Category: Africa
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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.
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A medical group says SPLM-N fighters killed 27 people, four of them children, in Otoro villages in South Kordofan. The movement built on Nuba self-determination is now killing Nuba civilians, and almost nobody is reporting it.
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Incidents in north-west Nigeria rose 78 per cent in the first half of 2026 and kidnappings nationwide doubled. The word “banditry” is doing a lot of work, and it is part of why nobody covers this.
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MSF screened 21,000 children in Baidoa and found acute malnutrition around 50 per cent among the displaced. The number that matters more is the readmission rate: over 60 per cent.