Category: Rest of Africa

In an Ethiopia emergency shelter cluster update released on Monday, the UN refugee agency said in the past 10 months, insecurity, intercommunal conflict and climatic shocks continued to be the main drivers of humanitarian needs in the country.

Here are five things to know about the country founded by freed American slaves, which is still recovering from 14 years of civil war and an Ebola epidemic.

The suggestions emerged from an October meeting of the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC), but whose details were publicised this week. And the continental organ responsible for peace and stability says that will require better governance including total rejection of coups and better...

Lt-Gen al-Burhan arrived in Riyadh for the first time since the outbreak of the war in April between Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces.

Experts, and sources from both camps; the Sudan Armed Forces (Saf) and the Rapid Support Forces, say the war that erupted on April 15 has helped the RSF maintain an illegal line of revenues that trickle down to support militias in far-flung regions. Stopping the...

Aerial surveillance footage taken on Tuesday and Wednesday identified "terrorists in possession of two armored vehicles abandoned by" the UN force Minusma, the army said on social networks.

"The bodies of people in military uniforms are lying in the streets of the city centre after the fighting yesterday," a witness in Omdurman, located across the Nile River from Khartoum, told AFP by telephone.

The outcome of the new round of Jeddah talks in Saudi Arabia, mediated by the Saudi Kingdom, the US and regional bloc Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) means there is no guarantee that the warring sides; Sudan Armed Forces (Saf) and the Rapid Support Forces...

The story began more than a decade ago, during the administration of President Umar Yar'Adua, who died in 2010. But the story of the murkiness surrounding the controversial contract only came to the fore last week.

But such efforts have been dragged by renewed violence in Amhara region seeing the government impose a state of emergency and battle local militia groups that turned on the national army.