After several bloody battles in January, the Samidrc soldiers, provided by South Africa, Tanzania, and Malawi, are effectively prisoners of war by the rebels.

Namibia has sworn in its first woman president after Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah won elections last year that extended the ruling party’s 35-year grip on power.

The presence of Russian mercenaries in Africa was once hailed as a success story, but recently the pressure on them has increased. A new report offers strategies to counter Russian influence.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels pressed on with their offensive in eastern Congo a day after the Congolese and Rwandan presidents called for an immediate ceasefire, entering the outskirts of the town Walikale late on Wednesday, residents told Reuters.

Nigerian lawmakers are probing the activities of more than a dozen non-profit organisations and demanded they submit tax and financial statements dating back a decade within a week, a letter seen by Reuters showed, prompting accusations of “bullying”.

The presidents of Rwanda and DR Congo have expressed their support for a ceasefire after holding surprise talks in Qatar, hours after peace talks in Angola failed.

Al Shabaab militants targeted Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in a bomb attack on his motorcade as it was travelling through the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, the Islamist group said.

Rwanda has accused Belgium of repeatedly undermining Rwanda over the M23 offensive in the DRC.

Nigeria’s anti-graft agency on Monday announced the arrest of a popular TikToker who failed to appear in court after getting bail for allegedly abusing the national currency by throwing up notes at a party.

The European Union on Monday sanctioned nine people, including the leader of Congo’s M23 rebel movement and Rwandan army officers, in connection with violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a publication in the official EU Journal showed.

Ethiopian Airlines Group and African Development Bank will partner to build a new airport that’s estimated to cost $7.8 billion (R140 billion) and is set to be Africa’s largest.

Militias allied with Burkina Faso’s military junta have been linked to a “gruesome” massacre in a western city that left dozens dead this week, Human Rights Watch said.

French prosecutors have opened an investigation into TotalEnergies over potential manslaughter and a failure to assist people in danger during a jihadist attack in Mozambique, the energy firm said, reiterating that it denied any wr

International medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Thursday told the United Nations Security Council that the Sudanese people have been met with “indifference and inaction” amid nearly two years of war.

The Global Solar Council estimated that the continent added 2 400 megawatts of solar generation capacity in 2024, slightly less than the year before, which it blamed on the slackening rate of installations in South Africa after a bumper year in 2023.

Despite previously refusing to engage in negotiations, Congolese officials have agreed to meet M23 rebels in Luanda to discuss an end to the deadly conflict.

Mine shafts snake under the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s mountains, but instead of the Congolese government their rich veins are making a mint for the Rwanda-backed M23.

Angola said on Tuesday it would attempt to broker direct talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in the coming days.

Uganda’s military chief said his country had deployed special forces in South Sudan’s capital Juba to “secure it” as tensions between President Salva Kiir and his First Vice President Riek Machar stoke fears of a return to civil war.

Fighters from a new jihadist group torched seven villages in northwest Nigeria over the weekend and killed 11 people in a revenge attack, a police spokesperson told AFP on Monday.