THURSDAY, 09 OCTOBER 2025, 16:40
The World Food Programme has halted aid distribution in the Zamzam camp in North Darfur. WFP officials said intensified fighting between the military and RSF paramilitary forced them to stop providing the aid.
DRC President Felix Tshisekedi announced he is going to reach out to opposition leaders in a bid to create a unity government, as a humanitarian crisis deepens in the country’s east with the advance of M23 rebels.
Britain on Tuesday said it would pause some bilateral aid to Rwanda over its role in the conflict in neighbouring Congo.
Violence engulfing the Zamzam camp in North Darfur forced the medical charity out, imperiling the lives of nearly half a million displaced people.
Violence raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed “more than 7 000 compatriots”, many of them civilians, since last month, the Congolese premier said Monday.
Despite dramatic shifts in the frontlines, neither side is anywhere near the ‘total military victory’ wanted by Sudan’s warring generals.
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.
Country that ‘achieved the impossible’ in reducing deaths to zero now faces closure of key treatment centre
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
Southern and East African leaders gave military commanders five days to give technical direction on an immediate ceasefire
At the epicentre of the outbreak, burst pipes had been left in disrepair for months, spewing human waste into the streets
The year ahead for the continent will be shaped by key elections and geopolitical shifts
The outspoken foreign minister will be vying for the African Union Commission chair in February
An investigation by Open Secrets reveals how Mozambican elites exploited weak enforcement to ‘invest’ in luxury properties in the neighbouring country
Businesses surveyed report that trading within Africa is easier than trading with the rest of the world
More than 1.7 million people in the country live with disabilities, but the hospital system is not set up for them, so they suffer indignity and worse
Nepotism, graft, shifting ideologies: Southern Africa’s liberation parties have experienced historic setbacks in 2024
The entry of Thales Alenia Space comes at a time when SpaceX’s Starlink is recording significant milestones on the continent