Category: Rest of Africa

"On March 27, 2022, Malian soldiers and foreign personnel descended in helicopters and opened fire on fleeing residents," the report said. In a roundup of civilians in the following days, hundreds more were shot and thrown in ditches.

Abyei, which lies between Sudan’s states of South Kordofan and Warrap, and Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal states in South Sudan, has been experiencing tensions for 18 years, having failed to conduct a referendum to determine to which country they belong.

Ambassador Reuben Brigety told a media briefing the US believed weapons and ammunition had been laden onto a Russian freighter that docked at a Cape Town naval base in December.

Nearly one month after the eruption of violence that has killed more than 750 people, injured 5,000 and displaced more than 900,000 others, the two sides promised in talks in the Saudi port city Jeddah to protect civilians, but nothing looked set to change immediately.

Britain's highest court ruled Wednesday it was too late for people in Nigeria's Niger delta region to lodge pollution claims against energy giant Shell after a huge oil spill more than one decade ago.

They have limited themselves to one meal a day, hoping their dwindling food supplies will last a month longer.

Rights activists have continued to complain of prison congestion caused by convicts on death row and people awaiting trial.

Witnesses said the army unleashed intense air bombardment in the centre of Khartoum and around the presidential palace. The rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary said the palace, which it claims to control, was hit by an air strike and destroyed. However, an army source...

The visit aimed at discussing the Cape Verde Economy for the 2023 Article IV Consultation and Second Review under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) Arrangement, approved on June 15, 2022.

The latest batch of 136 Nigerians evacuated from Sudan through Port Sudan arrived at the Nnamdi Arzikiwe International Airport in Abuja under close supervision of Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA).