Media Coverage

South Sudan has started holding a trial for First Vice President Riek Machar, who has been sacked by his decades-long rival, President Salva Kiir, and charged with murder, treason, and crimes against humanity in relation to rebellion and an attack by a militia linked with ethnic tensions. Earlier...

The criminal trial of South Sudan’s suspended vice president began in the capital Monday as Riek Machar appeared in a cage alongside his co-defendants. President Salva Kiir suspended Machar as his deputy earlier this month after justice authorities filed criminal charges for Machar’s alleged role in...

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed 75 people in a drone strike that hit a mosque at a camp for displaced people near the western city of El-Fasher on Friday, first responders said. The RSF conducted their strike as they make gains in their push to capture Darfur's last army-held...

United Nations investigators have accused South Sudanese authorities of plundering one of the world’s youngest and most impoverished nations’ wealth of billions of dollars in public funds stolen as the majority of the country deals with a deepening food crisis. In a report made public on Tuesday...

An ambush by armed men in a flashpoint region in military-run Niger last week killed at least 14 soldiers, the country’s defense minister said in a statement, the latest in escalating militant attacks in the West African nation. The attack took place in the hotspot Tillabéri region on Wednesday...

Riek Machar, South Sudan’s first vice president, has been charged with murder, treason, and crimes against humanity. The charges stem from his alleged involvement in attacks by a militia against federal forces in March, the justice minister announced on Thursday. South Sudan’s government claims the...

The death toll from two attacks on civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by an Islamic State-affiliated rebel group has risen to 89, Congolese authorities said. Officials said late Tuesday that 71 people were killed at a funeral in Nyoto on Monday, and 18 others were killed in Beni...

Unarmed protesters in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who accused a military officer of supporting Rwanda-backed rebels became the targets of gunfire Monday that left at least three people dead, witnesses and the regional governor said. Witnesses belonging to a militia and a civil society...

Boko Haram militants killed dozens of people in a nighttime assault on a village in northeastern Nigeria that is home to residents who had recently returned from a camp for internally displaced persons, authorities said. The attack on Darul Jamal in the Bama local government area took place late...

Gross rights violations, possibly including war crimes and crimes against humanity, may have been committed by the Rwanda-backed M23 militia and the Congolese military and its affiliates in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to United Nations investigators. A fact-finding mission...