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Chad's government has said security forces had thwarted an alleged effort to destabilize the country, after a group of people attacked the presidential palace in the capital, N'Djamena. "An attempt at destabilization has been foiled. Nineteen people died and six were injured, including 18 assailants...

Police in Kenya’s capital Nairobi have fired tear gas to disperse protesters demonstrating against what they say is a wave of unexplained abductions of government critics. Dozens of Kenyans have been abducted in recent months, according to human rights groups, who blame the extrajudicial arrests on...

Polls have closed in Chad’s first parliamentary election in 13 years, which the government has presented as a key step towards ending a military rule. Provisional results are expected by January 15 and final results by January 31 in the large, mainly desert Central African nation of 18 million...

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said Friday that his government would submit legislation to repeal a law by former president Macky Sall granting amnesty for deadly political violence. The controversial amnesty was granted just before March 2024 elections as Sall sought to calm protests...

Mozambique’s president-elect has called for “non-violence” and “unity” after widespread rioting this week sparked by his governing party’s contested election win. Daniel Chapo, of the long-governing Frelimo party, said on Friday that he “regretted” the violence, and promised that after his...

At least 21 people have been killed in unrest since Mozambique’s top court confirmed the governing party Frelimo’s victory in disputed elections, the interior minister says. A total of “236 acts of serious violence were reported” since Monday across the Portuguese-speaking African country, in which...

More than 700 people have been killed in el-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur state since May, the United Nations human rights chief has said, imploring the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to halt a siege of the city. The siege and “the relentless fighting are devastating lives every day on a...

Human Rights Watch on Thursday condemned "atrocities" committed against civilians by Mali's army, the Russian mercenary group Wagner, and Islamist armed groups since UN peacekeepers withdrew a year ago. Mali's ruling junta pushed the United Nations stabilization mission (MINUSMA) to leave last...

A court in France has found French-Cameroonian author Charles Onana guilty of downplaying the Rwandan genocide. The 60-year-old writer was fined €8,400 ($8,900; £7,000) and Damien Serieyx, his publishing director from Éditions du Toucan, was ordered to pay €5,000. They are also required to pay €11...

Sudan's military has been accused of carrying out an air strike on a marketplace in the western region of Darfur in which more than 100 people were reportedly killed. The Emergency Lawyers rights group described the bombing in Kabkabiya town on Monday, the weekly market day, as a "horrific massacre...