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The United States said it would impose sanctions on Sudan after determining that its government used chemical weapons in 2024 during the army's conflict with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a charge the army denied. Measures against Sudan will include limits on U.S. exports and U.S...

Britain signed an agreement handing sovereignty over the contested and strategically located Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a move the government says ensures the future of a U.S.-U.K. military base that is vital to British security. The Indian Ocean archipelago is home to a strategically important...

A suspected militant attack on two villages in Nigeria left at least 57 people dead and at least 70 missing in one of the deadliest incidents in the country’s conflict-ridden northeast this year. Abdulrahman Ibrahim survived Thursday’s attack on two villages in Baga in Borno State and participated...

Hundreds of Rwandan refugees who were living in eastern Congo since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda were repatriated on May 17, the UNHCR said, after Rwandan-backed rebels seized key parts of the region. Most of the refugees were women and children, and 360 of them crossed the border in buses provided...

Chad’s former prime minister and opposition leader Succès Masra was taken into custody by security forces on May 16, in what his party called an “abduction.” Public prosecutor Oumar Mahamat Kedelaye said Masra was arrested in connection with an intercommunal clash in Chad’s southwest province of...

President Donald Trump's senior adviser for Africa said he spoke with the presidents of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo about a draft peace deal this week, as Washington seeks to end a decades-long conflict in the region. The United States is awaiting final feedback due this weekend from...

Mauritania's former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on corruption charges following an appeal to a Nouakchott court by both the state and Aziz's defense against a sentence imposed in 2023. Abdel Aziz led the West African country for a decade after coming to...

The worst fighting in Libya's capital for years calmed after the government announced a ceasefire, Tripoli residents said, while there was no immediate statement from authorities on how many people had been killed. Clashes broke out at the beginning of the week after the killing of a major militia...

At least 100 civilians were killed by Burkina Faso government forces in March near the western town of Solenzo, Human Rights Watch said. According to victim testimony and videos shared on social media gathered by the rights group, the attackers were Burkina Faso special forces and members of a pro...

An attack by a jihadi group in northern Burkina Faso killed more than 100 people, mostly soldiers, an aid worker and local residents said. The attack on several locations, including a military base and the long besieged strategic town of Djibo, occurred early Sunday, said an aid worker actively...