Africa

Records show that over 1,000 women and girls have been sexually abused since the war in Sudan broke out in mid-April 2023, but refuge centre founders say that is “10%” of the actual figure.

Morocco and Syria have announced they would reopen embassies in each other’s capital as the countries seek to restore diplomatic relations.

At least 11 people have been killed and 20 others wounded after a suicide bomber blew himself outside a military camp in Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday.

Hamid Dbeibeh, the prime minister of Libya’s Government of National Unity, says the recent developments in the country’s capital Tripoli have raised hopes that the city would be freed from militias.

Martha Karua, a Kenyan lawyer who represents opposition figures on trial in neighbouring countries, was arrested in Tanzania on Sunday and her deportation plot finalised, she said on X network.

Despite the country’s exceptional mineral wealth, over 70% of Congolese live on less than $2.15 a day.

The assassination of militia leader Abdel Ghani al-Kikli has triggered deadly clashes in Tripoli in what some experts view as a potential turning point in the city’s militia-driven security model.

Some 360 people were on Saturday loaded onto buses from Goma and the convoy was seen crossing the border to Rubavu, in western Rwanda.

In exchange for accepting expelled Palestinians, US would release to Libya billions of dollars of funds it froze more than a decade ago, NBC News reports.

The incident unfolded when an unknown number of gunmen entered the bar in Umlazi township and opened fire, police said.