The Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group have been fighting to control Africa's third-largest country and its vast resources for the past 12 months ... Read more »
The move comes as a response to rising tensions over a controversial port deal - involving Ethiopia leasing 20km of coastline in Somaliland, a territory that Somalia claims as its ... Read more »
Human Rights Watch has accused the Ethiopian army of killing dozens of civilians and committing other war crimes in the country's northwestern Amhara region. The incident which ... Read more »
Judith Suminwa Tuluka, an economist, has been appointed as the first female Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is taking over from Jean-Michel Sama Read more »
Some experts have expressed fears that with the increasing violence in the Sahel, due to the multiplicity of armed groups, it's hard to see how a political transition could ... Read more »
The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Niger would not only be a disaster for its counter-terrorism initiatives in the region but would also hinder its efforts to counter the rise of ... Read more »
More than 130 students abducted by gunmen from a school in Nigeria earlier this month have been freed unharmed, just days before a ransom deadline, officials say. The kidnapping, ... Read more »
The latest Human Rights Watch report accuses Malian armed forces and Wagner Group mercenaries of committing war crimes against civilians in central and northern Mali. Read more »
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is alarmed by the worsening violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has reached a "devastating level". Over 1.3 million ... Read more »
The U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, Tom Perriello, has said he is looking to harness the different peace initiatives on the war-torn nation to bring an end to the violence and create ... Read more »
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