Category: Rest of Africa

The conflict that erupted in April between troops loyal to Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces of General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo has "significant humanitarian, security, economic and political consequences that are a matter of deep concern for the South Sudanese...

Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said the recall of the diplomats was "normal practice", adding the envoys would give a "full briefing" to the government, which will then decide whether it can be of assistance or if a "continued relationship is actually able to be sustained".

The attack took place on Monday as Transport Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga was travelling on a highway south of Johannesburg, police said.

Captain Moussa Dadis Camara escaped from the Central Prison in Conakry on Saturday, after heavily armed men stormed the detention facility located in the heart of the Guinean capital, said Justice Minister Charles Alphonso Wright.  

On Wednesday, Tafadzwa Ngadziore (25), one of the youngest legislators from the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), posted a live video on Facebook showing him being pursued by a man armed with a rifle.

"Six months and six million people forced to move, that's an average of one million per month, it's horrible suffering," said Mamadou Dian Balde, the top regional official for the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR).

"The United States is deeply troubled by reports of an imminent large-scale attack by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on El Fasher, North Darfur, that would subject civilians, including hundreds of thousands of displaced persons -- many of whom only recently fled to El Fasher...

It said Rabat regrets "the inaction" of the international community and the United Nations Security Council's "failure to assume its responsibilities".The statement condemned what it called "the inability of influential countries to put an end to this catastrophic situation".

The two-year conflict in Northern Ethiopia between forces loyal to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) killed half a million people, according to the United States, with all parties accused of grave rights abuses.

The perpetrators arrived at a cemetery in the central city of Kaolack on Saturday evening searching for the grave of a man buried the day before, the public prosecutor said.