The United Nations voiced grave concern on Tuesday over reports of extrajudicial killings allegedly conducted by the security forces in Mali, now plunged into crisis following an assault on the ruling junta strongholds.
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A well-known Malian lawyer and politician critical of the ruling junta was abducted overnight by masked men in the capital Bamako, members of his family told AFP Sunday.
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Some military officers in Mali worked with jihadis and separatists who recently launched their biggest round of attacks in over a decade in the conflict-battered country, authorities said late Friday.
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Spending five days cooped up in a hotel in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo is not quite what a group of Latin Americans expected when they sought asylum in the United States.
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Mali's Tuareg rebels declared that the country's ruling junta "will fall" and that they intended to conquer the north, in an interview with AFP Wednesday just days after carrying out large-scale attacks targeting the nation's military government.
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The Ethiopian government claimed Wednesday it has proof that regional leaders in Tigray state, with which it fought a brutal war earlier this decade, are forging alliances with rival countries and armed groups.
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Nearly two-thirds of South Sudan's population, some 7.9 million people, face acute hunger, authorities said Tuesday, amid a resurgence of fighting between government and opposition forces.
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An alliance of Al-Qaida-linked militants and separatists carried out the largest coordinated attack in over a decade in Mali, marking a dangerous escalation in what is widely considered one of the world’s deadliest regions for extremist violence.
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Displaced people who took refuge from conflict in an isolated South Sudan village were denied lifesaving aid by the government even as deaths there mounted, eyewitnesses and aid groups said.
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Jihadists and Tuareg separatists in Mali have taken control of the key northern town of Kidal after coordinated attacks on strategic junta positions across the country, an ally of the local governor and local sources said.
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Mali has been plunged into an unprecedented security crisis after an alliance of Tuareg rebels and a jihadist group carried out synchronised attacks against the West African country's military leadership.
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Mali's defense minister died after an attack on his house, his family said Sunday, as the army fought a second day of battles with jihadist fighters and separatist rebels near the capital Bamako and other cities, putting the Sahel nation's ruling junta under severe pressure.
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United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday condemned "acts of violence" in Mali after jihadists and Tuareg rebels claimed attacks against the army across the junta-ruled Sahel state.
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The army in Mali on Saturday battled what it called "terrorist groups" that launched surprise attacks around the capital Bamako and other parts of the West African nation.
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Pope Leo XIV on Thursday held an open-air mass in Equatorial Guinea in front of tens of thousands of followers, wrapping up his first major international tour that began with harsh criticism of his stance on Iran from US President Donald Trump.
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The Iran war has exposed Africa's vulnerability to fuel chokepoints and is heading for a 86 million tonne fuel shortfall by 2040, the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) said Thursday.
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Pope Leo XIV urged Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday to work for justice and to close the gap “between the privileged and the disadvantaged,” as he drew attention to the vast income inequalities and human rights abuses in the Central African country.
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Ethnic Tigrayans in a disputed region of northern Ethiopia are victims of discrimination and arbitrary detention, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, assessing that the abuses could amount to "crimes against humanity."
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Pope Leo XIV heads to Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday for the final leg of his four-nation African journey, arriving in a country that presents perhaps the most diplomatically delicate challenge of this trip and his young papacy.
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The DR Congo government and the M23 group agreed to ease humanitarian aid deliveries and release prisoners within 10 days, according to a joint statement Sunday following talks in Switzerland.
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