THE latest temporary ceasefire between Sudan’s rival military factions appears to have brought a lull in the fighting, following battles…
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THE peace of a normally tranquil suburban road near South Africa’s capital, Pretoria, is being shattered by the sound of…
SUSPECTED militants have killed about a dozen villagers and wounded several more in western Burkina Faso, security and local sources…
THIRTY-TWO people – EIGHT children – have been killed in an air strike in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, officials say. Twenty-five…
AT least 25 people have been killed at a school in western Uganda by rebels linked to the Islamic State…
MALI’s foreign minister has called on the UN to withdraw its peacekeeping force from his country “without delay”. Abdoulaye Diop…
A GOVERNOR from Sudan’s Darfur region has been killed hours after accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of committing…
NAMIBIA has put 40 crocodiles up for sale to reduce conflicts between humans and wildlife in the north-eastern regions of…
THE authorities in Egypt have executed a man who had been convicted of killing a fellow university student last year…
FOUR men have been arrested in north-eastern Ghana for their alleged involvement in a viral video in which a woman…
THE voice of the female doctor in war-hit Sudan is shaky. She is leaving a message with BBC Arabic’s mobile…
Eighty members of a Ugandan religious cult who had been convinced to travel to Ethiopia and starve themselves have been…
THREE leaders of Tunisia’s once-dominant Ennahdha party are on a hunger strike to protest their detention under a crackdown against…
AT least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people…
SIX civilians have been killed and 10 injured after al-Shabab militants attacked a beachside hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu,…
FIGHTING between government forces and a rival paramilitary force broke out again on Sunday in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, after…
ROMANIA has recalled its ambassador to Kenya and apologised after he compared Africans to monkeys. Dragos Tigau made the comments…
RESIDENTS say an uneasy calm has returned to Sudan’s capital city, Khartoum, after the country’s warring generals agreed to a…
THE UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says it is suspending some food aid to Ethiopia while it addresses worries that…
SUSPECTED militants have killed at least 27 people in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Local reports say…