South Sudan's political elites have been criticized in a new report for systemic government corruption and brazen predation, according to the UN Human Rights Commission. The report, Plundering a Nation: How Rampant Corruption Unleashed a Human Rights Crisis in South Sudan, accuses the country's political elites of systemic corruption and diversion of public revenues, leaving millions without basic services.

France has suspended counterterrorism cooperation with Mali and ordered the country's diplomats to leave Paris. The move followed the arrest of a French diplomatic staff member in Bamako in August.

The expulsion by the French government is the latest twist in a spiralling row between Paris and Bamako, which has been

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has said there were only 13 survivors after a vessel carrying 74 people, mostly Sudanese refugees, capsized Sunday off the Libyan port city of Tobruk. This follows another shipwreck on Saturday which the International Organisation for Migration said claimed the lives of at least 50 people "after a vessel carrying 75 Sudanese refugees caught fire off Libya's coast".

Various control measures are being scaled up in the Democratic Republic of Congo in response to the latest Ebola outbreak, leading to quicker detection of the virus, early start of treatment and contact tracing, the World Health Organization has said. WHO also announced that it has begun a vaccine rollout.

In a statement, the

A new Bill has introduced in the United States House of Representatives that proposes the repeal of the nearly 25-year-old sanctions regime imposed on Zimbabwe, marking a possible shift in Washington's policy towards Harare. 

The legislation, tabled by Republican Brian Mast, is tied to new conditions, stipulating that Washington will not support new IMF and World Bank funding for Zimbabwe until the government

The September 12 statement by the Quartet countries - the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt - following a meeting in Washington, DC, "has stirred-up the desire of the Sudanese people to bring peace to the country," saysDabanga journalist Abdelmoneim Madibo. "The statement pointed out that there is no

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has handed France a legal victory in its dispute with Equatorial Guinea over a Paris mansion seized during a corruption probe into Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the son of long-time ruler Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

The case was launched in 2022, with Equatorial Guinea accusing France of breaching international law by holding onto the property. Judges

More than 100,000 people have been displaced by "new deadly floods," the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has said. Various parts of the country, including the Upper Nile and Unity states, have been inundated in recent weeks. 

The agency said the situation is expected to get worse in September and October and threatens to "cut off entire communities, exacerbate hunger and heighten protection risks,

Ghanaian President John Mahama has announced that the first group of West African deportees from the U.S. arrived in Ghana.

Mahama said that Ghana had accepted 14 people, including several Nigerians and one Gambian, under a regional visa-free travel arrangement, after the U.S. requested Ghana to take in third-party nationals.

The move formed part of former U.S. President Donald Trump's broader

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened hearings against fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, nearly 20 years after issuing its first arrest warrant for him.

Judges are set to examine 39 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Kony, including murder, torture, rape, sexual slavery, and pillaging. This would be ICC's first-ever confirmation of