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Africa
Angola proposes new DR Congo ceasefire
Angola has called on the warring sides in eastern DR Congo to respect a ceasefire from next week, as a UN team landed Thursday in a city under the M23 armed group's control for a year.
By AFP
13h ago
The National Office for Risk and Disaster Management (BNRGC) said it had recorded 38 deaths, while six people remained missing and at least 374 were injured.
By AFP
13h ago
By Maryann Muganda
19h ago
By AFP
21h ago
Young Kenyans lured by fake job offers were trafficked to Russia and forcibly conscripted to fight in Ukraine, leaving many traumatised and scarred by a war not their own.
By AFP
23h ago
Sweeping changes to the constitution accepted by the cabinet Tuesday include extending the presidential term to seven years .
By AFP
1d ago
The Kordofan region, where deadly drone strikes have intensified, is currently the fiercest battlefield in the war raging since April 2023 between Sudan's regular army and RSF.
By AFP
1d ago
In Africa, conflict-driven fatalities, displacement and economic destruction have reached staggering levels and are surging.
By James Wanzala
1d ago
A cyclone packing violent winds killed at least 20 people as it struck Madagascar, toppling houses and causing major flooding, the Indian Ocean island's disaster authority said Wednesday.
By AFP
1d ago
Zimbabwe's cabinet on Tuesday approved sweeping changes to the constitution as part of a bid to extend 83-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa's term till 2030, angering opposition figures.
By AFP
1d ago
An internal Sudanese intelligence document reports that a convoy in South Kordofan, publicly described as humanitarian aid, may have included weapons and ammunition.
By Benard Orwongo
2d ago
A medical student has died after clashes erupted between police and students protesting delays in grant payments at a major university in Senegal, the government said on Tuesday.
By AFP
2d ago
Junta-led Burkina Faso's parliament has dissolved all political parties, whose activities have been suspended since the military rulers seized power more than three years ago.
By AFP
2d ago
The atrocities unleashed on Sudan's El-Fasher last October were a "preventable human rights catastrophe", the UN rights chief said Monday, warning they now risked being repeated in Kordofan.
By AFP
3d ago
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