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The rise of right-wing populism in Europe and elsewhere should not prevent Africa from bringing reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism to the table, the head of the African Union's diaspora division said. "There is no better time as this to discuss the issue of reparations as Africans...

Zimbabwe police say they have arrested 95 people on charges of promoting public violence for taking part in demonstrations that called for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to leave office. A large police deployment in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, and other cities largely neutralized a call by war...

An Algerian court sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal on Thursday to five years in jail for undermining national unity, drawing an expression of “regret” from France, which called for a swift and dignified end to the situation. Sansal has been detained in Algeria since November, spending...

The detention of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the 2013-2018 civil war, his party said. The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) called for restraint, saying the country stood on the brink of relapsing into widespread...

The Sudanese army shelled parts of Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman, residents said, after declaring victory over their paramilitary rivals Rapid Support Forces (RSF)in a two-year battle for the capital. The army ousted the RSF from its last footholds in Khartoum, but the RSF holds some areas in...

South Sudan is on the brink of a renewed civil war as violence between rival factions escalates, the United Nations has warned. The situation in the country is “dire” said Nicholas Haysom, head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), as tension between forces allied with President Salva Kiir and...

Funding is desperately needed to feed a wave of refugees fleeing the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to Burundi, the World Food Program (WFP) said. The United Nations agency warned on Monday that 70,000 people have fled across the border to neighboring Burundi since...

Paramilitary shelling on a mosque in eastern Khartoum has killed at least five people and injured dozens, a Sudanese pro-democracy lawyers’ group has said. The attack, which has been blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), targeted civilians during evening tarawih prayers at a mosque...

Rwanda-backed rebels battling Congo’s army have pushed into a strategic, mineral-rich town in the east, ignoring calls for a ceasefire this week by the Congolese and Rwandan presidents as the M23 rebel group expands its footprint in the conflict-torn African country. The decades-long conflict in...

The presidents of Congo and neighboring Rwanda met in Qatar for their first direct talks since Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized two major cities in mineral-rich eastern Congo earlier this year. The meeting between Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame to discuss the...