Media Coverage

A marching brass band, a troupe of skydivers and colorful mass displays set a celebratory tone for President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s independence address to the people of Zimbabwe. For the first time since independence in 1980, the celebrations were held outside the capital, Harare, in a bid to be...

Referencing the Tigray crisis in Ethiopia and the war in Ukraine, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the world ‘is not treating the human race the same way.’ Tedros, who is from Tigray, said since a truce was declared in the besieged northern region of Ethiopia three weeks ago, about 2,000 trucks...

The EU will halt military training missions in Mali but will keep a presence in the Sahel, foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday, citing concerns over "interference" and civilian killings committed by Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was...

A UN envoy on Thursday demanded access to the Malian village of Moura, site of an alleged massacre last month by local forces and suspected Russian fighters. The UN's peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, was able to fly over the site on April 3. But its envoy for the Sahel nation, El-Ghassim Wane...

The parliament of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has voted to remove the economy minister, Jean-Marie Kalumba, from his post. A Wednesday motion blamed Kalumba for the soaring prices of basic goods and mismanagement of the fishing industry. It laid out a raft of complaints, including a...

Peace talks in the Central African Republic (CAR), where civil war has raged since 2013, have concluded without any concrete progress. The talks, which had ended on Sunday, resumed on Monday—but no rebel groups were invited and the opposition equally boycotted them. In late 2020, President Faustin...

Some 7,000 members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram have surrendered in northeast Nigeria in the past week, according to local media reports. On Wednesday, the News Agency of Nigeria quoted Major General Christopher Musa, a top commander in the region, as saying that...

Mali's ruling military junta will suspend broadcasts by French state-funded international news outlets RFI and France 24, accusing them of reporting what it called false allegations of army abuses, in an unprecedented clamp down on foreign media. The allegations were made by the head of the United...

Opposition leaders and commentators in Rwanda are being persecuted by the authorities for “their speech and opinions,” intensifying a culture of intolerance toward dissent, a human rights group has said. In a damning report published on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said it had monitored court...

The Chadian authorities on Monday handed over a former Central African Republic (CAR) militia leader to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the Hague-based court said. Maxime Jeoffroy Eli Mokom Gawaka is suspected of crimes committed in 2013...