Central African Republic presidentFaustin Archange Touadera said Saturday he will stand for a third term in December’s elections.”To the wishes of the United Hearts Movement (MCU) for me to invest myself as a candidate in the December 2025 presidential elections I clearly respond yes,” Touadera, 68, said to a gathering of party members in the …
Former Democratic Republic of Congo leader Joseph Kabila went on trial in absentia Friday on charges including treason over alleged support for Rwanda-backed militants, an AFP reporter at the court said.Kabila, who has lived outside the DRC for two years, stands accused at a military court of plotting to overthrow the government of President Felix …
DR Congo tries ex-leader Kabila for treason in absentiaFri, 25 Jul 2025 18:00:45 GMT Read More »
More than 1.3 million people who fled the fighting in Sudan have headed home, the United Nations said Friday, pleading for greater international aid to help returnees rebuild shattered lives.Over a million internally displaced people (IDPs) have returned to their homes in recent months, UN agencies said.A further 320,000 refugees have crossed back into Sudan …
More than 1.3 million return to homes in Sudan: UNFri, 25 Jul 2025 15:24:14 GMT Read More »
Faced with a lack of running water, unsanitary conditions and poverty, the Kinshasa neighbourhood of Pakadjuma has struggled to end a cholera epidemic that has claimed hundreds of lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this year. Some 20 African countries have been tackling outbreaks of the severe intestinal infection since the start of the …
Kinshasa slum battles deadly cholera outbreakFri, 25 Jul 2025 15:22:54 GMT Read More »
Democratic Republic of Congo’s ex-leader Joseph Kabila went on trial in absentia Friday on charges including treason over alleged support for Rwanda-backed militants, an AFP reporter at the court said.He stands accused at a military court in Kinshasa of plotting to overthrow the government of President Felix Tshisekedi.He also faces charges including homicide, torture and …
DR Congo ex-leader Kabila goes on trial in absentiaFri, 25 Jul 2025 15:21:22 GMT Read More »
The Easter period usually offers a rare respite in Gedeb, in Ethiopia’s deeply troubled north, but on April 17 death rained from the skies in this sleepy town caught up in a war between rebels and the army.On this important holiday for Ethiopian Orthodox and Protestant Christians, many families had gathered in the morning to …
On a quiet November night in 2022, DJ Sumbody — a rising star in South Africa’s music scene — was gunned down in a hail of bullets while heading home. Then in April 2024, engineer Armand Swart was executed in a similar shooting after his company flagged a suspicious government tender in which prices had been …
S.African DJ’s murder exposes nexus between crime and powerFri, 25 Jul 2025 06:29:00 GMT Read More »
The International Criminal Court Thursday convicted a former top Central African Republic football official and a militiaman nicknamed Rambo for war crimes committed during the country’s civil war in 2013 and 2014.Ex-sports minister Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona was a senior leader of mainly Christian militias as the country slid into civil war, while Alfred Yekatom, a former …
ICC convicts pair over Central Africa war crimesThu, 24 Jul 2025 18:05:28 GMT Read More »
President Mohamed Bazoum has been languishing for two years along with his wife in Niger’s presidential palace since his ouster by a junta, which is using them as human shields to avert foreign military intervention to free them, according to the couple’s lawyers. They are only allowed medical visits. Their lawyers say they have exhausted …
‘Human shield’: Niger’s ousted president held by juntaThu, 24 Jul 2025 14:37:10 GMT Read More »
Nigerian troops killed at least 95 members of an armed criminal gang in a shootout and airstrikes earlier this week, according to a situation report shared with the UN and seen by AFP on Thursday.Armed gangs known as “bandits” have taken root across Nigeria’s rural hinterlands amid poverty and government neglect. They raid, loot and …
Troops kill at least 95 ‘bandits’ in northwest NigeriaThu, 24 Jul 2025 11:35:14 GMT Read More »
