Africa
Streets deserted in Guinea-Bissau capital after military takeover
Streets were nearly deserted Thursday in the capital of Guinea-Bissau, with the announcement of election results thwarted by the military seizing power, ...Twenty-four Nigerian schoolgirls released over a week after abduction
By TUNDE OMOLEHIN, OPE ADETAYO and MARK BANCHEREAU, Associated Press All 24 schoolgirls held by assailants following a mass abduction last week ...Around 30 people killed in Congo copper mine incident, officials say
Around 30 people were killed at a semi-industrial copper mine in southeastern Congo on Saturday after a bridge collapsed, the country’s artisanal ...Paramilitary force pushes east in new escalation of Sudan’s war
By Khalid Abdelaziz, Eltayeb Siddig and Nafisa Eltahir Reuters The paramilitary force battling the army in Sudan’s civil war is shifting its ...42 migrants presumed dead after boat capsizes off Libyan coast
By Jana Choukeir and Ahmed Elumami Reuters At least 42 migrants are missing and presumed dead after a rubber boat capsized off ...Women in Darfur report rape, lost children amid Sudan violence, UN says
By Mike Heuer UPI Women fleeing El Fasher in western Sudan are subjected to rape, starvation and deadly bombing, the United Nations ...Sudan’s RSF paramilitaries agree humanitarian ceasefire
By Fatma Khaled, Associated Press The Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that has been at war with the Sudanese military for ...Hunger monitor confirms famine in Darfur’s al-Fashir and one other city
By Nafisa Eltahir Reuters A global hunger monitor on Monday confirmed famine conditions in al-Fashir, the Sudanese city taken by the paramilitary ...Families separated, children killed as survivors flee Sudan’s ‘apocalyptic’ El-Fasher
Survivors fleeing the Sudanese city of El-Fasher told AFP on Saturday that paramilitary fighters separated families and killed children in front of ...Hundreds feared dead in Tanzania crackdown on election protests
Tanzania’s main opposition party said on Friday hundreds of people had been killed in protests over elections this week, as the U.N. ...














