Russian embassy in Sudan says it is investigating shoot-down of cargo aircraft in Darfur region
Mobile phone footage showed fighters among the burning wreckage, claiming they shot down the aircraft with a surface-to-air missile. Identity documents shown included a Russian passport and an ID that linked back to a UAE-based company, whose phone number was disconnected.
Tensions soar in Mozambique as police fire teargas at opposition supporters in Maputo
Police fired teargas at other protesters in the port city of Maputo earlier in the day and said there was also unrest in the neighbouring province of Gaza. Six people were arrested, police spokesperson Orlando Mudumane told state-run radio. Maputo’s streets were largely deserted in other parts as many stayed at home, either to observe the shutdown or to avoid the unrest.
Cameroon’s separatist conflict forces hundreds of thousands of students out of education
The Central African nation has been plagued by fighting since English-speaking separatists launched a rebellion in 2017, with the stated goal of breaking away from the area dominated by the French-speaking majority and setting up an independent, English-speaking state.
Violence rocks Mozambique after leading opposition figures are gunned down in election dispute
Frelimo established a one-party state following independence and then fought a bloody, 15-year civil war against the rebel group Renamo. They signed a peace deal in 1992 and Renamo became the main opposition party following the country’s first democratic elections in 1994, but the peace between them has been fragile.
UN envoy to Western Sahara wants the territory divided between Morocco and Polisario Front
Western Sahara is a region in northwest Africa that the United Nations has considered a “non-self-governing” territory since 1963, when it was a Spanish colony. It considers Polisario the legitimate representative of the Sahrawi people. Morocco controls the majority of the phosphate-rich region and considers it to be its “southern provinces,” while Polisario sees itself as a government in exile and operates out of refugee camps in southwest Algeria.
Debt-ridden Zimbabwe to compensate white farmers who lost land in seizures 20 years ago
In this file photo dated March 29, 2000, Pippa van Rechteren, left, and her two-year-old twins Catherine, second from left, and Elisabeth (third from left) are blocked from leaving their house on the white-owned commercial farm, Chiripiro, by Zimbabwe war veterans in Centenary district, 150 kilometers (93 miles) north of Harare, Zimbabwe. Credit: AP
Kenyan and Nepalese Quick Reaction Forces train in eastern Congo as rebels step up attacks
The QRF training forms part of a series of inter-contingent exercises under the MONUSCO flag, all aimed at countering the threat of armed groups in eastern DRC.
ICC Chief Prosecutor Khan announces renewed probe into crimes in war-torn eastern Congo
The ICC previously convicted three rebels of crimes in Congo’s eastern Ituri region, including a notorious warlord, Bosco Ntaganda, known as “ The Terminator ” who was found guilty of crimes including murder, rape and sexual slavery.
When travellers in eastern Congo aren’t being killed by rebels, they die in overcrowded and rickety ferries
The roads are often caught up in the deadly clashes between Congolese security forces and rebels that sometimes block major access routes. Hundreds have already been killed or declared missing in such accidents so far this year.
Africa set to transform from relative clean-energy laggard to world energy sector leader
Kenya and Ethiopia are both exploiting their relatively easy access to geothermal sources and are constructing the lion’s share of geothermal capacity. And around 15,000 MW of hydro is being planned across Ethiopia, Egypt, Angola, Nigeria and Tanzania, while Nigeria also has a 4,800 MW nuclear plant in pre-construction.
