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A Tanzanian court has jailed opposition leader, Tundu Lissu, for four years on a charge of incitement. But the three-judge panel in Dar-es-Salaam dismissed a charge of treason that carried the threat of a death sentence. The ruling was handed down on Friday, in a trial closely watched...

Zambia’s government carried out a violent crackdown on opposition parties after August’s election, in which President Hakainde Hichilema won a second term, according to a Human Rights Watch report published Monday. Police and military personnel forcibly disappeared, arbitrarily detained, beat and...

Attacks in northern Ethiopia that reportedly killed children, including a newborn, are pushing the region’s fragile health system closer to collapse, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) chief said Monday. Renewed fighting has effectively shattered a November 2022 peace agreement between the...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of potential escalation of hostilities in the disputed Western Sahara region after the expiry of a 35-year-long peacekeeping mission. “The Secretary-General said he remains concerned about the security situation throughout the territory...

Military drone strikes in southwestern Sudan’s Darfur that killed more than 100 people—mostly women and children—earlier this week targeted a busy city market frequented by paramilitary fighters, witnesses said. Emergency Lawyers, a rights group tracking violence, put the toll from Monday’s attacks...

The U.S. imposed sanctions on Rwanda’s defense ministry on Wednesday over the country’s involvement in mineral-rich eastern Congo, where fighting continues between the Congolese government and Rwandan-backed M23 rebels despite peace efforts from the Trump administration. The sanctions come after a U...

At least 62 people have been killed after gunmen attacked a community in northeastern Nigeria, the country’s emergency agency said Tuesday. The attack, reportedly carried out by criminals known as bandits, happened on Friday in Binnari community located in the Karim-Lamido local government area of...

At least 60 Orthodox Christians were killed in separate attacks on October 20 and 24 in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, church officials reported. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s holy synod on Monday described the killings as “extremely tragic cruelty and suffering inflicted on our citizens”...

Senior Sudanese commanders implicated in a “campaign of rape” have been targeted by the UK on the first anniversary of a mass atrocity that saw tens of thousands of civilians killed over several days. A year after the fall of El Fasher, the British government said it had sanctioned military leaders...

Sudan's army has been accused of launching several drone strikes that have reportedly killed more than 300 people, including dozens travelling to a funeral. The death toll from strikes in two areas of West Kordofan state on Sunday evening was 150, sources told the Sudan War Observatory, which tracks...