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.

But analysts believe the normalisation would fuel anger against Sudan's government.

Trump sealed Israel Sudan deal in a phone call between Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abdullah Hamdook of Sudan

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office made no mention of any person or any country in a statement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which is at the centre of a dispute over Nile water supplies.

The announcement was posted on the website of the Lesotho Communications Authority, which has asked citizens and “industry stakeholders” to comment on the proposal.

Ethiopia is locked in a dispute with Egypt and Sudan over its $4 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which Cairo has said could threaten its main supply of water. The countries failed to strike a deal on the operation of the Grand…

Dancers from Darfur and the Nile states performed on the stage before the signing in Juba.

Working with the opposition under what he called Operation Lighthouse, the minister said weapons would be smuggled in and militias set up. Rights groups say President Mnangagwa's government has become increasingly intolerant of criticism…

Ousted president Omar al-Bashir ruled the country with an iron fist for 30 years until his overthrow in April 2019 after months of youth-led street demonstrations. Among the hundreds of exiles streaming in from around the world since last…

Malnutrition is common in Congolese jails because food portions are allotted based on facilities’ nominal capacity, rather than their real populations, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Provincial governor Theo Ngwabidje Kasi deplored "the tragic deaths of 50 people, most of them young".

“For Sudan to become a democratic country where the rights of all citizens are enshrined, the constitution should be based on the principle of ‘separation of religion and state,’ the documents read.

The men attacked an examination centre housing 35 final year students in Isiro town, the capital of Haut-Uélé province. The students went on sit for the examinations on Monday, according to a priest in the area.

The pact signed in the capital of neighboring South Sudan, Juba, potentially “addresses the root causes of the wars in Sudan,” said Abdallah Adam Khatir, a social studies professor at Zalingi University

The coup has raised the prospects of further political turmoil in Mali which, like other countries in the region, is facing an expanding threat from Islamist militants.

This comes after President Félix Tshisekedi had appealed to the Cooperative for the Development of Congo (Codeco) to stop violence, the agency reports. The spokesman did not say when the ceasefire was agreed.

Rebel soldiers seized Keita and other leaders after a mutiny on Tuesday, dealing another deep blow to a country already struggling with a brutal Islamist insurgency and widespread public discontent over its government.

The Sudanese official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to give details of Pompeo’s visit. Ending the terrorism listing is a top priority for Sudan’s transitional military-civilian ruling council and the government of…

President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, 78, signed a decree for the return of many of his top ministers after forcing them to quit last week over a deepening economic crisis. Teodorin, 52, is the frontrunner to succeed his father, who has…

Looking tired and wearing a surgical mask, Keita resigned in a brief address broadcast on state television hours after troops seized him along with Prime Minister Boubou Cisse and other top officials.

The arrest came after soldiers mutinied at the Kati army base outside of Bamako and rounded up a number of senior civilian and military officials.

A spokesman for the country’s Information Ministry said the attackers, who belonged to the militant group al-Shabab, killed 16 people. The ministry said 205 others were rescued. The director of Aamin Ambulance, a private company that is…

The security measures had helped to stabilise the situation and led to “a cautious calm,” it added. Port Sudan is also used by South Sudan to export oil. Local media reports and activists on social media said the clashes broke out between…

At a meeting of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s politburo last week, Mnangagwa shouted at Vice President Constantino Chiwenga. The president accused his deputy of instigating a plan to use an opposition protest…

The 73-year-old former general and army chief was overthrown in a 2013 rebellion by a coalition of mainly Muslim rebels from the north, plunging the majority Christian nation into a violent civil war and an acute and ongoing humanitarian…

The tally showed the continent had 751,151 cases, 15,721 deaths and 407,461 recoveries. Cases crossed the 500,000 mark on July 8. The virus hit Africa later than other continents and transmission rates are lower than elsewhere. Still, this…

The North African country where dictator Omar al-Bashir was overthrown last year is being run by a power-sharing government of civilian and army figures until elections due in 2022. Last week, Sudan Justice Minister Nasredeen Abdulbari…

The disagreement over a proposal from Tunda’s political allies to give the justice ministry more control over the judiciary highlighted strains in the coalition between Tshisekedi and his long-serving predecessor Joseph Kabila.…

Zindzi Mandela, whose mother was anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, rose to international prominence when she read out Nelson Mandela’s rejection of then-president P.W. Botha’s offer for freedom in 1985. State broadcaster…

The council, comprising military and civilian authorities, approved a series of laws including one "criminalising" the age-old practice known as FGM or genital cutting that "undermines the dignity of women," a statement said. Earlier…

"The majority of the victims were killed using bladed weapons or were shot," it added. Between January 1 last year and January 1 this year, the report documented the killing of 496 civilians -- 142 women, 25 children and 329 men.

The government will immediately start a plan to sell the stake and there are already proposals from various companies, he said.

Early Saturday, Seleshi Bekele, Ethiopia’s water and energy minister, confirmed that the countries had decided during an African Union summit to restart stalled negotiations and finalize an agreement

Statues of Leopold, who ruled over what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo for 23 years until 1908, have been defaced by activists since anti-racism protests against the police killing of black American George Floyd turned global.

The committee seized a bank account of Bashir through which every month millions of U.S. dollars were channeled

Minister Njabulo Nzuza was reportedly hijacked Thursday afternoon immediately he left a shopping centre in Midrand in the central Gauteng province. He was trailed by men in blue VW GTi Golf with blue lights flashing, police said.

Judge Raphael Yanyi "fell ill at around 2 a.m. and was taken to Nganda Hospital Centre. He died as a result of a cardiac arrest," Kinshasa Police Colonel Miguel Bagaya said. The trial, screened live on national TV, centres on Vital…

The deployment was first reported by Bloomberg news terminal last week, in which it cited  at least one MiG 29, according to satellite images released by the U.S. A senior Libyan official had said Haftar received 6 MiG 29s and two Sukhoi…

Glenda Gray, president of the South African Medical Research Council and a member of a virus advisory council appointed by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, told local media on May 16 that some government measures to deal with the outbreak were…

Jean-Marc Kabund has been under fire over claims that he wanted $ 7 million to organize a formal meeting to extend the country's state of emergency during the coronavirus pandemic. He has dismissed the allegation as political witch hunt. 

The explosion occurred on Sunday afternoon as people performed traditional dances in a field near an internally displaced persons camp north of the town. Somalia observed Eid al Fitr on Saturday but festivities continue for three days…