Sudan has been shaken by pro-democracy protests and a deadly crackdown by security forces since General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan mounted the October 25 takeover

Famous for his modesty, Tutu gave instructions for a simple, no-frills ceremony, with a cheap coffin, followed by an eco-friendly cremation.

He had been disqualified for what Libyan authorities said were war crimes committed during the uprising against his father more than 10 years ago. 

The two countries have been having a border dispute and ongoing disagreements over the shared waters of the Nile River.

He is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and murder committed when his father ruled the North African country.

Haftar's announcement came two days after Seif al Islam Gaddafi declared his own candidacy, a decade on from his father's death in a 2011 Nato-backed rebellion. Both are deeply divisive figures.

The announcement came more than two weeks since Burhan dissolved the government led by Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, detained the civilian leadership, and declared a nationwide state of emergency.

The coup on Oct. 25 drew swift condemnation from Western countries including the United States, which had been working closely with the dissolved transitional government to stabilise Sudan after decades of isolation under Bashir.

Meanwhile the United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the US is alarmed by reports that Tigrayan rebel forces have taken over two key Ethiopian towns of Dessie and Kombolcha.

Local media reporting on developments, including protests that broke out following the coup, have also been limited.

Soldiers stormed the headquarters of Sudan's state broadcaster in the capital's twin city of Omdurman, the ministry said, as patriotic songs were aired on television.

The slaying of Sankara, a pan-Africanist icon, has for years cast a shadow over the poor Sahel state, fuelling its reputation for turbulence and bloodshed.

Doumbouya, who led the overthrow of President Alpha Conde on September 5, was sworn in on Friday by Supreme Court head Mamadou Sylla for a transition period of unspecified length.

Clement Chiwaya, who was 50, killed himself inside the parliament building, where he had gone to discuss vehicle benefits entitled to him when he left office in 2019.

Troops led by a special forces colonel, Mamady Doumbouya, on September 5 arrested 83-year-old President Alpha Conde, who had been battling a wave of unpopularity in one of Africa's poorest and most volatile countries.

Eleven suspects of different nationalities were arrested in the raid, which targeted several locations in the south of the capital, it said, describing them as "foreign terrorists"

The previous government, led by Edgar Lungu, said Zambia's Chinese debts stood at $3.4 billion. But the estimate published by CARI on Tuesday chimes with comments from President Hakainde Hichilema, who took office last month, that the debt…

The head of the Sudanese military, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, said in a statement that the Ethiopian forces were forced to retreat from the Umm Barakit area, without giving further details.

Sudan's military said 21 officers and a number of soldiers had been detained in connection to the coup attempt, and a search continued for others. All affected locations under army control, it said.

The caution by the UN's Department of Safety and Security comes at a time when authorities have been encouraging people displaced by the attacks to return home.

Interrogation of suspects involved in the attempted coup was due to begin and the military would issue a statement shortly, spokesman Mohamed al-Faki said.

Florence Parly told reporters on Monday that if Mali hired the firm, at a time when international partners fighting jihadism in the Sahel "had never been so numerous, such a choice would be that of isolation".

He criticized African leaders’ lack of trust in their own nations’ troops, and said French soldiers often enjoyed preferential treatment.

The corpses were identified by Ethiopians residing in the Wad al Hulaywah area of eastern Sudan, it said.

"Guinea is beautiful. We don't need to rape Guinea anymore, we just need to make love to her," he added.

“It’s a new dawn. Time has come for all Zambians to be truly free,” he said to a cheering crowd. Hichilema vowed to deliver a “united, prosperous and equitable Zambia.”

Forces under Filipos' command are responsible for "massacres, looting, and sexual assaults," the Treasury Department said in a statement.

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has not made a statement on the pact but a spokesperson for the group confirmed the agreement to the Bloomberg news agency.

The "cabinet decided to hand over wanted officials to the ICC," Mahdi was quoted as saying by state media.

Deby said armed groups have "a patriotic obligation to reconsider their positions" and to help the transitional council build national unity.

The Afar regional administration blames Tigrayan forces for the incident, as fighting in Ethiopia’s nine-month conflict escalates in regions bordering Tigray.

Somalia is struggling to rebuild after a 20-year civil war and is still battling an insurgency by al-Qaeda affiliate Al Shabaab.

