
‘Child in arms, luggage on my head, I fled Sudan camp for safety’
Inhabitants of Sudan’s biggest camp for displaced people have had their lives upturned once again.
MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025, 17:00
Inhabitants of Sudan’s biggest camp for displaced people have had their lives upturned once again.
Just a week after Zimbabwe police crushed protests by citizens demanding that President Emmerson Mnangagwa step down, police on Wednesday crushed another street demonstration by university lecturers and arrested the organisers.
Sudan entered its third year of war on Tuesday, with no sign of respite for war-weary civilians.
Behind a dimly lit bar in Malawi’s capital, Ben Manda rubbed his tired eyes and poured a customer a drink. He had been working for 36 hours straight, packing in back-to-back shifts to feed his family of four.
Diplomats and aid officials are seeking a way to end the violence and suffering in what is considered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. But no one representing Sudan will be present at the talks.
Coup leader Brice Oligui Nguema topped the presidential vote with over 90% of the vote, the Interior Ministry said. The military junta has been in power since earlier presidential elections prompted the coup.
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the controversial Private Voluntary Organisations Amendment Bill into law on Friday.
The Zimbabwean government has started dishing out land to members of parliament just a week after war veteran leader Blessed Geza called for the impeachment of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Sudan told the International Court of Justice on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates was violating the Genocide Convention by supporting paramilitary forces in Darfur, but the UAE argued the case should be thrown out as the
Zimbabwe issued treasury bonds worth R6.1 billion and made small cash payments to white farmers who were dispossessed of their property 25 years ago under a state-backed land reform program.
US President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs on African exports are triggering economic fallout across the continent.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Monday that countries sanctioning Kigali could “go to hell”, weeks after some nations imposed the measures over Rwanda’s involvement in the eastern DR Congo conflict.
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 rebels engaged in peace talks in Qatar after days of unrest. M23 has withdrawn from the town of Walikale and talks will continue next week.
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he’ll suspend tariffs on imports of US goods, seeking to turn Donald Trump’s levies on much of the world into an opportunity to reset strained relations.
Lesotho scrambled to put together a delegation on Friday to head to Washington to engage with the US on tariffs that risk wiping out nearly half of its exports, its trade minister said, in what could be a death blow to its economy.
Lesotho scrambled to put together a delegation on Friday to head to Washington to engage with the United States on tariffs that risk wiping out nearly half of its exports, its trade minister said, in what could be a death blow to its economy.
Lesotho said Thursday it will send a government delegation to the United States to plead its case after Washington imposed 50% tariffs on its imports, the highest for a single nation.
More than 95 protesters arrested on Monday in Zimbabwe appeared in the Harare Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday afternoon.
Planned protests in Zimbabwe calling for the resignation of President Emmerson Mnangagwa turned into a massive stayaway on Monday.
Several activists, including nine journalists, were arrested in Harare during Monday’s mass stayaway in Zimbabwe.
Mozambican kidnapping kingpin, Momad Assif “Nini” Satar died in custody in the cells of the Machava Special Maximum Security Penitentiary Establishment on Friday morning.