July 27
Ethiopia: Orthodox Patriarch Condemns Attacks On Believers After Monastery Drone Strike in Amhara, Separate Assault in Central Ethiopia Regions
Addis Standard
His Holiness Abune Mathias, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, has strongly condemned recent attacks targeting monasteries and believers in the Amhara and Central… Read more »
Africa: U.S. Signals Renewed Africa Security Push Centered On Logistics, Partnerships At Addis Defense Summit
Addis Standard
Senior United States officials used the opening of the African Logistics Communications Symposium (ALCS) in Addis Abeba on Monday to outline what appears to be an evolving U.S. … Read more »
Southern Africa: SADC, AU and Botswana Co-Host High-Level Harmonisation Meeting to Promote Peace Initiatives in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo [press release]
SADC
The Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU) and the Government of Botswana co-hosted the High-Level Harmonisation Meeting of the AU Panel of… Read more »
South Africa: Hermanus Schoolboy in Russian Military Uniform Raises Alarm
Daily Maverick
Ukrainians have protested against Russia's 'militarising and indoctrinating' South Africa's youth after a social media post showed pictures of a schoolboy in Russian uniform that… Read more »
July 26
South Sudan: South Sudan's First Elections Won't Be Perfect - but Another Delay Could Be Even Riskier [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
South Sudan is expected to hold an election on 22 December 2026, the first in the country's history. It's already been postponed twice, in 2022 and 2024. Read more »
Nigeria: Exclusive - How Coup Suspect Mocked Tinubu After Independence Day Parade Was Cancelled
Premium Times
This part of the PREMIUM TIMES series on the yet-untold stories about the now moot coup plot against the President Tinubu-led government captures the paradox of motivation and… Read more »
Sudan: Khartoum (2025) - Sudanese Filmmakers Turn War Into Intimate Portraits
Dabanga
Drawing from footage shot in Sudan and Nairobi since 2022, four Sudanese filmmakers use unconventional, experimental methods to inject whimsy into a devastating reality. Khartoum… Read more »
Sudan: Sudanese Army Claim Capture of Strategic North Kordofan Towns
Dabanga
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) says it has captured the towns of Bara, Jabra El Sheikh, and Um Sayala in North Kordofan, which gives it full control of the Export Road, secures… Read more »
July 25
Ethiopia: Tigray's Lost Classrooms - Why Education Must Be At the Centre of Recovery [analysis]
African Arguments
The war in Tigray did not only destroy lives, homes, hospitals and livelihoods. It also attacked the foundations of the region's future by depriving an entire generation of… Read more »
Uganda: Family's Search for Kenneth Kakuru Exposes Plight of More Than 90 Missing Ugandans in Ukraine
Nile Post
For nearly six months, Anthens Ankunda has clung to hope that her husband, Kenneth Kakuru, will one day return home. Read more »
Sudan: ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan Dismissed for Sexual Misconduct
Dabanga
The International Criminal Court's (ICC) member states have voted to dismiss Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan following an investigation that found he had committed serious misconduct,… Read more »
Ethiopia: Fano Rejects National Dialogue Conference, Urges Boycott and Intensified Anti-Government Struggle
Addis Standard
The Amhara Fano National Movement (AFNM) has rejected Ethiopia's ongoing National Dialogue conference, describing it as a political exercise designed to restore the ruling… Read more »
Rwanda: Gen Muhoozi in Kigali for Official Defence Cooperation Visit
Nile Post
The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has arrived in Kigali, Rwanda, for an official working visit aimed at advancing defence cooperation and… Read more »
Uganda: Lt Gen Okiding Tasks New Defence Forces Shop General Manager With Advancing UPDF Welfare
Nile Post
The Deputy Chief of Defence Forces and Inspector General, Lieutenant General Sam Okiding, has urged the new General Manager of Defence Forces Shop Uganda Limited (DFSUL), Colonel… Read more »
Nigeria: Further On the African Land Forces Forum
This Day
Following the article "The Army, NADCEL 2026 and ALFF", which appeared on this page last Saturday, many have called to ask questions on one aspect of the article or the other. Read more »
July 24
Sudan: In El Obeid, Sudanese Women Face Drones By Day, Rape By Night, to Reach Water
UN News
In El Obeid, women and girls now face an impossible choice over something as basic as a bucket of water: risk a drone strike by collecting it in daylight, or risk rape by waiting… Read more »
South Sudan: Arms Smuggling - a Key Threat to South Sudan's December Elections [analysis]
ISS
South Sudan's fragile transition is increasingly shaped by forces beyond its borders that drive illicit arms flows into the country. Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Angolan President Briefed On DRC Security Situation
ANGOP
Angolan president João Lourenço received on Friday a message from his counterpart from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi, regarding the… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Neutralizing the FDLR Remains the Key Obstacle to Peace in the East - Kinshasa Focuses On Diplomacy
Agenzia Fides
As the national dialogue launched by President Félix Tshisekedi continues (see Fides, 23/7/2026), one of the central issues remains the persistent insecurity in the eastern… Read more »
Africa: AU, U.S. Envoy Discuss Aussom's Future Amid Funding Uncertainty
Shabelle
The head of the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) met the acting U.S. ambassador to Somalia in Mogadishu to discuss the mission's future as it… Read more »
Nigeria: Premium Times to Bring Rare, Intriguing Details of 2025 Alleged Coup Plot Against Tinubu Administration
Premium Times
The special PREMIUM TIMES series draws on official investigation records, bringing to light rare, intriguing and shocking details of the alleged 2025 failed coup plot against… Read more »
Africa: UNHCR - 75 Years On, the Refugee Convention Remains a Lifeline for Millions
UNHCR
Seventy-five years after the Refugee Convention was opened for signature on 28 July 1951, it remains the foundation of the international refugee protection system and one of the… Read more »
Sudan: Civilians Killed in Wave of Attacks Across Blue Nile, Kordofan As Sudan's Conflict Widens [blog]
Darfur Network for Human Rights
A series of attacks across Blue Nile and Kordofan states this week left dozens of civilians dead, including children, as fighting between the Sudanese army, the Rapid Support… Read more »
Liberia: Tamar J.W. Tarr - the Private Who Wants to Command an Army
Liberian Investigator
Women are 7.4 percent of the Armed Forces of Liberia. Pvt. Tamar J.W. Tarr, 24, a clerk at headquarters, is aiming at the office at the very top of it. Read more »
Nigeria: Dan Ulasi Questions Gowon's Civil War Memoir, Dismisses It As 'Convenient Amnesia'
Vanguard
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dan Ulasi, has dismissed former Head of State Yakubu Gowon's account of the Nigerian Civil War in his recently released memoir,… Read more »
