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Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Monday announced a unilateral three-month ceasefire a day after the army dismissed a US truce proposal from international mediators.The RSF, which has been fighting Sudan’s regular army since April 2023, said it was declaring the ceasefire “in response to international efforts, including the initiative of US President Donald Trump …

Sudan’s RSF declares truce after army rejects US planMon, 24 Nov 2025 20:21:41 GMT Read More »

Overwhelmed health workers rushed from patient to patient in makeshift tents in Sudan, trying to help even though they too had barely escaped the fall of El-Fasher to paramilitary forces.”We’re not in good shape,” said Ikhlas Abdallah, a general practitioner who arrived from the western Darfur city now in the hands of the Rapid Support …

Sudan’s displaced and exhausted doctors treat fellow El-Fasher survivorsMon, 24 Nov 2025 17:09:25 GMT Read More »

The abduction of hundreds of Nigerians, including almost 350 schoolchildren in just a matter of days, has reignited a pressing debate about the persistent security crisis gripping the country.A resurgence of mass kidnappings came after US President Donald Trump threatened military action in Nigeria to stop what he calls the killing of Christians by radical …

What’s behind Nigeria’s kidnapping crisis?Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:00:45 GMT Read More »

European and African leaders gathered in Angola Monday for a summit to deepen economic and security ties that also presented the chance for emergency talks on Ukraine.European Union chief Antonio Costa chaired an impromptu EU summit at a Luanda hotel in the morning, as Europe and Kyiv push to review a US proposal to end …

EU, Africa leaders talk trade and minerals in Angola summitMon, 24 Nov 2025 15:54:25 GMT Read More »

Dozens of elderly people who have camped outside South Africa’s Constitutional Court for two years to demand reparations for their suffering under apartheid had hoped the just-ended G20 summit would bring attention to their plight.The group, many aged in their 70s, were among activists at a “People’s Summit” at Johannesburg’s Constitutional Hill that coincided with …

Two-year S.African sit-in for reparations says still ignoredMon, 24 Nov 2025 15:45:19 GMT Read More »

Bobi Wine, the main challenger to President Yoweri Museveni’s 40-year rule in Uganda, drew vast crowds as he brought his campaign to the capital Kampala on Monday ahead of January’s election. Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, is a 43-year-old singer turned politician who has become hugely popular among Ugandan young people but faces a …

Huge crowds for Uganda’s Bobi Wine in capital city campaignMon, 24 Nov 2025 15:31:18 GMT Read More »

European and African leaders gathered in Angola Monday for a summit to deepen economic and security ties, with emergency talks on Ukraine also on the cards.France’s Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Friedrich Merz and Kenya’s William Ruto are among dozens of European Union and African leaders expected in Luanda amid a US-European rift over a Washington plan …

EU, Africa leaders to talk trade and minerals, as Ukraine looms largeMon, 24 Nov 2025 09:36:43 GMT Read More »

Global wildlife talks opened Monday, with votes expected on increased shark protection, a bid to allow limited rhino horn sales and a push to restrict the trade in eels.More than 180 nations are joining conservation experts in Uzbekistan’s Samarkand to discuss dozens of wildlife trade proposals.The meeting brings together signatories to the Convention on International …

Rhino horn sales, shark protection on wildlife talks agendaMon, 24 Nov 2025 09:27:44 GMT Read More »

Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war. Pavements remain scarred by bullet holes and ruined buildings still line many streets, but the city’s cacophony is now one of construction, not destruction.The east African nation saw civil war in the 1990s mutate in the 2000s into an Islamist insurgency that still threatens …

Rising from the ashes: Mogadishu’s building boomMon, 24 Nov 2025 02:51:25 GMT Read More »

At least 50 of the more than 300 children snatched by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria have escaped their captors, a Christian group said on Sunday, as the president announced the rescue of 38 worshippers seized in a separate attack last week.Gunmen on Friday raided St Mary’s co-education school in Niger state, taking …

50 children in Nigeria escape after kidnapping as 38 worshippers rescuedSun, 23 Nov 2025 21:53:14 GMT Read More »