Malians appear divided over the military junta’s loud call for UN peacekeepers to immediately leave the west African country in the throes of a jihadist insurgency.The foreign minister called Friday for the UN Security Council to withdraw the nearly 15,000 peacekeepers from his country “without delay”, denouncing their “failure” to meet security challengesThe mandate of …
Air strikes killed or wounded more than two dozen civilians in Khartoum Saturday, a citizens’ group said, as medics reported hundreds of wounded fleeing Sudan’s western Darfur region in worsening violence of a two-month war.The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) claimed to have shot down a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) fighter plane. A military source, not …
Militants linked to the Islamic State group massacred at least 37 people and abducted six others in western Uganda, the army said Saturday, in the country’s worst such attack in years.The military said it was pursuing the attackers from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) after they raided a school late Friday near the border of …
Militant attack kills 37 at Ugandan schoolSat, 17 Jun 2023 14:35:28 GMT Read More »
South Africa’s president arrived in Saint Petersburg, Russia on Saturday ahead of talks headed by an African delegation pushing for negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow even as doubts grow they will bear fruit. The African leaders are attempting to make the continent’s issues heard after it has been buffeted by economic headwinds caused by the conflict. President …
Militants linked to the Islamic State group hacked and burned 37 students to death in western Uganda in the country’s worst such attack in over a decade, army and police officials said Saturday.The army said it was pursuing militants from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) after the cross-border raid late Friday on a secondary school …
Death toll from militant attack on school in Uganda hits 37Sat, 17 Jun 2023 11:20:46 GMT Read More »
In war-torn Syria, parents of teenagers missing in a shipwreck off the Greek coast are clinging onto hope their children might be alive, days after the tragedy.A fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized and sank off Greece’s Peloponnese peninsula on Wednesday, killing at least 78 people.While the exact number of passengers on the rusty trawler …
Medics on Saturday said they are overwhelmed by the hundreds of wounded fleeing Sudan’s Darfur region, which has become an increasing focus of global concern more than two months into the country’s war.Residents of the capital Khartoum, hundreds of kilometres (miles) east of Darfur, on Saturday also reported fresh air strikes, gunfire and explosions there …
Medics say overwhelmed by wounded from Sudan’s DarfurSat, 17 Jun 2023 10:43:47 GMT Read More »
Militants linked to the Islamic State group have killed 25 students in western Uganda in the country’s worst such attack in years, police and local officials said Saturday.The army said it was pursuing militants from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) after the cross-border raid late Friday on a secondary school in Kasese district near the …
Twenty-five people including children have died in an overnight “terrorist attack” on a school in western Uganda by the Islamic State-aligned Allied Democratic Forces militia, the national police spokesman said Saturday.Fred Enanga said the ADF, which is based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, attacked a secondary school in Mpondwe late Friday where “a dormitory was …
A high-level African delegation was preparing to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, a day after its calls for talks between Moscow and Kyiv were rebuffed by Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.The diplomatic team had gone to Kyiv on Friday to voice the concerns of a continent that has suffered from the fallout of …
