Africa
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. ...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 ...














