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The conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo risks escalating into a broader regional war, Burundi’s president said Saturday, as Africa’s top health agency warned the fighting could spark new outbreaks of serious diseases.The Rwanda-backed armed group M23 has vowed to march on the capital Kinshasa after capturing eastern DRC’s biggest city of Goma earlier …

DR Congo conflict risks broader regional war, Burundi warnsSat, 01 Feb 2025 20:33:35 GMT Read More »

Artillery shelling and air strikes killed at least 56 people across greater Khartoum on Saturday, according to a medical source and Sudanese activists.Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a battle for power since April 2023 that has intensified this month with the army fighting to take back …

At least 56 killed as fighting grips greater KhartoumSat, 01 Feb 2025 18:12:46 GMT Read More »

Dozens of migrants left Italian-run facilities in Albania on Saturday after judges in Rome refused to approve their detention, in another setback for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.An Italian boat carrying 43 migrants departed from the Albanian port of Shengjin for the Italian port of Bari, according to an AFP journalist.The migrants arrived in Albania on …

Dozens of migrants leave Albania after Italian court rulingSat, 01 Feb 2025 16:06:44 GMT Read More »

Germany’s former president Horst Koehler, who also once headed the International Monetary Fund and was a strong backer of Africa, died Saturday aged 81 after a brief illness.Koehler, head of state from 2004 to 2010, passed away in Berlin in the early hours, surrounded by his family, the Germany presidency announced.President Frank-Walter Steinmeier led tributes …

Horst Koehler, German ex-president and IMF chief, dead at 81Sat, 01 Feb 2025 14:34:07 GMT Read More »

Germany’s former president Horst Koehler, who served as head of state from 2004 to 2010 and was a strong backer of Africa, died on Saturday aged 81 after a brief illness. “With the death of Horst Koehler, we have lost a highly esteemed and extremely popular person who achieved great things –- for our country and …

German ex-president Horst Koehler dead at 81Sat, 01 Feb 2025 11:51:39 GMT Read More »

Uganda’s president condemned on Saturday a Supreme Court ruling that civilians cannot be tried in military court, while the army said it would continue court martialling ex-presidential candidate Kizza Besigye.Besigye was once President Yoweri Museveni’s trusted personal doctor but has become a government target since joining the opposition 25 years ago and unsuccessfully running for …

Military trial of Uganda opposition leader to continue despite court rulingSat, 01 Feb 2025 11:49:59 GMT Read More »

Mathias Azonnoudo, a 50-year-old farmer in Benin, was taking a break sitting on a large pile of freshly picked cotton, which the government hopes will feed the country’s nascent textile revolution.Azonnoudo and other farmers in the West African country have benefited from a recent uptick in demand for cotton, with the government seeking to launch …

Benin seeks home-grown cotton ‘revolution’Sat, 01 Feb 2025 06:26:41 GMT Read More »

The Rwandan-backed M23 group on Friday advanced south after seizing the biggest city in mineral-rich eastern DR Congo, in violence that according to the United Nations has killed at least 700 people in less than a week.The M23 took Goma, capital of North Kivu province, after intense fighting this week and has pushed further, vowing …

Rwanda-backed M23 pushes on in DR CongoFri, 31 Jan 2025 20:44:10 GMT Read More »

A Swiss court convicted Trafigura and three people linked to the commodities trading firm of corruption in Angola, in what campaigners hailed Friday as a “historic” first in Switzerland.A Trafigura statement expressed disappointment at the ruling and said it was reviewing judgment. The lawyer for one former director with the company said he would appeal …

Swiss court convicts Trafigura of corruption in AngolaFri, 31 Jan 2025 20:06:28 GMT Read More »

Wearing T-shirts and flip-flops, scores of young men lined up outside a stadium in eastern DR Congo on Friday, ready to take on the latest armed group to unleash bloodshed and terror in this violence-scarred, mineral-rich corner of Africa.”I am ready to die for my country,” said Juvenal Bahati Muhigirwa Ndagano as he waited to …

Volunteers in east DRC line up to join fight against M23Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:39:59 GMT Read More »