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Rescue workers in northern Nigeria are still searching for about 25 missing passengers after a boat accident in Sokoto state on Sunday, a local councillor has said. The National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) said the boat was carrying more than 50 people to a local market when it capsized in the River Goronyo. Aminu Bare, […]

The main rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the M23, has walked away from peace talks with the government, saying it will not return unless the authorities adhere to a previous ceasefire deal. Fighting between the two sides escalated in January, when the M23 captured large parts of the mineral-rich east, including the […]

A prominent Sudanese human rights group has accused the country’s army and security forces of torturing people to death and operating “execution chambers”. The Emergency Lawyers group said it had documented hundreds of arrests in the capital Khartoum. It said that in the “worst cases”, some captives had later been found dead with evidence of […]

Augustine Ogbo works as a doctor, treating patients in clinics across the striking Caribbean island of St Lucia. When he returns to his home in the coastal town of Rodney Bay, he clocks in for his second job – as the owner and solo chef of a Nigerian takeaway. “Egusi soup and fufu, that’s more […]

Cape Verde has declared a state of emergency on the islands of São Vicente and Santo Antão, after deadly floods which killed at least nine people and forced 1,500 from their homes. The state of emergency activates crisis funds and urgent infrastructure repairs in the Atlantic Ocean islands off the west coast of Africa. Monday’s […]

French President Emmanuel Macron has acknowledged the violence committed by his country’s forces in Cameroon during and after the Central African nation’s struggle for independence. It followed a joint report by Cameroonian and French historians examining France’s suppression of independence movements from 1945 to 1971. In a letter to Cameroon’s President Paul Biya made public […]

The women at the community kitchen in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher are sitting in huddles of desperation. “Our children are dying before our eyes,” one of them tells the BBC. “We don’t know what to do. They are innocent. They have nothing to do with the army or [its paramilitary rival] the Rapid […]

An investigation by the British Army has found some soldiers stationed at a controversial base in Kenya continue to use sex workers despite being banned from doing so. Soldiers at the British Army Training Unit Kenya (Batuk) used sex workers “at a low or moderate” level, a report said, adding more work was needed to […]

Alexander Isak has been central to Newcastle United’s success since joining the club but, in one growing community in the city, his impact has stretched beyond the pitch. For members of the Eritrean diaspora, seeing someone who shares their heritage succeed on football’s biggest stage is profoundly inspiring. In local parks and training grounds across […]

A Kenyan magistrate says the cause of death of British tycoon Harry Roy Veevers, whose exhumed body has been in a morgue for 11 years, cannot be determined. David Odhiambo ordered the inquest to be closed, saying that “due to the level of [the body’s] decomposition at the time of exhumation – months after his […]