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Pope Francis has ended his peace mission to South Sudan with an impassioned plea urging the people to resist the “venom of hatred” to achieve the peace, forgiveness and prosperity that have eluded them through years of bloody ethnic conflicts. Reconciliation and mutual forgiveness for past wrongs — these were the main themes woven in […]
Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam, an Eritrean fugitive accused of being “the world’s most wanted” people smuggler has been arrested in Sudan in coordination with United Arab Emirates authorities, Interpol announced. The Eritrean national, on Interpol’s radar since 2019, has been accused of being a smuggling kingpin, running a camp in Libya where hundreds of East African […]
Sudan’s ruling generals and the main pro-democracy group have inked a framework deal until elections but key dissenters have stayed out of the agreement. The deal, the first of at least two planned accords, that was signed this Monday, pledges to establish a new, civilian-led transitional government to guide the country to elections and offers […]
A state of emergency has been declared in Sudan’s Central Darfur state after gunmen opened fire on members of a reconciliation committee tasked with settling an inter-communal dispute, killing 24 people. Central Darfur Governor Saad Adam Babiker on Sunday (13 November) issued an order declaring a state of emergency in all parts of Central Darfur […]
Launched in 2019 by the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and its partners, the Desert to Power initiative to increase solar generation capacity to provide 250 million people with electricity access across Africa’s Sahel region for socio-economic development continues to attract financial support from around the world. The Desert to Power initiative is designed to […]
One protester was reportedly killed during demonstrations that were held in cities across Sudan Tuesday (25 October) to mark one year of military rule after security forces used tear gas on the crowds. 25 October 2022 was the first anniversary of the military’s arrest of the civilian administration that shared power after the 2019 overthrow […]
At least 150 people including children have been killed in two days of fighting in the latest ethnic clashes between members of the Hausa people and rival groups over land disputes in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state. The fighting is some of the worst in recent months, and crowds took to the streets the state’s […]
The new Ebola outbreak in Uganda has killed 19 people while five medical staff members that contracted the virus have recovered and been discharged from an isolation unit, the Ministry of Health in Kampala said Tuesday (11 October). According to the country’s health minister Jane Ruth Aceng, five affected districts have seen “54 cumulative confirmed […]
The 15th outbreak of Ebola disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) comes to an end as neighboring Uganda races to tackle a virus outbreak of its own, the World Health Organization (WTO) has said. A week after health officials in Uganda declared an outbreak of Ebola, the highly contagious strain of the deadly […]
Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, who rules Sudan after a coup nearly a year ago, said he will not run in future elections meant to put in place a civilian-led government. “I have no desire to run as a candidate,” General Burhane, 62, said in an interview with The Associated Press on the sidelines of the […]