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Human rights group Amnesty International accused the M23 rebels in eastern Congo of killing, torturing, and forcibly disappearing civilian detainees in two rebel-controlled cities. “These acts violate international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes,” Amnesty said in a statement. The...

An international medical charity has warned of a looming “health catastrophe” among South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia, citing surging cholera cases and widespread malnutrition in overcrowded camps near the border. In a statement issued by Doctors Without Borders, also known as Medecins Sans...

Joseph Kabila, former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has attacked the country’s justice system after the Senate voted to lift his immunity, paving the way for him to be prosecuted for alleged treason and war crimes. Kabila gave a livestreamed speech from an undisclosed...

The United States said it would impose sanctions on Sudan after determining that its government used chemical weapons in 2024 during the army's conflict with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a charge the army denied. Measures against Sudan will include limits on U.S. exports and U.S...

Britain signed an agreement handing sovereignty over the contested and strategically located Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a move the government says ensures the future of a U.S.-U.K. military base that is vital to British security. The Indian Ocean archipelago is home to a strategically important...

A suspected militant attack on two villages in Nigeria left at least 57 people dead and at least 70 missing in one of the deadliest incidents in the country’s conflict-ridden northeast this year. Abdulrahman Ibrahim survived Thursday’s attack on two villages in Baga in Borno State and participated...

Hundreds of Rwandan refugees who were living in eastern Congo since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda were repatriated on May 17, the UNHCR said, after Rwandan-backed rebels seized key parts of the region. Most of the refugees were women and children, and 360 of them crossed the border in buses provided...

Chad’s former prime minister and opposition leader Succès Masra was taken into custody by security forces on May 16, in what his party called an “abduction.” Public prosecutor Oumar Mahamat Kedelaye said Masra was arrested in connection with an intercommunal clash in Chad’s southwest province of...

President Donald Trump's senior adviser for Africa said he spoke with the presidents of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo about a draft peace deal this week, as Washington seeks to end a decades-long conflict in the region. The United States is awaiting final feedback due this weekend from...

Mauritania's former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on corruption charges following an appeal to a Nouakchott court by both the state and Aziz's defense against a sentence imposed in 2023. Abdel Aziz led the West African country for a decade after coming to...