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Pro-govt DR Congo fighters kill 35 civilians

At least 35 people were killed when pro-government militia attacked a village in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local and security sources said on Friday.

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UNSC warns against Sudan rival govt

The UN Security Council has voiced ‘grave concern’ over a charter signed by Sudan’s paramilitary forces, warning it could deepen the country’s war and worsen the humanitarian crisis.

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UN says children as young as one raped in Sudan

Children as young as one have been raped by armed men during the conflict in Sudan, the UN said on Tuesday, condemning it as a horror that should ‘shock anyone to their core’.

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23 killed in north-east DR Congo attack

At least 23 people were killed and about 20 taken hostage this week in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by a group linked to Islamic State, local sources told AFP Friday.

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46 killed in Sudan plane crash

Forty-six people were killed when a Sudanese military transport plane crashed into a residential neighbourhood on the outskirts of Khartoum, the regional government said on Wednesday...

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Somali govt claims 70 Al-Shabaab killed

More than 70 members of the Islamist armed group Al-Shabaab were killed during an army operation with local forces in Somalia, the information ministry said on Tuesday....

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7,000 killed in eastern DRC since January: PM

Violence raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed ‘more than 7,000 compatriots’, many of them civilians, since last month, the Congolese premier said Monday.

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