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An alleged Janjaweed militia leader on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the first ever trial at the International Criminal Court dealing with Sudan's Darfur conflict of nearly two…

A section of Rwandan refugees living in Mozambique have begun their return home after nearly three decades since they escaped the 1994 genocide. "Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 …

South Africa has announced the ending of Covid restrictions, two years after they were imposed. In a televised address, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that “the national state of disaster would end at midnight on Monday, masks will still…

France has called for an international investigation into reports that hundreds of civilians have been killed by government troops and Russian mercenaries in Mali. The EU and the US have made similar calls related to the deaths…

Somalia’s spy agency has warned about an alleged plot by al-Qaeda-allied al-Shabab militants to attack the president and the prime minister. The National Intelligence and Security Agency, Nisa, said in a tweet that it had briefed the…

Tunisian MPs face charges that may carry the death sentence for attending an online session of the suspended parliament last week, legal and political figures have said. The session was condemned by the Tunisian president as a "failed…

Sudan's military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has threatened to expel the United Nations' special representative, accusing him of overstepping his mandate. "We heard his slander the other day, lying, blatantly lying," Burhan…

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola visited Kyiv unexpectedly on Friday and pledged more EU assistance in defence of Ukraine. She tweeted a photo of her meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky, with the slogan "courage,…

The official was named as Oleksiy Shibayev, deputy mayor of Nova Sloboda district. He was accompanying an aid delivery stopped by Russian troops at a checkpoint on Friday in the Putyvl area, about 80km, 50 miles, northwest of Sumy. The…

Police stood outside petrol stations in Sri Lanka's capital city Colombo and shops slowly opened on Saturday - the first day after a state of emergency was declared to tackle growing unrest amid an unprecedented economic crisis. In an…