Africa

Africa faces intensifying conflicts: Sudan’s war deepens after 1,000 days; M23 advances in eastern DRC; Somalia faces new regional tensions; Ethiopia confronts renewed insecurity and Eritrea friction. Sahel states continue battling jihadist insurgencies. CAR grapples with post‑election instability.

Ceremony versus ceasefire: DRC, Rwanda and M23 test Washington's peace gamble

Trump's high-profile accord arrives amid fresh clashes and dueling accusations in eastern Congo's war zones

By Amara Okonkwo

/ 4 Dec 2025

Ceremony versus ceasefire: DRC, Rwanda and M23 test Washington's peace gamble

Guinea-Bissau election halted after tally sheets destroyed in raid on vote center

The day the count stopped

By Amara Okonkwo

/ 3 Dec 2025

Guinea-Bissau election halted after tally sheets destroyed in raid on vote center

Sudan offers Russia Red Sea naval base as wartime survival bargain

Khartosan's military junta is trading long-term strategic access for immediate battlefield advantage against the RSF

By Amara Okonkwo

/ 2 Dec 2025

Sudan offers Russia Red Sea naval base as wartime survival bargain

Cameroon opposition leader dies in military custody amid disputed care allegations

Family and lawyers accuse authorities of medical neglect as government announces investigation into Georges Anicet Ekane's death.

By Amara Okonkwo

/ 2 Dec 2025

Cameroon opposition leader dies in military custody amid disputed care allegations

Guinea-Bissau military seizes power as vote count looms, president arrested

Junta invokes drug-trafficking conspiracy to justify halting election three days after polls closed, extending West Africa's coup contagion

By Amara Okonkwo

/ 27 Nov 2025

Guinea-Bissau military seizes power as vote count looms, president arrested

South Africa opens criminal probe into alleged Russia-Ukraine war recruitment scheme

Hawks investigate MK party MP after sister alleges 17 men were trafficked to Russian mercenary units under false pretenses

By Amara Okonkwo

/ 26 Nov 2025

South Africa opens criminal probe into alleged Russia-Ukraine war recruitment scheme

Fourteen killed near Kinshasa as western Congo's land war grinds on

Mobondo gunmen massacred civilians in Nkana amid a three-year Teke–Yaka dispute that has spread across five provinces, testing state protection at the capital's edge

By Amara Okonkwo

/ 24 Nov 2025

Fourteen killed near Kinshasa as western Congo's land war grinds on

Sudan's army chief rejects US truce plan as 'worst yet' amid El Fasher atrocity reports

As the UN declares El Fasher a 'crime scene,' Burhan accuses Quad mediators of bias, leaving civilians trapped between war crimes and diplomatic deadlock.

By Amara Okonkwo

/ 24 Nov 2025

Sudan's army chief rejects US truce plan as 'worst yet' amid El Fasher atrocity reports

Islamic State-linked rebels kill 89 in eastern Congo hospital massacre

Coordinated attacks in North Kivu's Lubero territory expose protection failures as diplomatic attention remains fixed on separate M23 crisis

By Amara Okonkwo

/ 21 Nov 2025

Islamic State-linked rebels kill 89 in eastern Congo hospital massacre

JNIM ambush in Niger shows tactical strength, fuel blockade tests Mali junta

As al-Qaeda affiliate kills 10 soldiers near tri-border, economic siege of Bamako exposes Alliance of Sahel States' vulnerability

By Amara Okonkwo

/ 20 Nov 2025

JNIM ambush in Niger shows tactical strength, fuel blockade tests Mali junta

Kebbi school abduction exposes Nigeria's unfulfilled safe-schools promise

The mechanics of failure

By Amara Okonkwo

/ 19 Nov 2025

Kebbi school abduction exposes Nigeria's unfulfilled safe-schools promise

Aid retrenchment threatens 22.6 million additional deaths by 2030

New research warns first synchronized donor contraction in three decades will reverse gains in African LDCs

By Amara Okonkwo

/ 17 Nov 2025

Aid retrenchment threatens 22.6 million additional deaths by 2030