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South Sudanese forces loyal to President Salva Kiir have released the peacebuilding minister, a key ally of First Vice President Riek Machar, a spokesman for Machar said on Friday, after the arrests of senior officials escalated tensions.…

At least 11 people were killed in attacks over the past day in the rebel-held Democratic Republic of Congo city of Bukavu as vigilante violence rises following the army's withdrawal, witnesses and a civil society activist said.…

South African power utility Eskom resumed scheduled power cuts on Friday and said they would last across the weekend, after outages at the country's nuclear power station and one of its mammoth coal plants. The loss of power from units…

The arrest of an army general from South Sudan's main opposition is a "grave violation" of the peace deal that ended a five-year civil war, an opposition spokesperson said. Gen Gabriel Duop Lam was arrested earlier this week, along with…

Mozambican police fired on supporters of opposition leader Venancio Mondlane in the capital Maputo on Wednesday, injuring one of his entourage during a protest march, Portuguese news agency Lusa reported. Mondlane's supporters had…

South Sudanese forces have arrested the petroleum minister and several senior military officials allied with First Vice President Riek Machar. Soldiers surrounded Vice President Riek Machar’s home in the capital on Wednesday. The…

Dozens of people in the Sudanese state of North Darfur are feared dead following heavy shelling on a camp for displaced people. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF, attacked a crowded market at Abu Shouk, a camp on the outskirts…

Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said he will run for a second term in November, amid tensions with an opposition that refuses to recognize him as the country’s current president. Meanwhile, a delegation from the West…

One million more people in Somalia could face crisis levels of hunger in the coming months due to a forecast drought during the next crop cycle, the World Food Programme said on Tuesday. The number could rise even further because of…

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, RSF, and allied groups signed a transitional constitution on Tuesday that takes them a step closer to setting up a parallel government during a two-year-old war with the army that threatens to split the…