Sudan’s Minister for Culture and Information, Khalid Al-Aiser, has rebuffed sanctions announced by the US State Department after accusing the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) of using chemical weapons in i ...

The US on Thursday accused the Sudanese government of using chemical weapons last year in the civil war against the paramilitary rapid Support Forces (RSF) and will accordingly impose sanctions on the ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) agreed on Thursday in Bamako, Mali, on the urgent need to work together in the fight against terroris ...

A total of 5,162 beneficiaries have been reached by the unexploded ordnance awareness campaign in Tripoli, including 359 children and 327 women, a press release from the United Nations Support Mission ...

Comorian authorities and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff have reached a staff-level agreement on economic policies and reforms for the fourth review under the 4-year Extended Credit Facili ...

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye and his aides have been charged afresh with terrorism six months after his kidnapping and rendition from neighbouring Kenya, where he had travelled to attend a ...

Ugandan human rights lawyer and journalist, Agather Atuhaire, has been found after being dumped near the Mutukula border in Uganda, five days after going missing in Tanzania, while in pursuit of the d ...

More than half the people killed in Gaza over the past week were in shelters and residential buildings, the UN human rights office OHCHR said on Thursday ...

The civil war in Sudan, which erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has killed over 18,000 people and displaced 13 million, tri ...

With more than 36,000 civilian deaths recorded in conflict zones in 2024 and sexual violence surging, senior UN officials warn that the international framework designed to protect civilians is collaps ...

The United Kingdom agreed to cede its control over the Chagos Islands to the Republic of Mauritius in an agreement signed between the two countries on Thursday ...

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday that it has been forced to cut food aid to unprecedented lows in Kenya’s sprawling refugee camps, as a result of severe funding shortages ...