At least 60 people have been killed after a gold mine collapsed in Sudan’s West Kordofan province, with rescue efforts continuing as residents search for survivors and those trapped underground. Medical workers
At least 15 United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in clashes with M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), marking one of the deadliest attacks on UN forces in recent
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In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French military intervention—announced, “We have decided on the coordinated and organized withdrawal
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Tanzania has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the northwest Kagera region, President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced during a press conference in Dodoma on Monday. The announcement was made
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by Sachin Sri Claudia Seymour’s The Myth of International Protection: War and Survival in Congo is a searing indictment of the international community’s pretensions of humanitarianism, a harrowing ethnography that exposes the
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A decade ago, on a road north of Bamako, Mali, the jeep I was driving in had to pull off the road to permit a French military convoy to pass. The convoy
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by Our Special Correspondent in Nairobi Africa’s mission to reclaim its mining independence is a momentous, albeit fraught, endeavour, driven by a legacy of systemic exploitation that spans centuries. The winds of
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by A Special Correspondent from Nairobi Chad’s yesterday announcement of thwarting a “destabilisation attempt” at the presidential complex has raised more questions than answers, especially against the backdrop of growing geopolitical tensions
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A catastrophic fire tore through Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana, one of the largest secondhand clothing markets in the world. The fire, which began on Thursday, decimated up to two-thirds of the
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French troops stationed in Ivory Coast are set to begin their withdrawal this month, marking a significant reduction in France’s military footprint in the region and signaling a shift in Western influence
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Senegal will remove all foreign military forces from its territory starting in 2025, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced in a national address. The move marks a significant shift in the country’s defense
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A new report from the Russian Ministry of Defence claims that the U.S. is significantly increasing its military-biological operations across Africa, raising alarms about the erosion of sovereignty and growing healthcare dependencies.
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The lives of hundreds of thousands in the famine-struck Zamzam camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) hang in the balance as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have intensified attacks on North
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Why did President Joe Biden visit the African nation of Angola in the dwindling hours of his presidency? No other US president has visited this resource-rich southern African nation. Biden was just
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has filed criminal complaints against subsidiaries of Apple in France and Belgium, accusing the tech giant of using minerals allegedly “looted” from conflict regions in
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Nigerian anti-corruption officials have arrested 792 people, including 148 Chinese and 40 Filipinos, in a raid on a luxury office building in Lagos that investigators say was a hub for romance and
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