took place on Tuesday between 5am and 7am in the region of Benishangul-Gumuz, which borders Sudan and South Africa’s second-most populous nation has been grappling with regular outbreaks of deadly violence since

Post BAMAKO, Mali — After years spent accumulating arms and influence in rural parts of this West African partnership with Russian mercenaries, first with the Wagner Group and now with the Kremlin’s rebranded Africa s growing capacity — and the state’s incapacity in responding effectively,” said Héni Nsaibia, West Africa The war comes home In this usually lively capital city in Mali’s south, many residents were only dimly expand the already massive smuggling networks it uses to move drugs, weapons and cattle across West Africa

’s Amhara region in September 2024, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa Ethiopia’s development partners, as well as African and global human rights bodies, must use their influence

Gambella, Ethiopia Credit: Cultural Survival Genocide Watch: Anuak in Gambella, Ethiopia and Kenyan and South clandestine Nuer organization, the Naath Movement, allegedly has a plan to take over Anuak land in South an independent Naath Nation that would include Gambella, Ethiopia as well as Nuer areas in eastern South The governments of Kenya, South Sudan, and Ethiopia should be alerted about the danger of ethnic conflict

AP Two of her five children died as Pauline Nyaluok navigated her way from war-torn South Sudan to this Unlike other East African nations like Kenya, where refugees are restricted to camps, Uganda in the past Today, more than 200,000 South Sudanese refugees live there, according to the United Nations. Ethnic violence in South Sudan has a long history among its varied groups. South Sudan is the world’s youngest country after gaining independence from Sudan in 2011.

that Khartoum’s regular troops and Arab militia allies have raped many tens of thousands of non Arab/African “[President] Omar al-Bashir told us that we should kill all the Nubas [derogatory racist term for African M., a Masalit [major African tribal group in Darfur] chief of the village of Disa, reported that during rape in Darfur (2012) revealed that 49 percent of girls and women seen by a treatment center in Nyala, South

Executive Summary As weak African states face growing insurgencies, they do what weak states tend to This report examines four cases in sub-Saharan Africa: the Kamajors, who fought in Sierra Leone’s civil The four cases – historical and current cases from West and East Africa – were selected to assess what A.Kamajors in Sierra Leone Over eleven years (1991-2002), one of Africa’s most brutal civil wars unfolded To compensate for its military weakness, the government hired a private South African military company

For over 20 years, kidnappings for ransom have plagued the border regions of Cameroon and the Central African He was held for over a month in the Central African Republic with other Chadian and Cameroonian victims Local complicity "In this border area between Cameroon, Chad, and the Central African Republic, dubbed protecting the population, they rent out their weapons to kidnappers from Chad, Cameroon, the Central African Enough is enough," declared Nangyo, surrounded by about 20 committee members, armed in a forest south

At least a dozen peacekeepers have been injured by explosive devices hit by U.N. convoys heading south denied approval for air support for convoys travelling over some of the most volatile terrain in West Africa With routes to the south under threat from Islamist militants , the mission has explored the possibility Air support was also denied convoys departing Kidal on a 350-kilometre (217-mile) journey south to the

country Many civilians have been killed and others injured during the election period in the Central African Central African armed forces, supported by foreign troops in the presence of MINUSCA, clashed with the Many people have also been displaced in Bangassou, in the south-east, while the supply of essential goods All parties to the conflict, including Central African forces, foreign forces, and armed groups, must " - Abdoulaye Diarra, Amnesty International Central Africa researcher "In a country where conflict

the Islamic State-linked armed group Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jamaa , and by government forces including the South African mercenary group Dyck Advisory Group (DAG).

Ethiopian government and their Eritrean allies since November in a conflict that has rocked the Horn of Africa looting against Eritrean refugees in Tigray are clear war crimes,” said Laetitia Bader, the Horn of Africa Others fled south to two other camps, Adi Harush and Mai Aini.