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DRC refugees begin returning home despite uncertainty ahead
XINHUA  |  Aug 07, 2025

After decades of exile, Congolese refugees cautiously return home -- only to find their villages changed, their land gone. But hope persists amid the...

Sudan’s rebel force has declared a parallel government: What this means for the war
The Conversation  |  Aug 05, 2025

The Rapid Support Forces, originally formed from the Janjaweed militias in 2000s Darfur, later became a powerful state-backed paramilitary group that...

US warns of heavy gunfire near its embassy in Haiti
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Aug 05, 2025

Residents in the Haitian capital confirmed to AFP that heavy exchanges of gunfire broke out between armed gangs and police forces in the vicinity of t...

Starvation, desperation grip Sudan’s El Fasher as war cuts off food, triggers soaring prices
XINHUA  |  Aug 04, 2025

Since May 10, 2024, fierce clashes have engulfed El Fasher, pitting the Sudanese Armed Forces and their allies against the Rapid Support Forces.

Arab League condemns RSF-linked move to form parallel government
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Jul 31, 2025

Sudan has been engulfed in a devastating conflict since April 15, 2023, when a long-standing power struggle between the country’s two main military fo...

Somalia, Djibouti sign troop deployment deal
XINHUA  |  Jul 31, 2025

The ministry said the agreement outlines the modalities of intervention, reciprocal obligations, and coordination mechanisms, in a spirit of cooperati...

Sudan calls for end to UN probe on war crimes
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 29, 2025

The fact-finding mission, created by the UN Human Rights Council in October 2023, was tasked with investigating alleged war crimes committed by both t...

UN human rights expert visits Port Sudan amid escalating civil war and RSF power move
Mwangi Maina  |  Jul 28, 2025

Nouicer's visit aims to assess the human rights situation and engage directly with stakeholders in a nation where governance, the rule of law, and bas...

Egypt begins free train rides for Sudanese refugees returning to Khartoum
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 22, 2025

Many of the refugees carried their belongings in small suitcases and plastic bags, with some visibly emotional as they prepared to leave Egypt after m...

19 killed as Bangladeshi air force jet crashes into school building in Dhaka
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 21, 2025

Images and videos shared online showed emergency crews searching through the charred rubble for survivors as large crowds gathered at the scene.

Sudan bans WhatsApp voice and video calls, citing national security amid ongoing conflict
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 21, 2025

The directive is expected to significantly disrupt communication for millions of Sudanese, especially in regions such as Darfur and South Kordofan, wh...

Sudan slams EU sanctions on military commanders and companies as unfair, legally baseless
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 20, 2025

This comes after the EU Council announced sanctions on Friday targeting Sudanese Armed Forces commander Abu Aqla Mohamed Kaikal and field commander Hu...

Sudan’s General Burhan lands in Khartoum as army reclaims control of strategic airport
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 20, 2025

Under Burhan’s leadership, the army regained full control of Khartoum about four months ago, prompting the government to intensify efforts to restore...

Fragile serenity: Displaced Sudanese find momentary refuge in Tawila, North Darfur
XINHUA  |  Jul 17, 2025

About 70 km from El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State, the arriving displaced carry stories of resilience intertwined with unending pain.

Cabinet shake-up in Sudan as transitional PM Kamil Tayyib Idris seeks stability amid civil war
Mwangi Maina  |  Jul 11, 2025

The appointments, announced by state-run 'Sudan News Agency', are seen as an attempt to fill key governance gaps and build momentum behind a technocra...

Robbery suspect who killed accomplice over stolen phone finally arrested
Joseph Ndunda  |  Jul 08, 2025

Mohamed Abdirazak Abdisamad will remain in Pangani police station cells as the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) investigates the murder of...

Suspects sought in teen’s killing at a water point in Marsabit
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 04, 2025

The victim, Dargicho Bagijo, was shot three times in the head and chest on July 2 in an attack that has raised concern among residents and local autho...

Four suspects held in Nairobi over armed robbery, motorcycle theft at Embakasi firm
Joseph Ndunda  |  Jul 02, 2025

The DCI is awaiting call data records from telephone service providers to establish possible communication between the perpetrators and the four suspe...

Sudanese Army targets RSF training centre in Nyala drone strikes
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jun 29, 2025

Witnesses reported seeing a drone hovering over the city for about 30 minutes before it launched multiple rockets at the facility.

Kenya defends UAE ties, denies aiding Sudan's RSF
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 26, 2025

In a statement on Thursday, the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs said such statements are reckless, unsubstantiated and risk destabilising reg...

40 killed in Sudan after drone strikes hospital in West Kordofan - WHO
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jun 24, 2025

According to WHO, the attack at Al Mujilad hospital claimed the lives of both women and children, with the organisation's Sudan office confirming the...

Sudan’s RSF leader Mohamed Dagalo extends olive branch to Egypt amid strained relations
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jun 23, 2025

Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo appeared to soften his stance after months of alleging that Egypt was providing direct military support to the SAF in the ongoin...

UN warns Sudan warring parties are weaponising aid, fuelling famine and war crimes
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jun 19, 2025

The UN report states that the SAF has enforced complex and punitive bureaucratic hurdles, while the RSF has looted aid convoys and completely obstruct...

Kenya blames Egypt, Iran, UAE for fuelling Sudan war in explosive geopolitical accusation
Mwangi Maina  |  Jun 16, 2025

claimed that the involvement of mercenaries from countries like Russia and Colombia was undermining peace efforts and deepening regional instability.

RSF captures strategic border triangle linking Sudan, Egypt and Libya after army withdrawal
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jun 12, 2025

The RSF announced the development in a statement on Wednesday, claiming it had liberated the strategic zone and that SAF forces had retreated south af...

Sudanese army drone strike hits girls’ school shelter, kill eight civilians in West Kordofan
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jun 11, 2025

Local media reports indicate that the drone strike struck the Abu Zabad Secondary School for Girls, which was doubling as a shelter for persons displa...

Behind rebel lines: My 72-hour journey with M23 through Goma
Amina Wako  |  Jun 15, 2025

I expected ruin. Collapsed buildings. Blackened rubble. Bullet-scarred walls. Shell craters and twisted steel. I imagined a landscape frozen in grief,...

RSF capture Um Dehilib in South Kordofan as fighting escalates in Sudan
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jun 08, 2025

Local media reports indicate that the RSF joined forces with the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, a militia group led by Abdelaziz al-Hilu, t...

Sudan's warring sides trade blame after five aid workers killed in attack on UN convoy
XINHUA  |  Jun 04, 2025

The convoy, comprising 15 trucks delivering emergency food and nutrition supplies to famine-stricken El Fasher, was struck late Monday in the Al-Koma...

Ruto blasts Sudan generals over escalating war, warns of humanitarian catastrophe
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 01, 2025

Ruto said that civilians are bearing the brunt of the conflict, as violence between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces escalates w...

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