Africa

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has summoned dozens of senior military commanders to explain recent battlefield defeats against the M23 rebel group in the country’s troubled eastern region. According …

Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud and four opposition leaders have signed a landmark agreement shaping the country’s next electoral process. The deal, reached on August 25, 2025, comes after months …

This Year’s “Global Peace Index” report has been released, and Ethiopia fared poorer than Eritrea in the Index. The study uses about 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators in its study …

After more than two years of brutal conflict, displaced families are beginning to return to Sudan’s capital, Khartoum — a city scarred by war and facing years of costly reconstruction. …

South Africa, home to the world’s largest HIV program, is grappling with the fallout of a $427 million cut in US support, raising fears of rising infections and preventable deaths. …

Kilmar Ábrego García, who previously became a symbol of the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies after being wrongly deported to El Salvador, has again been threatened with removal from the …

Guinea’s military junta has suspended three leading opposition parties, including former President Alpha Condé’s Rally of the Guinean People, just weeks before a controversial constitutional referendum. The three-month suspension also …

The UK government has agreed to pay £2.9 million ($4m) in compensation to more than 7,000 residents of Laikipia, Kenya, following a 2021 wildfire sparked by a British military exercise. …

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s public prosecutor has demanded the death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila, who is being tried in absentia on charges of treason, war crimes, and …

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, 92, is facing a legal challenge to his bid for an eighth term in the October elections. Akere Tabeng Muna, opposition figure and former president of …