The bodies were found in the Setit River, known in Ethiopia as the Tekeze, which is the current de facto borderline between territory controlled by Tigrayan forces and those controlled by Amhara forces allied with Ethiopia's federal…

The government will first spend $17 million making emergency repairs to parts of the other half of the national network that’s already in use.

Geoff Makhubo took office in December 2019 after the ruling party wrested control of the city from an opposition coalition.

Zuma will serve at least a quarter of his 15-month sentence, Lamola said. “Where there is no stipulated minimum time before getting parole, then the law says a quarter of the sentence has to be served before being released on parole.”

If Zuma fails to turn himself in by Sunday, police will be ordered to arrest him and take him to prison.

A spokeswoman for the prime minister, a military spokesman and the head of the government’s emergency taskforce in Tigray did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The airstrike in the village of Togoga killed at least 51 people and left 33 missing and more than 100 wounded, a regional health official told The Associated Press. Children were among the victims, other health workers said, adding that…

The experts called on Asmara to withdraw troops, and an immediate investigation into abuses, including the abduction of refugees.

The war in Tigray was the subject of an informal closed meeting of the U.N. Security Council where aid chief Mark Lowcock warned that over 350,000 people were in famine conditions, with deaths from starvation already reported

Officials at the hospital confirmed the dead were killed in an attack earlier in the day at a checkpoint outside the General Degaban military training camp in the capital. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Islamist group al…

Shekau died around May 18 after detonating an explosive device when he was pursued by ISWAP fighters following a battle, a person purporting to be ISWAP leader Abu Musab al-Barnawi said on the audio recording. "Abubakar Shekau, God has…

The ban is due to “the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence,” Information Minister Lai Mohammed said Friday in a statement that was also posted on Twitter.

The UN’s World Food Program said it was alarmed at how the conflict had increased already-high levels of hunger in Tigray. He said the move came in response to TPLF attacks on federal army camps.

While Germany has previously acknowledged "moral responsibility" for the killings, it has avoided making an official apology for the massacres to avoid compensation claims. Germany has agreed to fund 1.1 billion euros of reconstruction and…

Musa said she had submitted her resignation on May 12, a day after the killing of two protesters who had been marking the anniversary of a deadly raid on a protest site during the 2019 uprising. Medics, protest groups and eyewitnesses have…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on Sunday the new actions by the United States are to press for a resolution of the crisis: "The time for action from the international community is now."

The court in Pietermaritzburg is examining 16 charges of fraud, graft and racketeering relating to a 1999 purchase of fighter jets, patrol boats and military gear from five European arms firms. Zuma, then serving as deputy president to…

The continental body's chairman Moussa Faki urged Somali leaders to "negotiate in good faith... for an inclusive settlement to the electoral crisis". Somalia needs "a democratically elected government with the legitimacy and mandate to…

Zoe Kabila was stripped of his job as governor of Tanganyika.

Former President Omar al-Bashir Bashir, who’s currently facing trial for the coup that brought him to power, espoused a form of Islamist governance during three decades in office

His son was immediately named transitional leader as head of a military council and both the government and parliament were dissolved

The new government of the Sacred Union coalition has 57 members including 14 women, with only 10 from the previous cabinet being reappointed.

The agreement was marked in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, which has mediated past negotiations between the Sudan Popular Liberation Movement – North, led by Abdel-Aziz al-Hilu, and the government.

His campaign director told the AFP news agency that Kolelas "died in the medical aircraft which came to get him from Brazzaville on Sunday afternoon"

Al Shabaab frequently carries out such attacks in Somalia and elsewhere as part of its campaign to oust the central government in Mogadishu

President Felix Tshisekedi met his top security advisors on Tuesday to discuss responses to the attack.

Congo’s interior ministry blamed a Rwandan ethnic Hutu rebel militia called the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), one of the more than 120 armed groups operating in eastern Congo. 

The Italian ambassador, Luca Attanasio, and a military policeman travelling with him were killed, the Italian foreign ministry said in a statement.

In recent months, Tshisekedi has chipped away at the influence of Kabila, with whom he formed an awkward power-sharing deal following a disputed 2018 election.

Ethiopia has also accused Sudan of crossing into its territory.

The last person declared recovered from Ebola in Equateur was on October 16.

