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When the United States suddenly moved to dismantle its foreign aid system earlier this year, the UN’s landmine safety and removal project in Nigeria braced for impact.Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and unexploded ordnance killed or injured 418 civilians in northeast Nigeria in 2024, more than double the year prior — but workers knew the severity …

US aid flows to Nigeria anti-landmine efforts – for nowWed, 29 Oct 2025 07:01:59 GMT Read More »

There were few voters at polling stations in Tanzania’s biggest city on Wednesday as the main challengers to President Samia Suluhu Hassan were either jailed or barred from running.The government and police made repeated threats that protests would not be tolerated, and stationed tanks around the commercial capital Dar es Salaam on Wednesday to prevent …

Low turnout as Tanzania votes without an oppositionWed, 29 Oct 2025 06:58:51 GMT Read More »

Tanzania goes to the polls on Wednesday in an election in which the main challengers are either jailed or barred from running, with rights groups decrying a “wave of terror”.President Samia Suluhu Hassan, 65, is determined to cement her position with an emphatic victory that will silence critics within her own party, analysts say.She was …

Tanzania votes but with opposition excludedWed, 29 Oct 2025 03:35:56 GMT Read More »

Cameroon’s government on Tuesday acknowledged that people died during protests against the disputed re-election of 92-year-old President Paul Biya, the world’s oldest head of state, but blamed the opposition leader for the deaths.Four people have been reported killed in the central African nation since demonstrators took to the streets to protest the announcement that Biya, …

Cameroon blames post-vote deaths on opposition leaderTue, 28 Oct 2025 21:12:53 GMT Read More »

Fears mounted in Sudan on Tuesday, three days after paramilitaries seized the key city of El-Fasher, amid reports of mass atrocities and the killing of five Red Crescent volunteers in Kordofan.The capture of El-Fasher, the historic heart of Darfur, has sparked fears of mass killings reminiscent of the region’s darkest days.After an 18-month siege marked …

Fears of mass atrocities after Sudan’s El-Fasher falls to paramilitariesTue, 28 Oct 2025 19:06:05 GMT Read More »

The US consulate in Lagos has revoked the visa of Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate said Tuesday.”I want to assure the consulate… that I’m very content with the revocation of my visa,” Soyinka, a famed playwright and author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, told a news conference.Soyinka previously held permanent …

US revokes visa for Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole SoyinkaTue, 28 Oct 2025 19:04:37 GMT Read More »

The United States consulate in Lagos has revoked the visa of Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate said Tuesday.”I want to assure the consulate… that I’m very content with the revocation of my visa,” Soyinka, a famed playwright and author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, told a news conference.Soyinka previously held …

Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says US visa revokedTue, 28 Oct 2025 17:56:54 GMT Read More »

Zimbabwe civil society and opposition groups on Tuesday denounced as “terrorism” several attacks on events challenging moves by the ruling party to keep President Emmerson Mnangagwa in office until 2030.The ruling Zanu-PF on October 18 announced it would support constitutional changes to allow an extension to Mnangagwa’s term, fuelling anger and fears of deepening authoritarianism.Groups …

Zimbabwe opposition slams attacks on critics of president term extensionTue, 28 Oct 2025 16:02:02 GMT Read More »

The paramilitary capture of El-Fasher, Sudan’s oldest capital and Darfur’s historic heart, sparked fears Tuesday of mass killings reminiscent of the region’s darkest days. After an 18-month siege marked by starvation and bombardment, the city is now under the control of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — descendants of the Janjaweed militias accused of genocide two …

Fears of ethnic cleansing after Sudan’s El-Fasher falls to paramilitariesTue, 28 Oct 2025 15:56:41 GMT Read More »

Reports were mounting on Tuesday of ethnically motivated atrocities in the western Sudanese city of El-Fasher since its capture by paramilitaries, with allies of the army accusing fighters of executing “more than 2,000” civilians.El-Fasher fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after more than 18 months of brutal siege warfare, giving the group control over …

Warnings grow of executions, ethnic cleansing in Sudan’s El-FasherTue, 28 Oct 2025 11:09:59 GMT Read More »