For a regional connectivity plan to work, there must be stability in east Africa, writes Peter Biar Ajak.

Governments across Africa are clamping down on dissent, hiding their secrets and attacking the funding base of their critics.

An African Union summit in Uganda is this week being dominated by the Somali crisis.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is expected to sign a ceasefire deal in Doha with a key rebel group, hopefully ending the conflict in Sudan.

Dellys should be a tourist hotspot, yet it is isolated as it tries to recover from a brutal civil conflict that engulfed the country in the 1990s.

Up to 650 000 people in Darfur have been left without access to full healthcare, writes Xan Rice.

Peace talks between Madagascar’s political parties and civic groups have been canned as opposition leader Andry Rajoelina refuses to participate.

Hardline Islamist insurgents in southern Somalia told international aid agencies on Tuesday to hand out all the food in their warehouses, or leave.

Humanitarian crisis on an unimaginable scale looms in lawless state. Simon Tisdall reports.

Sudan boosted forces outside a volatile camp for displaced people in Darfur on Tuesday as fears rose of new armed clashes.

Tapping down the rough track with metal sticks, blind Sudanese children negotiate a route between pools of muddy rainwater and zooming motorbikes.

The number of people needing humanitarian aid in Somalia has leapt 77% this year to more than 3,2-million, an authoritative new study has shown.

Darfur rebels on Wednesday accused the Sudan government of mounting a massive attack to wipe out their strongholds in the far north of the region.

Despite setbacks, the AU is making steady progress in bringing the continent’s conflicts to an end.

For the first time in international law victims of war crimes can take part in investigations and trials at the ICC.

Conflict in Somalia has killed 2 136 civilians so far this year, a local human rights group said on Thursday.