Africa

Ethnic killings in one Sudan city left up to 15,000 dead - UN report

The war has left nearly half of Sudan's 49 million people needing aid, while more than 7.5 million people have fled their homes - making Sudan the biggest displacement crisis globally.

By REUTERS
20/01/2024

War in Gaza 'one of the cruelest genocidal acts' ever, claims Cuba's VP

Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairperson of the African Union commission, called for an immediate end to what he called the "unjust war against the Palestinian people."

By REUTERS
19/01/2024

Murders, rapes, hangings rampant in war-torn Sudan

The Media Line speaks with eyewitnesses who detail atrocities taking place in Sudan during the ongoing civil war.

By HUDHAIFA EBRAHIM/THE MEDIA LINE
03/01/2024

Military-led Sahel states rally thousands to support alliance

"From now on, we say, whether you're from Mali, Niger or Burkina, we have the same destiny. We're going in together," said Burkinabe premier Appolinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela

By REUTERS
31/12/2023

Burundi's president says gay people should be stoned

"If you want to attract a curse to the country, accept homosexuality," Ndayishimiye said.

By REUTERS
30/12/2023

Uganda says Islamic State-allied rebels kill three in village attack

The ADF was originally an anti-Kampala rebel group that fought the government of President Yoweri Museveni from its bases in the Rwenzori mountains.

By REUTERS
26/12/2023

Sudan's deadly civil war escalates with millions displaced - analysis

Generals and paramilitaries have been fighting over the country and plunged it into disaster. Now there are reports that the RSF have taken Wadi Medani, southeast of Khartoum.

 Civilians who fled the war-torn Sudan arrive in a courtesy bus

Rebels take control of Sudan's second-largest city, endangering refugees

Claims also emerged that the SAF and local police were targeting individuals based on ethnicity, arresting civilians from Darfur without proper cause.

By THE MEDIA LINE
19/12/2023

Israeli research could save people in Africa from deadly disease

Israeli breakthrough made in the development of a drug to treat sleeping sickness that could also work against the Leishmania parasite that affects Israel.

What were the Nazis' colonial plans for Africa? - study

The new research suggests that World War II started 4 years before 1939, with Italy's takeover of Abyssinia.

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