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Africa

June 6, 2022

Suspected Islamists kill at least 18 in east Congo attack

The ADF is a Ugandan militia that moved to eastern Congo in the 1990s and has killed more than 1,300 people between January 2021 and January 2022.

Congo’s Allied Democratic Forces
June 4, 2022

Buhari jets off to Ghana for ECOWAS summit

The president’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, disclosed this via a statement on Saturday

President Muhammadu Buhari travelling
June 4, 2022

Putin ready to allow Ukraine’s grain exports to Africa: AU

Russia’s army has seized much of Ukraine’s southern coastline and its warships control access to the country’s Black Sea ports.

Vladimir Putin
June 4, 2022

Terrorists kill two peacekeepers, injure one in Mali

The peacekeepers were killed, and another injured, when their Armoured Personnel Carrier hit an improvised explosive device outside the town of Douentza.

Photo of a blown Armoured Personnel Carrier used to illustrate this story
June 3, 2022

Chad declares food emergency as crisis worsens

According to the UN, 5.5 million people in Chad, a third of the population will be in need of food aid this year.

Malnourished children. [CREDIT: The Cable]
June 3, 2022

Red Cross condemns killing of aid workers in Mali

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has condemned the killing of two of its aid workers in Mali.

Red Cross officials
June 2, 2022

Tunisian president sacks 57 judges for corruption, shielding terrorists

Mr Saied vowed to move forward with the purification of the judiciary.

Tunisian President Kais Saied
June 2, 2022

UN peacekeepers attacked in Mali

For roughly an hour, the convoy came under direct fire from suspected members of a terrorist group using small arms and rocket launchers.

UN peacekeepers
June 1, 2022

FG okays NNPC, ECOWAS deal on Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline

The pipeline would connect Nigerian gas to every coastal country in West Africa, ending at Tangiers, Morocco, and Cádiz, Spain.

Timipre Sylva (Credit: @NNPCGroup)
June 1, 2022

UK ready to send ‘unwanted’ asylum seekers to Rwanda

“The first flight is expected to take place on June 14,” Britain’s Home Secretary Priti Patel said in a statement.

UK asylum seekers