The election of Christophe Mboso, the oldest member of parliament, is the latest in a string of setbacks for Joseph Kabila

A police spokesman, Sadik Dudishe, said that police "immediately entered the building" at the onset of the attack, rescuing "most" of those inside, adding however: "The operation is still going on."

The vote Wednesday in the capital, Kinshasa, marks another victory for President Felix Tshisekedi.

The two countries have recently clashed over contested land at the nations’ border.

On December 19, the government accused Bozize of mounting "an attempted coup" with the help of armed groups, eight days before the troubled country held presidential and legislative elections.

Last January, Somalia's al Shabaab insurgents took responsibility for a car bombing that wounded at least 15 people in Afgoye, with those injured comprising Turkish contractors as well as Somali nationals.

Farmers had gone to the fields in the village of Tingwe when they were attacked by Allied Democratic Forces rebels, according to the representative of the governor in the region, Sabiti Njiamoja.

The Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC), which began an offensive against the government a week ago, said in a statement it had "decided to break the 72-hour truce it had imposed on itself and resume its unrelenting march towards its…

I reiterated, time and again, that nothing would distract me away from my firm position on this matter. Regrettably, all my persistent efforts to avoid conflict by all means were taken for weakness.

Kabila's supporters in the Common Front of the Congo (FCC) party accuse Tshisekedi of breaching the constitution.

Thousands of people are believed to have died while more than 46,000 refugees have crossed to neighbouring Sudan.

Protesters remained on the streets, mainly outside army headquarters, after Bashir's fall, to pressure the military into sharing power with civilians.

Bozize, whose overthrow in 2013 had been living in Uganda before he returned to the country last year.

The war in Tigray region has killed hundreds and probably thousands, sent refugees into Sudan, enmeshed Eritrea

Global concern mounted over a possible bloodbath, and heavy shelling was reported in Mekele earlier Saturday.

Abiy called on the people of Mekelle to “disarm, stay at home and stay away from military targets”.

The 57-year-old has cast the conflict as resistance to a push by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to centralise power, which the government denies, accusing his movement of revolt.

Mahdi, 84, the leader of the moderate Umma Party, one of the largest opposition parties under  Omar al-Bashir was taken ill three weeks ago

“We respectfully urge the international community to refrain from any unwelcome and unlawful acts of interference,"

The UN representative in DR Congo, Leila Zerrougui, said the ruling showed that "impunity is not inevitable".

Three years after his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa took over, the high hopes for change have dissipated into disaffection.

Tigray forces on the other hand said they were digging trenches and standing firm.

A senior Tigrayan official, Wondimu Asamnew, said that Tigrayan forces "have adopted a defensive posture on all fronts".

He also appointed new executives to state-owned companies that have collapsed under mismanagement and graft.

An Ethiopian of Tigrayan descent, Tedros served as Ethiopia’s health minister and foreign minister from 2005-2016 in a government coalition led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).

Some 4,000 people are fleeing across the border every day, Baloch said.

WHO said the latest outbreak had killed 55 people among 119 confirmed and 11 probable cases since June 1.

Jubilant crowds packed a central square in Khartoum, chanting and carrying banners to celebrate.

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which governs the region of more than 5 million people, has accused Eritrea of sending tanks and thousands of soldiers over the border to support Ethiopian federal troops.

The attack exacerbated concerns that a conflict Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has vowed would be quick and contained could instead snowball and destabilise the broader Horn of Africa region.

The terrorist groups tried to exploit the security situation in the country,  the statement said, referring to the federal government’s military action on the Northern Tigray regional government.

In just one year, an alarming twenty-plus people in President Félix Tshisekedi’s immediate entourage died.

United Nations and regional officials have expressed alarm about the fighting, which they fear could lead to all-out war in Africa’s second most populous nation.

“They are coming with very, very little possessions and while most of them have actually come in in a healthy condition, we have had information on some who have been injured,” UNHCR representative Axel Bisschop told reporters in a virtual…

He was also seen as a champion of the poor and began his leadership of the country as a committed socialist.

The government also warned people living at the border to be wary of the repercussions of tensions in neighbouring Ethiopia, it added.

Its report was based on more than 70 interviews with businessmen, government officials, al Shabaab defectors and active members of the insurgents' tax collection cell.