Khartoum, the capital of Sudan and one of the largest cities in Africa, has been reduced to a charred immediately, the fighting ripped across Khartoum and far beyond, in pulsing waves that quickly consumed Africa Now a famine threatens one of Africa’s biggest countries. Now it risks sucking in Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous country. Declan Walsh  is the chief Africa correspondent for The Times based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Sudan’s 14.6 million displaced persons have sought refuge in neighbouring countries such as Chad and South In South Kordofan, girls as young as thirteen are kidnapped for sexual slavery by RSF soldiers , who The African Union and UN should deploy 10,000 troops to re-establish their peacemaking mission in Sudan

After fleeing South Sudan's three-year civil war, Santo and his family have found themselves in the bleak South Sudan is known for its "lost boys," roughly 20,000 orphans who trekked across southern Sudan in -run displacement sites across South Sudan under grim conditions. South Sudanese officials acknowledge the challenges. South Sudan's government says it is committed to ending the children's misery.

scores of education-related attacks by armed separatist groups in the English-speaking North-West and South-West Christopher Anu; the president of the Ambazonia Governing Council, Ayaba Cho Lucas; and the president of the African Human Rights Watch documented the killings of 11 students and 5 teachers in the South-West region. A high school student, who was kidnapped in Bafia, South-West region, on September 22, 2018, along with As a party to African and international human rights law treaties, Cameroon has obligations to protect

, diplomats, journalists, and researchers, to discuss the growing threat of digital interference in Africa and the Ministries of Communication of Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire, along with members from Code for Africa The report emphasizes Senegal’s status as West Africa’s most resilient country against FIMI, with a score with knowledge, collaboration, and rights-based governance, we build a more transparent and resilient Africa Panellists also stressed the urgency of developing an African policy framework for regulating privately

But global notoriety was never much of a problem for Mr. al-Bashir, 75, at home in Sudan, a vast African After the first barrels were pumped in 1999, living standards gradually rose in one of Africa’s most Internally displaced people in South Darfur in 2005. Africa in 2015 was cut short when a court considered whether to arrest him. Sudan lost much of its oil reserves when South Sudan broke away.

has pushed it to engage in peacekeeping and conflict resolution in Mali and more particularly in South Some heavy hitters, Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa and Libya (coincidentally the AU’s architects) are Africa). and West Africa. South Africa’s ruling ANC did the same when it recently made claims of “regime change” to deflect attention

knew were shot to death and burnt alive in the United Nations' Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi, east Africa Congolese-Banyamulenge man, who after more than a decade living in refugee camps now calls Albury in regional New South people a "genocide emergency", and highlighting that they have been targeted by Mai-Mai militias in South

displaced families fleeing on foot with their belongings and livestock near the town of Luvungi in South Congolese government “continued their relentless attacks on densely populated areas of North Kivu and South confirmed to Reuters that clashes were ongoing Friday along the Kaziba, Katogota and Rurambo axis in the South

most important in a generation and critical to restoring democracy and economic growth in the southern African 75-year-old former intelligence chief who replaced Mugabe, has been nominated by the ruling Zimbabwe African Chamisa’s youth will help, he said. million Zimbabweans, about a quarter of the population, live in foreign countries, with the majority in South Africa.

A new investigation found the 1944 Thiaroye attack on ‘unarmed’ African soldiers was ‘premeditated’, credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images) A new report into the 1944 Thiaroye massacre of African Documents of the time show that around 1,300 soldiers from several west African countries, who had been due to be paid a “quarter of the back pay” in mainland France, and “the rest” upon their arrival in Africa until they had been fairly recompensed, “tense” meetings took place between French commanders and the African

Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and world food program in the village of Makunzi Wali, Central African International Committee of the Red Cross warns hate speech promoted on social media in war-torn Central African Jessica Barry is just back from a six month stint as ICRC Coordinator in Central African Republic. Of course, the network is not so extensive in Central African Republic. It is in main towns. The Red Cross official says efforts to achieve peace in the Central African Republic are made more difficult