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HEAVY fighting between warring parties has continued in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and other cities ahead of the ceasefire talks…
ONE of Sudan’s most prominent singers, and the country’s biggest female musician, Shaden Gardood, has been killed in crossfire in…
AT least 11 people have been killed in militia clashes in the western Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Saturday,…
SOUTH Africans were left angry and baffled on Friday after the US accused their country of secretly shipping arms to…
KENYAN police have exhumed the highest number of bodies in a single day from a forest in Kilifi, Kenya’s coastal…
SOUTH Africa slammed remarks Thursday by the US ambassador in Pretoria, who accused the country of having covertly provided arms…
TWO babies have been rescued floating near the shores of Lake Kivu days after floods killed more than 400 people…
FEROCIOUS fighting between paramilitary fighters and the military is taking place in the northern suburbs of Sudan’s capital, residents say.…
TANZANIA has opened its first bone marrow transplant centre in the capital, Dodoma. According to the director of Benjamin Mkapa…
TWO visitors and two security guards have been killed in a gun attack near Africa’s oldest synagogue, on the Tunisian…
THE number of people displaced inside Sudan by fighting between rival military factions has more than doubled in the past…
SUDANESE military fighter jets are continuing with air strikes in the capital Khartoum and the adjacent cities of Bahri and…
SOUTHERN African countries have agreed to deploy forces to the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo where dozens of…
A 27-YEAR-OLD electrical engineering student has died trying to fix the power at a hospital affected by the fighting in…
NEARLY 400 bodies have been retrieved following floods and landslides that hit two villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo…
THE authorities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo say the number of people known to have died in severe flooding…
KENYA’s president has appointed a commission of inquiry into the deaths of more than 100 people who were members of…
SAUDI Arabia is to host the first face-to-face talks on Saturday between the warring armies in Sudan, after several ceasefires…
MALI’s military authorities have announced 18 June as the new date for a referendum on a draft constitution. Security forces…