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Chad junta grants amnesty for ‘Black Thursday’ crackdown perpetrators

Chad's military rulers on Thursday announced a general amnesty ending prosecution and guilty verdicts over the deaths of hundreds of protesters in a 2022...

Opposition parties stage rare rally in South Sudan

Juba, South Sudan: An alliance of South Sudanese opposition parties rallied on Saturday in a rare show of dissent as the troubled nation charts...

South Sudan calls for lifting arms embargo after deploys forces without firearms

Juba, South Sudan | Xinhua | South Sudan on Friday called on the United Nations Security Council to lift the existing arms embargo, after it...

Flash floods kill 100 in Horn of Africa: charity

Nairobi (AFP) – More than 100 people, including 16 children, have died and over 700,000 been forced out of their homes in the Horn of...

Fuel to the fire: EU banks and investors tied to violence in South Sudan-Global Witness’ investigation

European banks and investors – including Deutsche Bank, Crédit Agricole and Intesa Sanpaolo – are investing over €700 million in two companies that are...

South Sudan mourns peacemaker bishop

The peacemaker Paride Taban, who as Bishop of Torit was the first leader of the Sudan Council of Churches and a leading advocate of...

Clashes in Ethiopia’s Amhara region raise concern for historic churches

NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Fresh fighting between the Ethiopian army and a local militia in the northern Amhara region has raised concerns among residents...

Sisi and Kiir discuss latest developments in Sudan, water cooperation

Presidents Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and his counterpart President Salva Kiir engaged in ongoing and productive talks on Monday concerning the Sudanese crisis and its regional...

Voices from Ethiopia’s war-scarred Tigray

Addis Ababa (AFP) – One year after Ethiopia signed a peace deal with the Tigray People's Liberation Front, ending a brutal conflict that killed hundreds...

Renaissance Dam crisis tests Egypt’s diplomatic capabilities and a new round of negotiations in Addis Ababa

Al-Yurae (Agencies)-Cairo – Cairo hosted the third ministerial-level negotiating round on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Monday and Tuesday, with the participation...

WFP resumes food distribution to refugees in Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) has resumed distribution of food to roughly 900,000 refugees across Ethiopia after revamping safeguards...

A UN rights commission accuses South Sudan of violations more than a year before the next election

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan accused the country’s National Security Service of threatening media and...

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