Sudan Doctors Network says Rapid Support Forces are holding more than 100 families, including women, children, and pregnant women, in life-threatening conditions in Babnousa
Stockholm also announced that three embassies in Bolivia, Liberia, and Zimbabwe, which are primarily focused on aid, will be closed.
Fighting has intensified in eastern DR Congo’s South Kivu province, a day after the Congolese and Rwandan presidents signed US-brokered peace deal, according to sources
US President Donald Trump stated that Somalis "contribute nothing" to the US but ‘’have taken billions of dollars’’ to Somalia, vowing to expel them.
Officials did not give a total arrest figure but gave profiles of 12 people apprehended, five of them from Somalia, the rest from Mexico and El Salvador.
Volker Turk urges an immediate end to fighting as civilian deaths mount and famine deepens.
Burkina Faso's military rulers will bring back the death penalty, which was abolished in 2018, the country's Council of Ministers announced on Thursday.
South Africa will not bow to US pressure to change its policies on race, Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola said on Thursday, after Washington confirmed that Pretoria would be excluded from the G20 under its presidency.
The US will access rare earth minerals in both DRC and Rwanda, President Donald Trump announced on Thursday when Presidents Felix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame signed what Washington termed a "permanent ceasefire" agreement
Senior Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday condemned President Donald Trump’s strongly derogatory comments about Somali-Americans, including immigrant and refugee families.
A Catholic priest was abducted from his residence in Kaduna State, northern Nigeria, the Catholic Diocese of Zaria said on Wednesday.
Safaricom said in a statement that Vodafone Kenya does not intend to launch a takeover offer of Safaricom upon the completion of the acquisition.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame will meet alongside President Donald Trump with DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi for the signing of the peace agreement.
The UN rights office says hundreds of supporters of opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine had been arrested and detained since the start of the year.
The Sudanese paramilitary RSF faces accusations of systematically holding trapped residents for ransom, killing or beating those whose families cannot pay, witnesses, aid workers and researchers have told Reuters.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday the United States would restrict visas over what he termed persecution of Christians in Nigeria.
Ethel Chisono Edwards had apologised for her offensive comments against the president and pleaded for leniency.
A gunman hijacked a turboprop plane in South Sudan on Tuesday, demanding the pilot fly the aircraft to Chad, police said.
Wrapping up his first international trip as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV said on Tuesday he would like to visit Algeria in 2026 as part of a voyage to Africa, which could be his next overseas destination.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has nominated former top military commander General Christopher Musa as new minister of defence as the country grapples with a wave of mass kidnappings.
The Sudanese army recaptured the town of Mabsut in South Kordofan state in the country’s south on Tuesday, after battles with forces allied with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), witnesses said.
The UN says it is "gravely concerned" at the number of civilians fleeing violence in northern Mozambique, where it says around 300,000 people have been displaced in recent months.
Namibia's president has appointed Modestus Amutse as the Southern African country's new minister of mines, energy and industry.
Guinea-Bissau's electoral commission said on Tuesday that armed men had destroyed most of the vote count from the country's election, and it would be unable to publish results.
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