Category: Rest of Africa

“The pledging conference will be held on June 19,” the official Saudi Press Agency said, citing the foreign ministry and adding that it would be jointly led with Qatar, Egypt, Germany and the European Union, as well as UN agencies.

It is a rare offer of aid from a developing country battling its own crises.

"I was sure we were about to die," she told AFP, recounting how she, her younger sister and two other women, one with an infant daughter, were all sexually violated.

Four senior members of the US Congress across party lines asked whether South Africa should remain in the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa), which offers duty-free access into the world's largest economy for Sub Saharan African countries that meet democratic criteria.

This week, The New Humanitarian revealed officials of the World Food Programme (WFP) had quit their jobs, days before an official tripartite probe into the theft of food meant for the displaced was to publish findings.

"Eritrea resumed its activity in Igad and took its seat at a summit organized by the seven-nation bloc in Djibouti on Monday," Meskel said on Twitter.

Ndi had been a frequent loser in elections that followed the country’s controversial 1992 polls. In fact, Cameroonians routinely nicknamed him the ‘Odinga’ of Cameroon, relating his political misfortunes with that of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga.

The Rapid Support Forces, led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (called Hemeti), are in conflict with the Sudanese Armed Forces, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s de facto head of state.

Pretoria’s Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni made it clear that South Africa is not planning to act on the arrest warrant issued by International Criminal Court (ICC) to put President Putin behind bars should he arrive in the southern African country later in the...

"Representatives of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) agreed to a 24-hour countrywide ceasefire beginning on June 10 at 6:00 am (0400 GMT)," said a joint statement from the mediators released by the Saudi foreign ministry on Friday.