Africa
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. ...New protests in Tanzania’s main city after chaotic election
Police in Tanzania’s main city of Dar es Salaam fired gunshots and teargas on Thursday to disperse protesters who returned to the ...Sudanese force’s capture of Darfur city could entrench country’s split
By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir Reuters A Sudanese paramilitary force is battling the last pockets of resistance in a Darfur city ...Africa’s ageing presidents govern world’s youngest populations
The presidents of Cameroon and Ivory Coast, 92 and 83 respectively, are each seeking to extend decades of rule, reflecting a trend ...Khartoum’s shattered factories pick up the pieces as war rages
By Eltayeb Siddig Reuters In the heart of Khartoum state’s largest industrial zone, an engineer bends over a broken machine with a ...General strike, protests paralyse Tunisia’s Gabes over pollution crisis
By Tarek Amara Reuters A general strike and tens of thousands of protesters brought the southern Tunisian city of Gabes to a ...Ivory Coast town rocked by massacre uses marriages to make peace
By Loucoumane Coulibaly Reuters In a town in Ivory Coast torn apart by election violence and mass killings more than a decade ...Madagascar coup leader Randrianirina sworn in as president
By Lovasoa Rabary Reuters Madagascar’s coup leader Colonel Michael Randrianirina was sworn in as president on Friday, after the military took power in the ...














