Africa

The former safe haven city of Wad Madani became the scene of fighting in a new front of Sudan's war. The paramilitary force's advance has forced hundreds of thousands to flee.

Germany's foreign minister says Berlin will do its utmost to support vaccine production in Africa as German pharmaceutical company BioNTech opens a vaccine factory in Rwanda.

As citizens prepare to head to the polls on December 20, civil servants and traders in conflict-ridden North Kivu province are hoping the next president will quash rampant insecurity.

Eight dead, 84 injured in Guinea fuel depot blast

Women who fled violence in Sudan's West Darfur have described being raped by armed fighters wearing RSF military uniforms, or robes and turbans commonly worn by Arab militiamen during ethnically targeted attacks on the city of El Geneina.

A Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) court on Friday ordered the 'immediate and unconditional' release of ousted Niger President Mohammed Bazoum. The court ordered the reinstatement of Bazoum, who was overthrown July 26 by the military. "It is Mohammed Bazoum who represents the State of Niger.

Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region is now grappling with a deadly famine. While some have left the worst-hit areas to avoid starvation, many others are left behind.

Gunmen pulled out a patient from an MSF ambulance and shot him dead in the capital, Port-au-Prince. MSF announced the indefinite closure of an emergency clinic as the group conducts a security analysis.

A huge blast at an explosives depot in Seychelles on Thursday injured 66 people and brought down buildings, prompting the country's "shocked" president to declare a state of emergency for much of the day.

In an interview with FRANCE 24, the president of the Tibetan government-in-exile warned that Tibet is "dying a slow death". Penpa Tsering said that Chinese government policies are aimed at the "eradication" of Tibetan identity. Among them, Tsering cited the policy of forcible schooling of some 1 million Tibetan children in what he described as "colonial-style boarding schools" in which the youngsters are separated from their families, taught only in Chinese and forced to pledge allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party.

Next week, voters in Congo will decide whether President Felix Tshisekedi will serve a second term. Many voters want their leader to revive the DRC's fragile economy by dumping the dollar.

A face-to-face meeting is agreed between warring parties in Sudan. But army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo are yet to make the first move towards a ceasefire. Also, sanctions stay in Niger but ECOWAS says they could be lifted as soon as a short transition towards civilian life is reached.