By AP French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu held an emergency Cabinet meeting on Monday to assess a weekend of violence and looting during protests against the rising cost of living. More than half-a-million people joined the nationwide demonstrations. But they…
By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies Sudanese miners injured in a deadly airstrike along the border with Egypt have been describing how the incident unfolded. Seventy-two people are believed to have been killed in last week’s attack on Jabal al-Uqaydat, a…
By Al Jazeera Hopes for peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have suffered another setback after former President Joseph Kabila joined a new political-military coalition challenging President Felix Tshisekedi. Announced in Goma on Monday evening, the Front…
By Fatima Edam Hasanat al-Rashid, 48, has lived with diabetes for 15 years, and the three-and-a-half-year civil war between Sudan’s military and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group has worsened her situation. Finding the treatment she needs has become a…
By Al Jazeera and AFP Mali’s military and its Russian paramilitary allies have killed civilians in breach of international law, and opposition armed groups have done likewise, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. Soldiers and fighters “are committing grave laws-of-war violations…
Khanyisile Ngcobo A pastor and his wife have been arrested in South Africa after 200 people, some in chains, were found held at a suspected illegal rehabilitation centre in the north-eastern part of the country. The facility, operated from a…
By AFP The Nigerian Army Chief of Staff visited troops stationed in the northeast of the country on Saturday, a few days after jihadists killed fifteen soldiers in the region. Suspected Islamic State-aligned fighters killed 15 troops and five anti-jihadist…
By Afolake Oyinloye According to the International Monetary Fund’s latest World Economic Outlook published Tuesday, global growth stands at 3.1 percent, while global inflation has spiked to 4.7 percent. An AI boom is lifting technology-exporting economies, but developing and climate-vulnerable…
By Rodrigue Ngassi and Joel Kouam Cameroon’s main opposition MRC elected a new party president on Saturday, Tiriane Balbine Noah. She replaces Maurice Kamto and becomes the first woman to lead the party. Cameroon’s main opposition MRC held its extraordinary…
By AP As Ebola continues to devastate eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, health workers are warning of a less visible crisis: the psychological toll on patients, survivors and families left behind. At a mental health treatment centre in Bunia, one…
