Category: Rest of Africa

Constitutionally, the terms of office for elected officials, including for President Mnangagwa, end in August.

Said is one of dozens of depositors who have queued at a branch of the Bank of Khartoum in Madani, a city about 160 kilometres (100 miles) southeast of the capital, to recover their savings.

In a decree aired by the state-run news agencies, al-Burhan said Hemedti will no longer be deputy head of Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) as the ruling junta is known. He named Malik Agar to the position of deputy president of the TSC, effective immediately,...

This week, deaths rose to over 1,000 people, 200,000 people forced to flee to neighbouring countries and 700,000 others displaced internally, triggering a humanitarian crisis that threatens to destabilise the region, according to the UN.

For the past month, two rival generals have fought for control of the country in a war that has spread chaos, claimed at least 1,000 lives and displaced nearly a million people.

A total of 4,270 inmates, mostly men, were let out, according to the African country's correctional service, which described the reprieve as a "noble gesture" by the president.

While the RSF dominates the capital on the ground and the army conducts frequent airstrikes, the witnesses said police had simply vanished from the streets when the fighting started in Khartoum on April 15.

“Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have agreed to receive the mission and the African heads of state in both Moscow and Kyiv,” Ramaphosa said.

But the biggest question by Friday was whether such a deal would hold, given the many broken ceasefires that have unveiled broken chains of command within the ranks of fighting sides.

On Thursday, Saudi Arabia-led mediation saw the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) sign the first deal since the war began. But it was labelled as a “commitment to protect civilians of Sudan,” focusing on civilian safety rather than a ceasefire.Whether...