Category: Others in Africa
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Soldiers took officers hostage at the Niamey air base that hosts Turkish drones, Russian Africa Corps personnel and the Alliance of Sahel States headquarters. Russia and Algeria helped put it down. The alliance itself did nothing.
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Cameroon’s school year starts Monday. The UN counted more than 88 attacks on education in the Anglophone regions in the first half of 2026, and Crisis Group warns August violence could disrupt the reopening. It will be the tenth school year the conflict has taken.
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A vigilante group raided a camp of hundreds of refugees outside Durban’s Home Affairs offices. They were sleeping there because that is what the asylum renewal queue requires — which is the part of the story that explains the rest.
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Moussa Kaka, a former RFI correspondent and television director, left his office in Niamey days after a failed coup attempt and has not been heard from since. Reporters Without Borders wants the authorities to say where he is.
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Xi Jinping’s first visit to Egypt in ten years came while Washington is six months into a war with Iran. The handshake is easy to over-read — here is what would actually have to happen for it to matter.
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A month after fighting resumed between Ethiopian federal forces and the TPLF, conflict monitors find it has stayed localised — border clashes and drone strikes around Mekelle, not the country-wide war of 2020 to 2022. That finding is a measurement, not a reassurance.
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The UN arms embargo and targeted sanctions on Sudan lapse on 12 September unless the Security Council renews them. The renewal is near-certain. The argument is over whether measures written for Darfur in 2005 still describe the war being fought in 2026.
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Millions of Congolese children returned to class on Tuesday, in the middle of what authorities call the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record. The teachers’ union in Ituri asked for a postponement. In the epicentre itself, some classrooms were nearly empty.
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At least fifteen attacks off Somalia this year, eight in the Gulf of Aden since May. The warships that suppressed piracy went to the Red Sea and Hormuz. Puntland and the federal government now disagree over whether a ransom was paid.
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A militia ambushed an army convoy escorting thirty buses, two ambulances and three bank vehicles in East Wollega. Sixteen died, including a midwife and a patient. Fano activity in western Oromia is up 80 per cent this year.