Media Coverage

Human Rights Watch has accused Russia’s government-controlled paramilitaries of killing eight civilians, including three children, in an air strike in central Mali. In a report published on Friday, the rights watchdog alleged that the attacks by Africa Corps took place on June 15 in the village of...

The government has declared Tuesday, 28th July 2026, a public holiday to enable Ugandans to participate in the Local Council Elections across the country. The announcement was made by the Uganda Media Centre in a press release issued on 24th July 2026 and signed by the Executive Director, Alan...

Chad has joined a growing list of countries as it announced plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The military government declared on Monday that Chad had begun the process to leave the court, which prosecutes war crimes and other violations of humanitarian law and is based...

At least 20 people have been killed in northwest Nigeria after armed gang members attacked villages in Zamfara State, according to the AFP news agency. The attacks come amid increasing violence in northwest and central Nigeria, where armed gangs or bandits have raided villages in recent weeks. They...

International Criminal Court judges reluctantly dropped a case Thursday against a fugitive Sudanese rebel accused of attacking African Union peacekeepers in Darfur nearly 20 years ago, after prosecutors said they could no longer prove their case at trial. Judges were unusually critical of...

A court in the Angolan capital of Luanda in central Africa has jailed two Russian men on charges ranging from espionage to terrorism on Tuesday evening local time. The BBC identified the two as political consultant Igor Ratchin and translator Lev Lakshtanov, who were jailed for 11 and 8 years...

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed genocide in the western city of el-Fasher, carrying out mass killings, gang rapes and deliberate starvation as part of an intentional policy, a United Nations investigation has found. The UN Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan released its...

Drone strikes on civilian vehicles headed to social gatherings in Sudan have killed more than 20 people in recent days, rights groups said, as the use of unmanned aircraft becomes increasingly common in the north eastern African country’s war. A drone strike on a road west of Omdurman on the...

A former rebel fighter now allied with the Sudanese government has proposed a new path forward for ending Sudan’s civil war and establishing a democratic government. Malik Agar Ayyir, chairman of a Sudanese militia group that once fought Khartoum, is now calling for restoring the state’s monopoly on...

The war in Sudan has killed or wounded more than 300 children in the last six months, mostly from drone strikes, the UN children’s agency said Monday. The Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been fighting since April 2023. The war is now concentrated in the Kordofan...