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The European Council has adopted sanctions against six entities involved in the war in Sudan, where the regular army (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been fighting since last April. The Council said in a…

Six people including a senior local administrator were killed in an ambush by armed men in the Abyei region claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, local officials said. The oil-rich region experiences frequent bouts of violence, where…

The UN Security Council has extended for just six months the United Nations political mission in Sudan, after UN envoy Volker Perthes was accused by Sudan's army chief of stoking the worsening civil conflict. In a short resolution, the…

A military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa has sentenced six men to life in prison for murdering Italy's ambassador in 2021. Public prosecutors had originally sought the death penalty for the six accused…

The Egyptian Bar Association has hannounced an "indefinite" strike to protest the imprisonment of six colleagues for a brawl with clerks earlier this month. "We immediately suspend all our activities, we will stop appearing in court and…

A bomb blast in the eastern city of Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least six people. Narcisse Muteba, the colonel running the city during the state of emergency in the east of the country, said the bomb had gone off…

Britain has announced its intensions to ban travels from six southern African countries, after South Africa detected a new Covid-19 variant. All flights are set to be suspended from South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zimbabwe and…

Gambian President Adama Barrow will face five challengers in an election on 4th December, the first vote in 27 years not to include exiled former leader Yahya Jammeh, who fled the country after refusing to accept his defeat five years ago.…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has alerted six African countries to watch out for potential cases of Ebola after it emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea. The DRC declared the emergence of Ebola on 7th February…