The United Nations Security Council will vote on Friday to call on Rwanda’s military to stop supporting the M23 rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and immediately withdraw all troops from the Congolese territory “without preconditions”.
The EU on Friday summoned Rwanda’s ambassador to demand Kigali pull out troops from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo and stop backing an offensive by the M23 armed group.
A prolonged drought in Namibia has disrupted farming, leaving more than 40% of the population at risk of crisis-level food insecurity, according to the agriculture ministry.
Some $4 million has been sent to Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention to plug some of the immediate healthcare funding gaps left by US president Donald Trump’s freeze on aid.
The ANC and its GNU partners are divided over South Africa’s military involvement in the DRC, as opposition parties call for an immediate withdrawal of troops
A fuller picture of the Rapid Support Forces massacres in Gezira, committed under the cover of a communications blackout, is emerging from survivors and victims’ families
With nearly 2 500 people killed in recent Israeli strikes on Lebanon, nobody in the country is safe, and the only help for Africans is from other migrant workers