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Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee a camp in Darfur in the wake of the most recent attacks
UK hosts Sudan talks as people face famine
LONDON — A high-level international conference is under way in London to find "a pathway to peace" in Sudan, hosted by the UK's Foreign Secretary David Lammy.Sudan's civil war began exactly two years ago causing what aid agencies call the world's worst humanitarian crisis.The UK is promising an extra $120m (£91m) worth of food and medical assistance.Charities say 30 million people in Sudan are in desperate need, and people are starving as a result of the war."Many have given up on Sudan – that is wrong – it's morally wrong when we see so many civilians beheaded, infants as young as one subjected to sexual violence, more people facing famine than anywhere else in the world... We simply cannot look away," Lammy said opening the meeting on...
April 15, 2025

UK hosts Sudan talks as people face famine

Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes and have sought aid at refugee camps like ZamZam
More than 400 killed by rebels in Sudan says UN
LONDON — More than 400 people have been killed in recent attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan's Darfur region, says the UN citing "credible sources".Last week, the RSF launched an intense ground and aerial assault on refugee camps surrounding the city of El-Fasher in an attempt to seize the last state capital in Darfur held by their rival, the Sudanese army.The two warring sides have been locked in a bloody power struggle since April 2023. This has created the world's largest humanitarian crisis and forced millions to flee their homes.The UN said it had verified 148 killings between Thursday and Saturday, but warned the toll was much higher.UN spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told the BBC their verification process was still ongoing and their...
April 15, 2025

More than 400 killed by rebels in Sudan says UN

The payments are the first under a 2020 deal between the state and the former farm owners
Zimbabwe makes first compensation payments to white farmers over land grabs
HARARE — Zimbabwe's government has announced an initial pay-out of US$3m (£2.3m) to white farmers whose farms were seized under a controversial government program more than two decades ago.It is the first payment to be made under the 2020 compensation agreement signed between the state and the local white farmers in which Zimbabwe committed to pay $3.5bn (£2.6bn) for seized farmland.Thousands of white farmers were forced from their land, often violently, between 2000 and 2001.The seizures were meant to redress colonial-era land grabs but contributed to the country's economic decline and ruined relations with the West.The payment announced on Wednesday will cover the first 378 farms, out of a total of 740, for which compensation had been approved.It represents 1% of the total...
April 10, 2025

Zimbabwe makes first compensation payments to white farmers over land grabs

The Americans, pictured from left, Tyler Thompson, Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun and Marcel Malanga, were repatriated on Tuesday
DR Congo repatriates three Americans who faced death penalty over failed coup attempt
KINSHASA — Three Americans have been transferred to the United States after their death sentences over a foiled deadly coup were commuted to life imprisonment last week by Congolese authorities, in the wake of talks with US government officials.The Americans, Marcel Malanga, Tyler Thompson Jr., and Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun were among 37 people sentenced to death by a military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in September for participating in the failed coup led by Malanga’s father, Christian.At least six people, including Christian Malanga, an opposition politician were killed in a gun battle with presidential guards as the putschists sought to overthrow the government last May.“They will serve their life sentences in the United States,” presidential spokesperson...
April 09, 2025

DR Congo repatriates three Americans who faced death penalty over failed coup attempt

President Salva Kiir's government says the deported man is from the Democratic Republic of Congo
South Sudan says US visa ban caused by mistaken nationality
JUBA — South Sudan has criticized the revoking of US visas for all its nationals, saying it was based on an incident involving a citizen of a different African country.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the visa ban on Saturday, citing South Sudan's refusal to accept the return of its citizens being removed from the US.But South Sudan's foreign ministry said that a man who was refused entry after being deported from the US was a citizen of the Democratic Republic of Congo.It added that the individual was "returned to the sending country for further processing".This is the first time the US is targeting all passport holders from a particular country since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, having campaigned on an anti-immigration...
April 08, 2025

South Sudan says US visa ban caused by mistaken nationality

This is believed to be the first time Gen Burhan has set foot in the presidential palace since the start of the war almost two years ago
Army in full control of Khartoum, Sudan military leader says
PORT SUDAN — Sudan's military leader, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has visited the presidential palace in Khartoum, after landing at the city's international airport, just hours after it was recaptured by the army.Surrounded by cheering soldiers at the venue — a significant symbol of absolute power and sovereignty — Burhan declared the capital "free" of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces."Khartoum is free, it's done," he said.This is believed to be the first time Burhan has set foot in the presidential palace since the start of the war almost two years ago.The military-led government was forced to move to Port Sudan on the Red Sea after the RSF seized control of the capital early in the war.Earlier, an army commander told the BBC that his troops had...
March 27, 2025

Army in full control of Khartoum, Sudan military leader says

Cyril Ramaphosa
South African president rejects Trump's claims of Afrikaner persecution
JOHANNESBURG — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has strongly dismissed claims that white citizens are being persecuted in South Africa, calling the allegations a "completely false narrative".His comments come amid accusations from US President Donald Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk and white minority groups, that South Africa's government is enabling violence against the white Afrikaner population.In his weekly address on Monday, Ramaphosa urged South Africans not to let "events beyond our shores divide us or turn us against each other," and called for a rejection of the "completely false narrative" that any racial or cultural group is being persecuted in the country.Although Ramaphosa did not name individuals, his remarks were a direct rebuttal...
March 26, 2025

South African president rejects Trump's claims of Afrikaner persecution

Prince Harry meeting children at a Lesotho children's home in 2006
Harry leaves African charity he co-founded
LONDON — The Duke of Sussex has announced his resignation as a patron of Sentebale, a Lesotho-based British charity which he co-founded, after a row between the trustees and the chair of its board.Prince Harry said he had stepped down alongside co-founder and fellow patron Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and Sentebale's board of trustees after Dr Sophie Chandauka's relationship with the trustees "broke down beyond repair" and she sued the charity after she was asked to step down.Dr Chandauka has reported the charity to the UK Charity Commission. She said she had "blown the whistle" about "abuse of power" and "harassment", and said her work was "in pursuit of the integrity of the organisation".The Charity Commission says it is "aware...
March 26, 2025

Harry leaves African charity he co-founded

Army spokesperson Nabil Abdallah made the announcement of the capture of te palace on state TV
Sudan army recaptures presidential palace after two years of war
PORT SUDAN — The Sudanese army says it has recaptured the presidential palace in the capital Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after almost two years of fighting.Reclaiming the east African country's seat of power marks a major victory for the army, which has been making significant advances against the RSF in recent months.But it is still a long way from ending the war entirely, with large parts of the country still under the RSF's control.It is also unclear whether the battle for Khartoum is over: an RSF statement said its fighters were still in the area."Our valiant forces are still present in the vicinity of the area," read an RSF statement issued on the messaging service Telegram.RSF said a drone strike it launched on the palace complex left...
March 21, 2025

Sudan army recaptures presidential palace after two years of war

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is Namibia's first female president
Namibia swears in first female president
WINDHOEK — Namibia's new president was sworn in on Friday to lead a country facing high rates of unemployment, inequality and poverty.And she will be dealing with it with the additional burden of being only Africa's second-ever directly elected female president and Namibia's first female head of state."If things go well then it will be seen as a good example," Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah told BBC's Africa Daily podcast. "But if anything then happens, like it can happen in any administration under men, there are also those who would rather say: 'Look at women!'"The 72-year-old won November's election with a 58% share of the vote.Nandi-Ndaitwah has been a long-term loyalist of the South West Africa People's Organization (Swapo) – which has...
March 21, 2025

Namibia swears in first female president

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