At least 30 people were killed in attacks by armed men on several villages in Nigeria's northwestern state of Sokoto on Saturday, police said. Police in Sokoto said the people killed belonged to a vigilante group in the Tangaza local government area. Prior to the attacks, some members of the vigil
Sudanese paramilitary fighters have taken over the national museum in Khartoum, its deputy director said on Saturday, urging them to protect precious artefacts from the nation's heritage that include ancient mummies. Members of the Rapid Support Forces group that has been fighting the army since m
More than 100,000 people have fled violence in Sudan to neighbouring Chad and the numbers could double in the next three months, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday. The near seven-week conflict has pushed Sudan into a humanitarian crisis and turned one of Africa's greatest cities - the three-p
BRICS foreign ministers on Thursday asserted their bloc's ambition to rival Western powers but their talks in South Africa were overshadowed by questions over whether Russia's president would be arrested if he attended a summit in August. South Africa's foreign minister Naledi Pandor said her coun
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world's toughest anti-LGBTQ laws, including the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", drawing Western condemnation and risking sanctions from aid donors, reports Reuters. Same-sex relations were already illegal in Uganda, as in mor
A group of hackers called Mysterious Team made multiple Senegalese government websites go offline overnight on Friday by hitting them with denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, a government spokesperson said. The group claimed responsibility for the cyber attacks in a series of Twitter posts usi
The US has announced sanctions on the local boss of the Wagner private military group in Mali, Ivan Maslov. The Russian mercenary group could be secretly trying to obtain military equipment for the war in Ukraine through its operations in Mali and other African countries, the US says.
Somalia on Thursday secured 10.5 million U.S. dollars through a trilateral partnership launched in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, to tackle drought and prevent famine in the country. The Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development
The fighting between Sudan's military and a powerful paramilitary force has displaced more than 1.3 million people, the UN migration agency said Wednesday. The International Organization for Migration said the clashes have forced over 1.0 million people to leave their homes to safer areas inside S
Artillery fire could be heard in parts of Khartoum and warplanes flew overhead on Tuesday, residents said, though an internationally monitored ceasefire appeared to have brought some respite from heavy fighting in the Sudanese capital. Night-time airstrikes were reported in at least one area after
At least 18 civilians have been were killed in an attack by armed bandits on a village in Nigeria's central state of Benue, an official said Monday. Scores of residents were also injured in the attack on the Iye village in the Guma local government area of the state on Sunday, said Christopher Wak
Sudan’s Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), a coalition of political parties supporting democratic rule, late on Saturday welcomed a ceasefire agreement between the county’s warring parties. The Sudanese army and rival paramilitary Rapid Support forces signed an agreement on Saturday
Floods have caused almost a quarter of a million people to flee their homes after the Shabelle river in central Somalia broke its banks and submerged the town of Beledweyne, even as the country faces its most severe drought in four decades, according to the government. Aid agencies and scientists
