Category: Rest of Africa

Speaking to the Portfolio Committee on Tuesday, Mr Motsoaledi insisted that he wanted to dismiss the public notion that Bester and Magudumana were repatriated from Tanzania in great comfort and luxury.

And so far, Igad, the AU and leaders from Africa are urging the parties to lay down the arms and negotiate ‘pertinent issues’, according to a statement from the South Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

The violence erupted Saturday after weeks of power struggles between the two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup, Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum Saturday as paramilitaries and the regular army traded attacks on each other's bases, days after the army warned the country was at a "dangerous" turning point.

The Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) is already somewhat professional, with an established chain of command and adequate equipment. But the controversy is related to Abiy’s call to demobilise all regional militia, some of which allied with the ENDF in the recent war in Tigray.

A rapist and murderer who broke out of jail and left a burnt corpse in his cell appeared in a South African court on Friday, a day after being flown back from Tanzania.

Friday marked the ninth year since the schoolgirls were abducted on April 14, 2014 from their dormitories.

The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said Chad was hosting the biggest refugee population in West and Central Africa, with the numbers rising due to unrest in neighbouring Sudan.

While the Algerian government said the law is key to ensuring the free exercise of media activity under legal controls, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said the law included ‘negative chapters’ that constitute a violation of press freedom.

A severe drought in North Africa has left Tunisian farmers bracing for a catastrophically poor harvest, imperilling food security in the cash-strapped country.