeking an end to the violent skirmishes. Fighting continued on Sunday between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as representatives of the country’s rivaling military leaders began talks to …

More than 200 people have died in flash floods in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after heavy rain destroyed buildings and forced aid workers to gather mud-clad corpses into piles. According to South Kivu governor Theo Ngwabije, dozens of people were unaccounted for in the Kalehe region, west of Lake …

Envoys of Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are in Jeddah for talks on Saturday, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said, as the gathering’s international mediators pressed for an end to a conflict that has devastated the country. The U.S.-Saudi initiative is the first serious attempt to end three weeks …

A London court has jailed Nigerian politician Ike Ekweremadu for nine years and eight months in Britain’s first illegal organ-harvesting prosecution, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Friday. Ekweremadu’s wife Beatrice, 56, and London-based doctor Obinna Obeta, 51, were sentenced to four years and six months, and ten years, respectively, …

Heavy gunfire echoed around Khartoum again on Friday as civilians trapped in the Sudanese capital said the army and rival paramilitary forces were fighting on and ignoring their plight. “It’s been four days without electricity and our situation is difficult… We are the victims of a war that we aren’t …

South Africans are calling for Britain to return the world’s largest clear-cut diamond, known as the Great Star of Africa, as many South Africans view Britain’s acquisition of the jewels as illegitimate. As King Charles III prepares for his coronation on Saturday, demands for the return of the Great Star …

In Sudan, heavy fighting was reported in and around the capital Khartoum early Thursday, despite a weeklong cease-fire agreed to by both sides in the conflict. Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Defense Forces each appeared to be trying to push the other out of central Khartoum and control areas …

Sudan’s regular army, led by the de facto leader of the country Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo’s army, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), have agreed to a seven-day ceasefire. The two rival generals agreed to a new ceasefire on Tuesday after the previous one expired …