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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.