[Premium Times] This installment of PREMIUM TIMES 'series of exclusive reporting on last year's failed coup details how a veteran Nollywood actor became involved with suspected coup plotters after developing a friendship with a soldier, before being assigned a propagandist role.
[Dabanga] Bara / El Jamama -- At least 24 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed in an air strike on the village of Sharshar west of Bara in North Kordofan on Wednesday, according to local witnesses and rights groups. Hours later, a separate paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attack on El Jamama left at least nine people dead and triggered a fresh wave of displacement.
From Mexico City, an exiled Venezuelan watches her homeland collapse in real time, confronting the helplessness of displacement, authoritarian neglect, and the unbearable distance between survival and home.
Most people have only heard of the plague as the disease that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. But it's still around today, such as in Madagascar, and just as lethal as ever.
Early damage estimates vary widely, but all point to the same conclusion: rebuilding Venezuela will require unprecedented financial resources and long-term economic recovery efforts.
[Dabanga] Amsterdam / Kampala -- The 11th voluntary return flight carrying Sudanese refugees from Uganda to Sudan departed on Thursday with 80 returnees on board. The flight travelled to Port Sudan Airport aboard a Tarco Aviation aircraft and was sponsored by Sudan's General Intelligence Service.
After Venezuela’s earthquakes, families searched for missing children within a strained protection system that struggled to respond amid collapsed buildings, scarce resources, and institutional gaps.
Whether fast-spreading cholera in Sudan and Yemen or the Ebola virus in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), outbreaks of disease tend to be especially deadly when they take hold amid armed conflict.
[IPS] Geneva -- Three years into the war in Sudan, survivors and human rights defenders are struggling to respond to overwhelming needs amid widespread violence, displacement, and limited global attention. As horrific violations and abuses intensify and those documenting them become targets, calls for accountability and sustained international engagement grow more urgent.
The dual earthquakes revealed how geology, corruption, and a longstanding humanitarian emergency amplified destruction across La Guaira, Caracas and seven other Venezuelan cities.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Senior Counsel Philip Murgor has cautioned Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairperson Erastus Edung Ethekon that the responsibility of safeguarding Kenya's electoral integrity ultimately rests with the commission's leadership.
[Premium Times] "For whatever reason, they are looking for leverage because we have some of their commanders with us and they feel taking these kids and holding them to ransom will make us release their commander," he said.
[ENA] In his address to Parliament earlier this week, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, made a revealing assessment of the disquiet that perpetuates in the country's northernmost region of Tigray, saying that the instigator is a foreign ilk.
[Premium Times] The Senate noted that counterfeit medicines have become silent weapons of mass destruction because they destroy lives, weaken healthcare delivery and undermine public confidence in genuine pharmaceutical products.
[UN News] Atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia against Sudanese civilians in El Fasher in October - including mass killings, abductions and gang rapes - bear the markers of genocide, independent UN human rights investigators reported on Wednesday.