Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have said they would withdraw from the eastern Congo town of Uvira on the request of the U.S. administration. The U.S. administration had earlier criticised the seizure of the town and said it was a threat to mediation efforts. The rebels entered Uvira, on the border...
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An evening meant for celebration turned into tragedy on Sunday after two gunmen opened fire on a crowd gathered for a Jewish Hanukkah event at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach in Australia, killing 11 people and injuring dozens more in what authorities described as a terrorist attack. The shooting unfolded...
Fresh violence has rocked Cameroon’s restive Anglophone Northwest region, leaving at least eight people dead and several others injured following deadly communal clashes, security sources confirmed on Saturday. The bloodshed began in the early hours of Friday when gunmen suspected to be armed separatist fighters reportedly stormed a Mbororo...
United Nations (UN) has issued a powerful global call for support, unveiling a $33 billion humanitarian appeal for 2026 aimed at reaching 135 million people across 50 countries — with $23 billion urgently needed to deliver lifesaving assistance to 87 million of the world’s most vulnerable. The Global Humanitarian...
Democratic Republic of Congo is grappling with its most devastating cholera outbreak in a quarter-century, with close to 2,000 lives lost since January, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) revealed on Monday. The agency warns that the crisis is escalating rapidly, hitting children the hardest. In one shocking incident detailed...
World Health Organisation on Monday said more than 100 people, including dozens of children, were killed in attacks on a kindergarten in Sudan. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X that the latest attacks on Dec. 4, began with repeated strikes on a kindergarten in South Kordofan state....
Nigerian military has deployed fighter aircraft to the Benin Republic following Sunday’s military coup that toppled President Patrice Talon, reliable security sources have confirmed. The aircraft, which took off from Lagos earlier on Sunday, were sighted operating within Beninese airspace as Nigeria intensifies surveillance and monitoring of the rapidly...
France has pledged deeper security cooperation with Nigeria as President Emmanuel Macron has said his country stands firmly with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in confronting the nation’s growing security threats. In a message posted on his X handle, Macron revealed that he had a direct conversation with President Tinubu,...
Authorities in the Republic of Benin has said the attempted coup launched in the early hours of Sunday has been decisively crushed, with the ringleader, Colonel Pascal Tigri, now on the run. The dramatic events began when a handful of mutinous soldiers stormed the National Television station in Cotonou,...
U.S. President Donald Trump has brokered a peace deal between leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame. The U.S. president facilitated the signing of a peace agreement in Washington aimed at ending more than three decades of conflict in mineral-rich eastern Congo....
Russian President Vladimir Putin, has said the country is not looking to rejoin the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrial nations. Putin said thisduring a visit to India on Thursday. The G7’s share of the global economy has been shrinking for years, Putin was quoted as saying in an...
Pope Leo XIV began the third day of his first Apostolic Journey to Türkiye with a quiet yet deeply symbolic stop at one of Istanbul’s most treasured landmarks—the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, revered worldwide as the “Blue Mosque.” The Pontiff entered the 17th-century masterpiece without ceremony, choosing instead a moment...
World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the world has made remarkable progress against measles over the past two decades — but warns that the gains are now at risk as infections surge across multiple regions. According to new figures released on Friday, global immunisation efforts helped drive an 88...
West African leaders have taken a hard stance against the latest political upheaval in Guinea-Bissau, issuing a forceful rebuke of the coup that unseated President Umaro Sissoco Embaló. In a decisive move, ECOWAS announced the suspension of Guinea-Bissau from all of its decision-making bodies, underscoring the regional bloc’s zero-tolerance...
The military in the West African coastal state of Guinea-Bissau on Thursday announced that it had installed a new leader. State broadcaster TGB reported that General Horta Inta-A is to serve as transitional president for a one-year period. Much remains unclear about the balance of power in the country...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has safely left Guinea-Bissau after a sudden military takeover upended the country’s electoral process. Jonathan had been in the country leading the West African Elders Forum Election Observation Mission during last Sunday’s presidential and legislative polls. Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the former president’s...
Former Nigerian leader, Goodluck Jonathan, has found himself unexpectedly stranded in Guinea-Bissau after the tiny West African nation lurched into yet another bout of political turbulence. Jonathan was part of a 36-member high-level observer mission drawn from the African Union (AU), ECOWAS, and the West African Elders Forum (WAEF)....
Guinea-Bissau was thrown into fresh uncertainty on Wednesday as senior military officers declared they had seized “total control” of the country, abruptly shutting all borders and freezing the ongoing election process. The announcement came just three days after citizens cast their ballots in tightly watched presidential and legislative polls....
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said expanding terrorist networks, mass displacement, and the collapse of essential services in West Africa and the Sahel are a growing concern worldwide. Guterres told the UN Security Council at UN headquarters that the growth in terrorist groups was “not only a regional dramatic...
At least 32 artisanal miners have died after a makeshift bridge gave way at a cobalt mining site in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials confirmed on Sunday. The incident happened on Saturday at the Kalando mine in Lualaba Province. Roy Kaumba Mayonde, the province’s interior minister, told journalists...