Africa
Kenya’s violence epidemic: women train to fight back
By Sonia Rao Reuters From the young woman brutally murdered and dismembered in a short-term rental apartment to the Olympic runner set ...Rwandan-backed rebels enter Congo’s Goma in major escalation
By Arlette Bashizi, Djaffar Al-Katanty, Yassin Kombi and Stanis Bujakera Reuters Rwandan-backed rebels marched into eastern Congo’s largest city Goma on Monday, ...Islamist militants kill at least 20 Nigerian troops
By Ahmed Kingimi Reuters Suspected Islamist fighters killed at least 20 Nigerian soldiers, including a commanding officer, after attacking an army base ...Sudanese army claims major victory in Khartoum; RSF disputes
The Sudanese army has broken a siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of its command centre in central Khartoum, the army ...Thousands uprooted as Congo M23 rebels near Goma in major advance
By Sonia Rolley Reuters Laden with just the possessions they can carry, thousands of displaced people have reached the outskirts of the ...Death toll in South Africa’s mine siege rises to 78
South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...Militants kill at least 40 farmers in Nigeria’s Borno state
By Ahmed Kingimi Reuters Suspected Islamist militants killed 40 farmers in an attack on the Dumba community in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State ...Sudan’s military retakes a strategic city from RSF rebels, dealing them a major blow
BY SAMY MAGDY, Associated Press Sudan’s military and its allies have taken back a strategic city from the rebel Rapid Support Forces, ...Benin army suffers heavy losses in northern attack
By Pulcherie Adjoha Reuters Benin’s armed forces have suffered heavy losses in an attack on one of their most well-equipped positions in ...Mali rebels say army, Russian fighters killed nine civilians in car attack
Nine civilians including women and children were killed in an attack on a vehicle in Mali’s Segou region last week, a civil ...