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West African leaders are holding an emergency summit in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, in response to a recent spate of coups in the region. The talks on Thursday were initiated after Burkina Faso on January 24 became the third member of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)...

Sudanese security forces on Sunday killed one protester and wounded dozens in the last pro-democracy demonstrations in January, three months after the coup. The anti-coup protests are spearheaded by the Resistance Committees which call for the return of the armed forces to their barracks and to...

Burkina Faso’s military government said it has restored the constitution a week after taking power and has appointed the coup’s leader as head of state for a transitional period. The move came shortly after the African Union suspended Burkina Faso for the takeover, and diplomats from West Africa and...

At least 32 people, including children, have been killed during armed raids in South Sudan’s eastern Jonglei state, according to the United Nations. The attacks on the villages of Dungrut and Machined on Sunday sent civilians from the Dinka Bor community fleeing as armed youths from the Murle ethnic...

The military in Burkina Faso says it has seized power and overthrown President Roch Kaboré. The announcement was made on state television by an army officer, who cited the deteriorating security situation as the reason for the military takeover. Mr Kaboré had faced growing discontent over his...

A prominent Sudanese pro-democracy group has conditionally accepted the UN’s offer to broker an end to political deadlock following the October military coup. Jaafar Hassan, a spokesperson for the Central Council for the Forces of Freedom and Change, said in a press statement on Sunday that the...

Protest organizers in Sudan's capital Khartoum announced two days of strikes and civil disobedience after security forces used gunfire and teargas on Monday to disperse demonstrations. The violence was against a coup and medics said seven people had been killed. The toll marked one of the bloodiest...

The United Nations consultations with Sudanese civil society groups began on Monday. The goal of these meetings is to direct negotiations to resolve the country’s political crisis after an October coup. The military takeover derailed a transition toward elections in which the army had agreed to...

South Africa has bid farewell to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the last great hero of the struggle against apartheid. The requiem mass was held on January 1 at Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral where, for years, Tutu used the pulpit to rail against a brutal white minority regime. Tutu died last Sunday...

Ugandan troops have crossed into the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of a joint operation against the Allied Democratic Forces, an armed group that both neighboring countries accuse of massacring civilians. Resident Julien Ngandayabo told Reuters, "There is a real panic here at home...