An attack on a military base in Nigeria’s northeast has claimed the lives of an army general and several soldiers, highlighting the deteriorating security situation in the region.
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The UN has condemned a drone strike on a wedding in Sudan that killed at least 30 people, as the country’s devastating civil war continues to generate one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
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Middle East conflict disruptions are sending shockwaves through Africa’s oil supply chains, with fuel shortages and price rises beginning to bite across the continent.
Fresh fighting between DR Congo’s army and M23 rebels has displaced tens of thousands in North Kivu, pushing civilian populations to a breaking point.
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Nigeria has begun the mass prosecution of over 500 terrorism suspects at the Federal High Court in Abuja — one of West Africa’s largest ever criminal proceedings.
In the mist-shrouded hills of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the cycle of violence that has defined the region for three decades shows no sign of breaking. The M23 rebel movement — a Tutsi-led armed group that claims to fight for the rights of Congolese Tutsis but which Kinshasa and a growing body of international
South Africa’s government has deployed soldiers to some of Cape Town’s most violent townships following a surge in organized crime that has overwhelmed the South African Police Service and left communities living in a state of near-constant terror. The intervention, announced in early April 2026, marks the latest in a long line of ad hoc
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While the world’s attention remains fixed on emerging infectious disease threats, a quieter — and in many ways deadlier — crisis has taken root across the African continent. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the process by which bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites evolve to defeat the drugs designed to kill them, is now responsible for more deaths
