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A mass grave containing the remains of at least 87 people, including ethnic Masalits, has been found in Sudan's West Darfur, the UN said on Thursday. The UN Human Rights Office said it had "credible information" that Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were responsible for the killings which...

The Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, and his son Muhoozi Kainerugaba have been accused of sponsoring violence and abusing critics in harrowing testimony filed before the international criminal court. The submissions contain detailed allegations of the torture of opposition figures and activists...

Egypt said on Sunday it would host a summit of Sudan's neighbors on July 13 to discuss ways to end a 12-week conflict between rival Sudanese military factions that has triggered a major humanitarian crisis in the region. The summit in Cairo on Thursday aims to "develop effective mechanisms" with...

In Sudan's capital, precious books in a major library have been burned and the national museum has been cut off for weeks by fighting. In Darfur, another museum is at risk from seasonal rains after projectiles punctured the roof. According to a report published last week by Heritage for Peace, a...

At least 13 children have died in recent weeks during a suspected measles outbreak at internal displacement camps in Sudan’s White Nile state, amid conflict between the country’s two warring factions, according to an international medical nongovernmental organization (NGO) Sunday. “The situation is...

Malians approved changes in the constitution in Sunday's referendum with 97 percent of the vote, the West African country's electoral authority said on Friday. Regional powers and Mali's ruling military junta—which mostly organized and backed the referendum—said it will pave the way to elections in...

Ugandan authorities recovered the bodies of 41 people, including 38 students, who were burned, shot, or hacked to death by attackers at a secondary school. At least six people were abducted by the rebels, who fled across the porous border into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after the...

An increasing number of Sudanese civilians fleeing El Geneina, a city in Darfur hit by repeated militia attacks, have been killed or shot at as they tried to escape by foot to Chad since last week, witnesses said. The violence in El Geneina over the past two months has been driven by militias from...

Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebels allegedly executed scores of villagers and militia members between November and April and buried their bodies in mass graves, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday, accusing Rwanda of backing the group. Last year, the United Nations accused the group of...

More than 40 people have been killed in an attack on a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to local officials and activists. Richard Dheda, an official of the local administration for Bahema Badjere in Djugu territory in the...