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
A Kenyan parliamentary inquiry has accused British soldiers stationed in the country of engaging in widespread sexual misconduct and causing environmental damage, warning that the behaviour of the forces has led to
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Guinea-Bissau’s military authorities have imposed an outright ban on protests, strikes and any activity deemed a threat to “peace and stability,” escalating their control just hours before a high-level delegation from West
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It was a rare stroke of luck for Somali and US forces locked in a grinding war against the Islamic State’s most dangerous surviving branch. A captured ISIS fighter, exhausted and bleeding
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Ximdo is a people’s peace movement that has been growing in the war- and famine-plagued Horn of Africa for several months now. The word comes from the Tigrinya language, used by Eritreans
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The African Development Fund (ADF) has approved a $14.64 million grant to scale up climate resilience initiatives across the Sahel, the African Development Bank Group announced following the Board’s decision in Abidjan
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), where it appeared as part of the institute’s ongoing analysis of geopolitical developments in the Red Sea
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Down a broken street in Kinshasa, behind an unmarked metal door and a courtyard shaded by a mango tree, sits a small house where a group of traumatised women hide from the
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The Sahel region has faced multiple crises for decades, but it is far from a weakened state slipping into further turmoil. Terror groups are resurging and establishing the Sahel as their base.
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In a devastating attack on St Mary’s Catholic School in north-central Nigeria’s Niger State, armed men abducted 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers on Friday, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) reported. The
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Niger has marked a transformative leap in its digital future with the provisional handover of more than 1,000 kilometers of fibre-optic cable under the Trans-Sahara Optical Fibre Backbone Project, financed by the
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The African Energy Chamber used the Wider African Energy Summit in Aberdeen to deliver a pointed message: Africa’s oil and gas future demands realism, collaboration, and renewed UK engagement. Speaking at the
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GE Vernova is spotlighting a landmark achievement in regional energy integration as it participates in the B20 South Africa Energy Mix & Just Transition Task Force. The company supported the West African
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The Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebel group have signed a framework agreement in Doha, marking the most significant step yet toward securing a peace deal after months of escalating
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More than one-fifth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s population — nearly 25 million people — are experiencing severe acute food insecurity, the United Nations warned on Wednesday. UN spokesperson Stéphane
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In early November, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the ‘horrifying crisis in Sudan, which is spiralling out of control’. He urged the warring parties to ‘bring an end to this nightmare of
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