Idriss Déby’s son takes power after strongman father dies in battle a day after his re-election
Skirmishes between forces continue despite government calls for peace in a region already torn apart by ethnic conflicts
The Sidama say they plan to unilaterally declare their own federal state this week
Britain routed in UN vote on Chagos
Since anglophone separatists declared independence last October, dozens of people have gone missing
In a statement, a government spokesman hit out at reports published by ICG that criticised a crackdown in the two English-speaking regions.
The terror network blamed for the Jakarta hotel bombings is ”larger and more sophisticated” than thought, a think tank said on Thursday.
Rapidly spreading lawlessness as Somalia collapses in the worst fighting for two nearly decades is fuelling a wave of piracy.
There is a growing danger of a coup by military hardliners in Zimbabwe to prevent opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai from toppling President Robert Mugabe, a leading think tank…
An unprecedented Darfur rebel attack on Khartoum is a turning point that could persuade Sudan’s rulers to negotiate seriously with their foes or push Africa’s biggest country…
Sudan on Tuesday shut down for its first census in 15 years, a milestone in the peace deal that ended Africa’s longest civil war but clouded in dispute threatening to undermine…
They were the pride of Kenya, but the country’s athletics community could not escape the worst of the post-election tribal violence after disputed December polls. While two…
Cash-flow problems and logistic headaches are blighting preparations for Sudan’s census, a cornerstone of the fragile peace ending a devastating civil war and paving the way for…
One of Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s senior aides ordered his Mehdi Army militiamen on Thursday to observe a ceasefire after they clashed with United States soldiers in…
When rumours of a ”gay wedding” spread through the town of Ksar el Kebir, the only evidence produced was a video on YouTube of a man dancing in women’s clothes. Four people are…
Kenya’s political rivals are haggling over a settlement to the crisis sparked by disputed elections, but if the squabbling doesn’t bear fruit, the ordinarily stable East African…
Kenya’s government said on Thursday it agreed in principle to creating a prime minister’s post demanded by the opposition, in a possible breakthrough for a political crisis some…
Leaders of Pakistan’s opposition parties have been making frantic last-minute efforts to convince fearful voters to turn out in crucial parliamentary elections on Monday that may…
North Korea appeared certain to miss a year-end deadline to finish disabling its atomic plants and declare all its nuclear programmes, a key element in a six-nation disarmament…
Diplomatic wrangling dashed hopes for an end to the killing and rape in Darfur this year and a new United Nations-backed peacekeeping mission scheduled to start on January 1…
