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Paramilitaries seize town as fighting rages in Sudan’s second city
Sudanese paramilitaries on Monday pressed deeper into the former safe haven of Wad Madani, the capital of Al-Jazira state where they also seized the town of Rufaa, witnesses said. It came a day after...
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Last French troops leave Niger
The last French troops deployed in Niger left on Friday, an AFP journalist reported, marking an end to more than a decade of French anti-jihadist operations in west Africa’s Sahel region. “Today’s...
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UN peacekeeping mission in Mali ends
UN peacekeepers are due to finish their withdrawal from Mali on Sunday, after a long-running mission lasting a decade. Minusma – the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission – began in 2013...
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Burundi’s president says homosexuality ‘imported from the West’, calls for...
Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye has called on citizens to stone gay people, escalating a crackdown on sexual minorities in a country where LGBT people already face social ostracism and jail...
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Congo-Démocratique: Chaos in Kinshasa as river rises to near-record level
Floods have wreaked chaos in Kinshasa – the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo – with water pouring into homes and residents navigating submerged roads via canoe. The overflowing River Congo,...
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One Cameroonian peacekeeper killed, five wounded in Central African Republic
The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attack perpetrated on 15 January against the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central...
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Central Africa Communication Ministers Discuss Ways to Stop Hate Speech
Communication ministers from the Economic Community of Central African States, ECCAS, are meeting in Bangui, Central African Republic, this week to map out ways to stop the spread of hate speech....
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Niger revokes military cooperation with US
Niger’s government announced on Saturday that it was breaking off “with immediate effect” its military cooperation agreement with the United States. The declaration came just a day after a senior US...
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Cameroon and Chad government troops free scores of hostages
Troops from Chad and Cameroon have freed scores of civilians who were kidnapped for ransom or to fight with jihadist groups on both sides of the two central African states’ border. Military officials...
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Russian air defense system, trainers arrive in Niger
Russian military instructors have arrived in Niger with an air defence system and other equipment as part of the West African nation’s deepening security ties with Moscow, state television announced...
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Kenya: Helicopter crash kills defense chief and nine senior officers
Kenya’s defence chief and nine other senior military officers died in a helicopter crash on Thursday, President William Ruto announced. “Today at 2:20 pm, our nation suffered a tragic air accident… I...
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US agrees to withdraw troops from key drone base in Niger
The United States agreed Friday to withdraw its more than 1,000 troops from Niger, officials said, upending its posture in West Africa where the country was home to a major drone base. The...
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Malawi’s vice president, former first lady among 10 people killed in plane crash
Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima was killed in a plane crash, the nation’s president said on Tuesday, after searchers located the wreckage of the aircraft in a foggy forest. The military plane...
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Kenyan policeman shoots magistrate in open court
A senior Kenyan police officer has been shot dead after he opened fire at a magistrate in court in the capital, Nairobi. The chief inspector opened fire on Makadara Principal Magistrate Monica Kivuti...
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Thousands of young Kenyans protest tax hikes
Thousands of mostly young demonstrators took to the streets across Kenya on Thursday to protest tax hikes, blowing whistles and chanting slogans in a vivid show of anger by Gen-Z protesters against...
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Liberian president cuts his salary by 40%
Liberia’s President Joseph Boakai has announced that he will slash his salary by 40%. His office said he hoped to set a precedent for “responsible governance” and demonstrate “solidarity” with...
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Obasanjo says Africa is on the edge of chaos
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has warned that the African continent was on the edge of chaos. “All over Africa, we are… sitting on a keg of gunpowder,” he said in a recent interview with...
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Chad: Floods have killed hundreds of people and affected 1.5 million
Every single one of Chad’s provinces have been hit by intense floods brought on by severe rainfall that have left 341 dead and affected a total of 1.5 million inhabitants since July, the UN said on...
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Major jihadist attack in Mali’s capital killed more than 70
A jihadist attack in the Malian capital targeting a military police training camp and airport left more than 70 people dead and 200 wounded, one of the highest tolls suffered by the security forces in...
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8 passport officers arrested in Zimbabwe over dodgy documents issued to 4...
Police have arrested eight employees of the Registrar General’s department at the passport office in Harare after four Cameroonian nationals were intercepted at Beitbridge trying to enter South Africa...
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