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Sudan’s notorious paramilitary group killed at least 30 people in an attack on Omdurman, the sister city of the capital, Khartoum, the authorities and an activist group said. Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are alleged to have kidnapped dozens of people, including women, from Salha, an area in the...

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have agreed to draft a peace deal by May 2, committing to respect each other’s sovereignty and refraining from providing military support to armed groups. DRC Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner and her Rwandan counterpart Olivier...

Gabon’s constitutional court confirmed that Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Gabon’s interim president who staged a 2023 coup, won the Central African nation’s April 12 presidential election. Oligui Nguema won the election with 58,074 votes, which accounts for 94.85 percent of votes cast...

The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have agreed to pause fighting as they work towards a broader peace deal, according to their joint statement. The truce, declared late on April 23 after a round of negotiations in Qatar’s capital Doha, has...

Pakistan threatened to suspend its participation in all bilateral agreements with India, including the 1972 Simla Agreement, in a retaliatory move after India said it would suspend its own participation in the Indus Water Treaty and close the land border the day before. The Simla Agreement was a...

A court in Ivory Coast ruled that Tidjane Thiam, a former CEO of Credit Suisse, is not eligible to run for president because of his dual Ivorian-French nationality, according to a lawyer representing him. Thiam won his party’s primary on Friday in an uncontested vote and was widely seen as the main...

Mozambique’s security forces carried out a brutal, three-month crackdown on protesters after the country’s election last year, said a leading international rights group, citing local activists who alleged that more than 300 people were killed and more than 3,000 were injured in the unrest. In its...

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has announced the formation of a rival government, two years since the country descended into a brutal war that has left tens of thousands dead and triggered what the United Nations calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The RSF, led by Mohamed...

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has announced that it took control of famine-hit Zamzam camp in the western Darfur region, after two days of heavy shelling and gunfire there and in nearby areas that killed at least 100 people, including children and aid workers. The RSF said in a...

Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup in Gabon in August 2023, won the presidential election with 90.35% of votes cast, according to provisional results, the Central African country's interior minister said. The result cements Nguema's grip on power 19 months after the coup ended more than half a...