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The UN rights chief voiced alarm Friday at the deteriorating situation in South Sudan, calling for “urgent action” to avert a return to full-scale civil war.”We need urgent action to preserve the peace agreement and prevent fragmentation and cycles of retaliation that could herald a return to all-out civil war,” Volker Turk said in an …

UN urges action to prevent full civil war in S.SudanFri, 27 Feb 2026 12:33:26 GMT Read More »

Al-Qaeda-affiliated JNIM has in recent days claimed to have inflicted heavy losses in Burkina Faso as a surge in deadly jihadist attacks sweeps across the Sahelian state. Burkina Faso, ruled by a military junta since September 2022, has faced more than 10 years of raids by groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, including the …

Deadly jihadist offensive sweeps northern and eastern Burkina FasoFri, 27 Feb 2026 06:48:32 GMT Read More »

Killings of civilians in Sudan’s war more than doubled in 2025 compared with the previous year, the United Nations rights chief said Thursday, warning that thousands more dead are unidentified or remain missing.Since April 2023, Sudan has been engulfed in a conflict between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that has killed tens …

Civilian death toll in Sudan war more than doubled in 2025, UN saysThu, 26 Feb 2026 21:43:00 GMT Read More »

Pirates attacked a group of Ghanaian fishermen off the country’s coast on Thursday, stole their outboard motors and then left them stranded at sea, a lawmaker told AFP.The attack happened in the Gulf of Guinea, a major trade route, particularly for oil and gas, which has long been blighted by maritime insecurity.Joint efforts from coastal …

Pirates attack and abandon Ghanaian fishermen at seaThu, 26 Feb 2026 18:22:08 GMT Read More »

Defending champions India thrashed Zimbabwe by 72 runs in their Super Eights T20 World Cup match on Thursday, a result that guaranteed South Africa a place in the semi-finals.India posted a mammoth 256-4 and then restricted Zimbabwe to 184-6 in Chennai to make their clash with West Indies in Kolkata on Sunday a winner-takes-all decider …

India thrash Zimbabwe in T20 World Cup, S.Africa into semi-finalsThu, 26 Feb 2026 17:34:43 GMT Read More »

From a rise in arrests to online attacks, Senegal has been under an intensified crackdown on same-sex relations in recent weeks, prompting outcry from human rights groups and driving some in the LGBTQ+ community to consider exile. Amplifying the repression, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would double the maximum penalty for same-sex …

‘Public lynching’: Senegal cracks down on LGBTQ+ communityThu, 26 Feb 2026 07:10:16 GMT Read More »

Jeffrey Epstein built close ties with powerful figures in Senegal and Ivory Coast, files released by the US government last month show, detailing the late sex offender’s influence network across Africa. Emails, scheduled meetings, investment projects, and loans reviewed by AFP attest to the disgraced New York financier’s close relationship with Karim Wade, son of former Senegalese …

Epstein files reveal links to cash, women, power in AfricaThu, 26 Feb 2026 04:45:22 GMT Read More »

Zimbabwe’s ban on raw lithium exports is forcing Chinese miners to rethink their strategy, speeding up plans to process the metal locally instead of shipping it to China’s vast rechargeable battery industry.The country is Africa’s largest lithium producer and has one of the world’s largest reserves, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).Zimbabwe already banned …

Export ban sparks rush to process lithium in ZimbabweThu, 26 Feb 2026 03:18:19 GMT Read More »

The soft singing of workers rings out at daybreak in the Congolese village of Romee, whose wooded haven is threatened by a scramble for forest land that has sparked deadly violence.In one of the world’s biggest and most precious forests, these locals have so far escaped the clutches of investors seizing concessions in the Democratic …

DR Congo sanctuary resists bloody forest sell-offThu, 26 Feb 2026 01:28:23 GMT Read More »

When Khalid, Julia and Benjamin won their immigration cases last year, they were all given a similar message by the judge: You can now “can live freely.” “Congratulations.””Welcome to America.”The three are now being held by armed guards in Equatorial Guinea, a small, authoritarian petro-state in Central Africa, after being secretly deported by the United States as …

African migrants won legal protections – then Trump deported themThu, 26 Feb 2026 01:20:39 GMT Read More »