Africa

Registration resumes in Mekelle as renewed fighting threatens fragile peace agreement Hundreds of former fighters in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have begun registering for a programme designed to help them...

Fighting between rival jihadist groups affiliated with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State has intensified across the borderlands of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, raising concerns about worsening insecurity in the...

Hundreds of people have gathered in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, waving United States and Somaliland flags after US President Donald Trump described the territory as “a totally different country”...

Mali was hosting 322,584 refugees and asylum seekers as of September 30, 2026, alongside more than 414,000 internally displaced people, highlighting the growing humanitarian pressure facing the West African country....

Sudan’s army chief and de facto leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has ordered an investigation into an airstrike on a gold mining site near the Egyptian border that reportedly killed 72...

Ghana has repatriated 120 Nigerian nationals rescued during an intelligence-led operation targeting suspected cybercrime networks and alleged human trafficking activities, Ghana’s Minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations, Sam George,...

Guinea-Bissau faces growing uncertainty over its planned December elections, as Senegal calls on the country's military rulers to lift restrictions on political and civil activities and create conditions for a...

Mali's army says it has entered the strategic northern city of Kidal after Tuareg separatists announced a withdrawal as government forces advanced towards the city. A Malian military staff officer...

Guinea-Bissau’s military authorities have blocked former President Umaro Sissoco Embaló from returning to the country, saying the security conditions needed to guarantee his safe arrival are not currently in place....

Former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been transferred to a military-run hospital in the Khartoum area for medical treatment following health complications, his lawyer said. Bashir, 82, was moved from...