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The United Nations has called for an investigation into the deaths of 87 people whose bodies have been found in a mass grave in Sudan's Darfur region. The UN human rights office says they have credible evidence of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) being involved in the killings. The RSF is currently fighting the country's armed forces and violence has been escalating. The

The conflict between Sudan’s rival armed forces has now entered its second month. More than 2 million people have become displaced by the fighting so far. The situation is especially dire in the region of Darfur. This week, the governor of West Darfur was killed after speaking up about what’s happening there. The World’s Africa Correspondent Halima Gikandi brings us more.

The Paris Olympics is about a year away. Which means that now is the time athletes around the world are trying to qualify — including Alexandra Ndola, a German-Polish-Kenyan fencer. Last year she decided to compete for Kenya, where she is trying to grow the sport of fencing. The World’s Halima Gikandi brings us her story from the capital Nairobi.

The first film from Sudan to show at the Cannes Film Festival this year, "Goodbye Julia," is from Sudanese director Mohamed Kordofani. It follows the story of two women during South Sudan's split from Sudan in the early 2000s. The film won some high praise, but that was "bittersweet," Kordofani says, due to the ongoing conflict in Sudan. The World's Africa correspondent Halima

On Monday, Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu was sworn in as the country’s new president in the capital Abuja. He enters office amid ongoing court disputes against the election results, rising insecurity and a struggling economy. Host Carol Hills speaks with The World’s Africa correspondent, Halima Gikandi, who covered the elections in Nigeria earlier this year.

In Khartoum on Wednesday, negotiations aimed at putting a ceasefire in place fell apart. Sudan's national army and a rival paramilitary group have tried and failed to implement ceasefires more than once since fighting broke out in the Sudanese capital more than six weeks ago. Now, the United Nations says more than a million people have been displaced by the conflict. The

Tunisia's democracy continues to deteriorate after a wave of arrests of opposition politicians and government critics. That includes leading opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi, who was sentenced to a year in prison last week. Now, the family members of those opposition figures, including Yusra Ghannouchi and Kaouther Ferjani, are filing a legal case with the African Court on

There was more fighting today on the outskirts of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. A short-term ceasefire is in place, but the United Nations says it’s only been partially successful, and that rival armed forces are not ready to seriously negotiate for peace. Over the past week and a half, hundreds of people have been killed in the fighting. Sudanese residents from the capital

Tuesday is World Malaria Day. It’s an important reminder of how malaria kills more than 600,000 people a year. Many of them are children under the age of 5. But now, there's more hope than ever before. A malaria vaccine for children is already yielding results in countries like Kenya. The World’s Africa correspondent Halima Gikandi reports.

Kenyan police say they have recovered more than 50 bodies from a forest in the coastal county of Kilifi. Officials says a radical Christian cult was responsible for persuading its followers to starve themselves to death. Kenya's President William Ruto has called the leader of the religious group a, "terrorist." The World's Halima Gikandi reports from Nairobi.