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The leader of one of the most influential armed groups in western Libya, whose arrest by a rival group on Monday sparked violent fighting that left 55 dead, was released overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, according to a military source.…

The majority of participants of a three-day meeting in the Democratic Republic of Congo's parliament have voted to lift military rule in two eastern provinces deeply affected by long-raging insecurity. The state of siege, where military…

As his hunger strike enters its third week, concern is growing over Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko's health. Speaking to French broadcaster RFI, the opposition Yewwi Askan Wi coalition said Sonko had rejected its pleas to end…

The former director-general of the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN), Cosma Wilungula, and two other former officials of this public institute in the DRC have been placed on the US sanctions list, according to a press…

More than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants was found off Cape Verde in West Africa. Thirty-eight people, including children, were rescued, with footage showing them being helped ashore, some on stretchers, on the…

Clashes between rival militias in the Libyan capital have left residents trapped in their homes unable to escape the violence, the country's health ministry said Tuesday (Aug. 15), in what appears to be the most intense fighting to rock…

International aid agencies have warned that, four months into the conflict in Sudan, the situation is spiralling out of control, with mass displacement and millions on the verge of famine. In a joint statement, the heads of 20 global…

Zambia’s anti-money laundering and drug trafficking body has seized close to $6m (£4.7m) in cash at the main airport in the capital, Lusaka. Also seized were five pistols, seven magazines, 126 rounds of ammunition, 602 pieces of…

DRC president Felix Tshisekedi called upon rebel groups in the Ituri and Northern Kivu provinces to put down their weapons and join what he has dubbed the disarmament and reinsertion operation on Monday. Congolese president Félix-…

Niger's coup leaders have recalled their country's Ivory Coast ambassador saying the Ivorian president's comments amounted to "praising armed action" against them. Alassane Ouattara had spoken of his determination to see Niger's…