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Junta leader Gen. Mamdi Doumbouya was declared the winner of Guinea’s presidential election held over the weekend, according to incomplete results released late on Tuesday, the country’s first election since a 2021 coup. Doumbouya won 86.72% of the votes counted so far, according to the General...

Niger’s military rulers have approved a general mobilization and authorized the requisition of people and goods as they intensify the fight against armed groups across the country, according to a government statement. The decision followed a cabinet meeting on Friday and marks a major escalation by...

Legislators in Algeria voted to declare France’s colonization of the North African country a crime, approving a law that calls for restitution of property taken by France during its 130-year rule, among other demands seeking to redress historical wrongs. France slammed the law as a “hostile act”...

The UN Security Council has urged Rwanda to withdraw its forces from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and extended the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, known as MONUSCO, for a year, as fighting in the region escalated despite a U.S.-mediated peace deal. The UN’s most powerful body on...

At least 16 people have been killed in an artillery bombardment of a besieged city in Sudan’s embattled Kordofan region, adding to a mounting civilian death toll as the country’s brutal civil war enters a critical phase deep into its third year. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allies in the...

Ex-Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala was sentenced Monday in France to 30 years in prison over atrocities committed two decades ago during the Second Congo War, in a verdict that rights groups hailed as overcoming long-standing impunity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lumbala was found...

A drone attack has hit a United Nations facility in war-torn Sudan, killing six peacekeepers, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. The attack on Saturday hit the peacekeeping logistics base in the city of Kadugli, in the central region of Kordofan, Guterres said in a statement. Eight other...

More than 400 civilians have been killed since the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group escalated its offensive in the South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, regional officials said, adding that Rwandan special forces were in the strategic city of Uvira. “More than 413 civilians (have...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced a former leader of the Janjaweed militia to 20 years in prison for committing atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, 76, also known as Ali Kushayb, was sentenced on Tuesday following his conviction in October for war...

A prominent Sudanese doctor’s group has accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of raping at least 19 women as they fled the city of el-Fasher in Darfur. The Sudan Doctors Network said in a statement on Sunday that it documented the rapes among women who had fled to the town of al-Dabba...