A newly formed Tigrayan rebel faction has emerged as a serious threat to Ethiopia’s fragile northern peace, according to regional security analysts and reporting from the International Crisis Group. The group has carried out cross-border raids in the Afar region over the past four months, engaging in firefights with forces loyal to the Tigray People’s […]
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Sudan has formally recalled its ambassador to Ethiopia for consultations, diplomatic sources confirmed on May 5, 2026, after Khartoum accused Addis Ababa of allowing its territory to be used in a drone attack targeting Sudan’s main international airport. The attack struck Khartoum International Airport in late April, causing material damage to runway infrastructure and temporarily
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A foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in northeastern Botswana has cost the country its FMD-free zone status, threatening beef exports and the livelihoods of thousands of communal cattle farmers.
Kenya and Tanzania signed eight bilateral agreements in Dodoma covering trade, infrastructure, and energy, in a landmark diplomatic engagement that signals a new era of East African integration.
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Mali’s military president Assimi Goïta has assumed the defence minister role after a jihadist and separatist offensive killed the previous minister Sadio Camara and overran a key northern base.
Nigeria has begun evacuating 130 citizens from South Africa as xenophobic violence sweeps through Johannesburg townships. Several people are dead and hundreds of foreign-owned businesses destroyed.
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The MV Hondius has been stranded off Praia, Cape Verde, after an outbreak killed three passengers. The WHO has deployed an emergency team as the virus spreads unusually between humans.
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King Mohammed VI of Morocco has appointed his son and heir, Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan, to a senior coordinating role within the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces — a move that analysts are reading as the clearest signal yet that the young prince is being groomed for eventual succession to the throne. The May 2
KoBold Metals, the Silicon Valley-backed mining company supported by billionaires including Bill Gates and Sam Altman, has officially broken ground on the Mingomba copper mine in Zambia — a $2.3 billion project that will become the largest copper mine in the country’s history. The groundbreaking ceremony, held in early May 2026 near Zambia’s border with
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Below-average rainfall across most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions is threatening the development of the mid-crop due to be harvested from July to August, raising fresh concerns about supply tightness in the world’s largest cocoa-producing nation. Farmers in multiple regions reported that insufficient moisture — combined with persistently high temperatures — is already affecting developing
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Uganda’s foreign exchange reserves have jumped by nearly 70 percent over the past year, fueled by heavy foreign direct investment inflows into the country’s burgeoning oil sector, according to new data from the Bank of Uganda. The surge, reported for the 12 months ending January 2026, saw Uganda’s foreign reserves climb to $5.6 billion —
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Civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are enduring a surge of horrific abuses at the hands of Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) fighters — abuses that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to a sweeping new report from Amnesty International. The May 2026 report, titled “I’d Never Seen So Many Bodies:
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