While the Sudanese national team is keeping their heads high as they ball at this year’s AFCON, citizens meant to cheer them on are currently being slaughtered by security forces in the country. On Monday, Sudanese security forces opened fire on anti-military protesters, killing 7 and injuring around 100 others. Monday’s deaths push to at […]Read More
No less than 15 people have been killed in two deadly attacks by militia groups in Ituri, a region under siege in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), local sources said on Monday. Militiamen from the armed group Cooperative for the Development of Congo (Codeco) have been accused of being behind the recent attacks. […]Read More
The ongoing conflict between Ethiopia and Tigray has claimed at least 56 internally Displaced Persons after Ethiopian military officers air raided a camp in the Dedebit area of Tigray. In a tweet on Saturday, Getachew Reda, a spokesman for the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) said “another callous drone attack” by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s […]Read More
Over 200 people have died in a retaliation attack by bandits following a military raid of their hideouts in Zamfara State last week. The spokesperson to the minister of humanitarian affairs, Sadiya Umar Farouq said more than 200 bodies were buried, while over 10,000 people have been displaced. The military conducted air attacks on Monday […]Read More
At least six people have reportedly died after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at a restaurant in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern city of Beni. Authorities have accused the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) of Saturday’s attack. The militia is one of the deadliest armed groups in the region and is claimed by […]Read More
America has returned a collection of 921 stolen artefacts to Mali at a ceremony held in the West African nation’s capital on Tuesday. The 921 looted archaeological and ethnographic objects were illegally trafficked in the U.S. and previously listed as replicas. Mali Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga and U.S. Ambassador Dennis Hankins opened carefully packed […]Read More
Twitter has reportedly removed 3,465 accounts used for “state-backed information operations” linked to six countries: China, Mexico, Russia, Tanzania, Uganda and Venezuela. 2,048 of the total accounts deleted were linked to a Chinese Communist Party, reporting the treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang province, according to a statement published on Thursday. Another 112 removed accounts were […]Read More
South Africa says temporary permits of around a quarter of a million Zimbabweans working in the country would not be renewed when their visas expire next month. Some 250,000 Zimbabweans fleeing political and economic crises at home were granted four-year work visas in 2009. The visas have been repeatedly extended, but the government announced there […]Read More
No less than eight people have been killed and 17 injured, including schoolchildren, in a car bombing in Somalia’s capital, officials and witnesses said. The bombing was claimed by the armed group al-Shabab in the early hours of Thursday, who said it intended to strike a United Nations security convoy passing near a school in […]Read More
At least a dozen people have died after armed rebels attack displaced civilians in the northeastern Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a military spokesperson. Jules Ngongo, a spokesperson for Ituri’s military government, told the Reuters news agency that suspected fighters from the Cooperative for the Development of the Congo (CODECO) […]Read More
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