Shelling and gunfire shook the streets as the Rapid Support Forces, at war with the army for nearly two years, stormed a famine-stricken camp in the Darfur region.

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi has bemoaned inaction by the international community to end the fighting in his country’s volatile eastern region. Experts urge a local-driven process to find lasting peace.

Sudanese paramilitaries killed more than 200 people in a three-day assault south of Khartoum, a monitoring group said on Tuesday, as the government said the real toll was more than double.

The DRC insists on a military solution in the fight against the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels. Analysts say the fall of Bukavu could complicate matters.

Around 20 people were killed in northern Mali when the vehicles they were travelling in came under attack, with local sources telling AFP that Wagner mercenaries and Mali’s army were responsible.

Burundi on Monday said that close to 10 000 people had fled across its western border from the Democratic Republic of Congo over the last three days as Rwanda-backed forces advance there.

The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has stepped up its attacks on the Zamzam refugee camp near el-Fasher, capital of the North Darfur state.

The African Union warned on Sunday against the break-up of the Democratic Republic of Congo, two days after the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group entered a second city in the country’s east.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have taken control of the strategic Kavumu airport that serves Bukavu, the region’s second biggest city, the rebel alliance and a civil security source said on Friday.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says he intends to advocate for peace and security at the upcoming 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this weekend.

Dozens of children caught up in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been subjected to sexual violence including rape by armed men, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund.

The International Committee of the Red Cross is bringing essential care and stability to the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo amid ongoing conflict between the M23 rebels and the DRC army.

For the first time in nearly two years of war, soup kitchens in famine-stricken Sudan are being forced to turn people away, with US President Donald Trump’s aid freeze gutting the life-saving schemes.

M23 fighters and Rwandan troops on Wednesday pushed further into the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, as Burundi warned Kigali it would respond if attacked.

A prominent opposition figure in Uganda who is on trial in a military tribunal has begun a hunger strike, his wife said.

Eastern DR Congo appeared calm for a second day, after regional powers appealed for a ceasefire amid fears the fighting could spark a wider conflict.

A fresh atrocity in Goma shows how long the shadow of genocide is, writes Phillip de Wet.

Sudan’s military said that it had recaptured most of Khartoum North, as it intensified its offensive aimed at reclaiming full control of the capital from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Namibia’s first president Sam Nujoma, who died on Saturday, aged 95, was revered for leading his country to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990.