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Judges ruled his term extension unconstitutional, so Somalia's president sent more than 300 armed men to occupy the highest court in the land.
A flag, a 13-year-old girl shot dead, and 50,000 people running for their lives. Ethiopia's leaders knew this dispute was dangerous. They let it burn.
Seven more are dead after two trains collided on Sunday. Egypt has poured billions into rail, yet the same corridor keeps killing, and the officials keep their seats.
Rwandan soldiers are fighting inside Congo behind the M23 mask, and the world is cutting the aid that keeps Congolese families alive. Enough.
Victoria has sold okpa on Nigerian streets for over 20 years and raised four children on it. Her country should never have made that the only ladder available.
Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, UgandaSource: International Organization for MigrationDistribution and demonstration of use of Infrared thermometers at the Nizi Site for the internally displaced in Bunia, Ituri. Photo: IOM DRC/2026.Nairobi/ Geneva, 10 November 2026– Seventy-one confirmed Ebola cases have been identified since the start of the outbreak through surveillance points supported by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the Democ
Ebola has infected 10,467 people and killed 5,103 in Congo. Rwanda's war drove millions into camps where it spreads, and donors are $59.8 million short.
Since April 2023, Sudan has recorded 807 attacks on health care, and Kordofan is now the deadliest front. The world keeps calling this a war between generals.
Two-thirds of households in Kulbus face severe hunger and no safe water. Seven in ten families outside town defecate in the open. The world keeps looking away.
Six weeks from its first national election, South Sudan's leaders are looting oil wealth while peacekeepers die and children go hungry. Africa cannot validate this.
Half the African countries the WHO assessed cannot reliably record how their people die. Governments have had decades to fix this, and they keep choosing not to.
Britain compensated the slave owners, not the enslaved. Now it calls reparations "not feasible." Africa has heard enough polite regret.
Drought, cholera and a war between government and opposition forces have pushed millions toward the edge. The men in charge keep fighting while ordinary people pay.
Two generals who seized Sudan's future are now deciding whether its farmers eat. A $90 million rescue plan is coming. Will anyone make sure it reaches the people who need it?
Sudan's farmers are being starved by a war and then slowed by paperwork. A new agriculture recovery grant shows how far the cure still is from the patient.
Armed drones hit Sudan's power stations up to 15 times in October alone. Children are paying with their water, their food and their hands.
Sixty-six Congolese soldiers have been sentenced to death for fleeing a war Rwanda started. Kinshasa is condemning its own young men while Kigali walks free.
Biya, 93 and in power since 1982, has postponed Cameroon's polls twice. The opposition party is suspended, its candidate is in exile, and talk about the president's health is banned.
Nearly 64,000 Nigerians have fled to Niger this year. Boko Haram, ISWAP and armed gangs are emptying villages, and Nigeria's government has not stopped them.
Nine young men were stopped at Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo Airport, bound for Russia's war. Their recruiters promised jobs. Africa's governments must stop this trade.
Cameroon's president has delayed elections twice and is cracking down on his critics. Across the border in Kenya, most displaced families cannot find enough food to eat.
A 1994 genocide suspect lived in America for over a decade. Uganda's journalists face arrest and torture for doing their jobs. Both are failures of accountability.
El Nino warms surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, bringing worldwide changes in winds and rainfall patterns, on top of man-made global warming. ... Ivory Coast's public meteorology body, Sodexam, said it estimated that the climate episode would lead to lower rainfall, higher temperatures and a longer dry season in the west African country. A water deficit and high temperatures may cut cocoa production "in the order of 21 percent to 25 percent" because of the
Botswana digs 70 percent of De Beers' diamonds but has owned a sliver of the company that sells them. Doubling its stake is a start. Accountability is the real test.
Ahead of the Madlanga Commission’s recommendations, Parliament should carefully review South Africa’s capacity to investigate and prosecute serious crime.
For decades, Africa has served as a transit point for cocaine coming from Latin America and destined for European markets. In recent years, the explosion in demand for cocaine and synthetic stimulants (notably methamphetamine), combined with intensified anti-trafficking efforts in the Western Hemisphere, has led to a considerable expansion of Latin American cartel activities in Africa. While the organizational arrangements between the networks
Nine Zimbabweans arrested in Johannesburg, ready to leave and fight for Moscow. How many have already left without anyone counting their dead?
In Bangui, five civil society activists have been languishing in the Roux camp for nearly a month for having called for a general strike against the rise in fuel prices. Their health is deteriorating.
Two postponements, a vice president groomed to inherit power, an opposition crushed in blood. Meanwhile, Beijing signs deals in Libreville and Cairo hunts its journalists.
In Ituri, 70% of the confirmed Ebola cases in the DRC are concentrated in a province where weapons dictate the law. Meanwhile, health workers are stuck.
More than 3,000 Ivorians died after the 2010 presidential election. Fifteen years later, the ICC has convicted no one, and the victims are still waiting.
Tens of thousands of young Moroccans have tried to swim to Ceuta. Madrid responds with fences and floating barriers. Nobody in Rabat is asking the real question.
Cholera has killed 207 people in two Kordofan states while displaced families sleep in classrooms. The world's aid appeal for Sudan's women is 60 percent empty.
Nine young Zimbabweans were caught at OR Tambo airport allegedly preparing to fly to a war that has already killed their countrymen. Who is profiting from our sons?
The Atlantic crossing to Spain's Canary Islands remains dangerous for migrants seeking a better life
Armed groups are shooting civilians in Ituri while Ebola spreads and aid workers are pushed out. Congo's government and its neighbours are failing the people who pay the price.
Gunfire near a camp of 76,000 displaced people has halted aid missions while Ebola spreads. Who will protect them?
Families arrive in Kenya with little food or shelter as host communities struggle to cope.
The ANC's worst-ever municipal result exposes three decades of broken pipes, failing power grids and stolen public money. Coalition deals alone won't fix it.
Thousands of people have died in recent years attempting to reach Spain’s Canary Islands from West Africa.
Police seized 454kg of methamphetamine on Kenya's coast, a network spanning seven countries used Mombasa as its gateway. Our ports are wide open, and our leaders are still talking.
The ANC just recorded its worst local election result in history. Its own voters have called it the chief culprit, and South Africans are done excusing a party that failed them.
Twenty-three thousand households, 185 localities, 18 states. Sudan's own survey shows a nation on its knees, and two generals are to blame.
Join SAIIA, the APRM, YouLead and Restless Development on 13 November for this dialogue ahead of the 9th Pan-African Youth Forum from 16-19 November.
A secondary school teacher with 26 years of service earns $13.20 a month. Eight million Sudanese children are out of school, and the men with guns are responsible.
Ebola is spreading through a Congo where Rwandan soldiers and their M23 proxies control the roads, the clinics, and the people who need them. Kigali calls this a rebellion.
Fifty thousand Ethiopians fled violence in Oromia and Somali regions, and most of them cannot find enough food or clean water in Kenya's border town of Moyale.
Ebola is spreading through a war zone that Kigali's army helped create, and the nurses trying to stop it are being shot at.
Bundibugyo virus now threatens the camps Rwanda's war created in eastern Congo, and no approved vaccine exists for it. Kagame's invasion built those camps. Who answers for this?
Only 40 percent of Sudan's 2026 health needs are being met. Both armies started this war, and both are still fighting it while children die of preventable disease.