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Violence-ridden Haiti in limbo as transitional council wraps up
AFP, Published on 07/02/2026
» PORT-AU-PRINCE - Nearly two years after it was created to restore order in impoverished, violence-ravaged Haiti, the transitional council is ending its work -- with no end to the crisis in sight.
'Bandits' kill, abduct, loot village in Nigeria
AFP, Published on 05/01/2026
» LAGOS - Armed gangs have killed more than 30 people and kidnapped others in a raid in the same Nigerian state where hundreds of schoolchildren were abducted late last year, police said on Sunday.
UN rights council orders probe of Sudan atrocities
AFP, Published on 14/11/2025
» GENEVA - The UN Human Rights Council on Friday ordered investigators to probe alleged atrocities in El-Fasher in Sudan and to seek to identify perpetrators so they can be brought to justice.
No end to Sudan fighting despite progress on truce
AFP, Published on 07/11/2025
» PORT SUDAN - An end to fighting in Sudan still seems far off despite the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, fighting the army for more than two years, endorsing a truce proposal.
‘No one could stop it’: Fleeing Sudanese describe mass rapes
AFP, Published on 05/11/2025
» TAWILA, Sudan - Sudanese mother Amira wakes up every day trembling, haunted by scenes of mass rapes she saw while fleeing the western city of El-Fasher after it was overrun by paramilitaries.
Sudan army-backed council to discuss US truce proposal
AFP, Published on 04/11/2025
» PORT SUDAN - Sudan’s army-backed authorities are preparing to discuss a US proposal for a ceasefire in the war with the paramilitary, a government source told AFP, as the United Nations chief called for an end to the “nightmare of violence”.
Families separated, children killed as survivors flee Sudan's 'apocalyptic' El-Fasher
AFP, Published on 02/11/2025
» PORT SUDAN (SUDAN) - Survivors fleeing the Sudanese city of El-Fasher told AFP on Saturday that paramilitary fighters separated families and killed children in front of their parents, with tens of thousands still trapped following the city's fall.
Pillaged Ivory Coast nature reserve on the mend after crisis decade
AFP, Published on 31/10/2025
» COMOE NATIONAL PARK (IVORY COAST) - Forest ranger Daouda Bamba is in no doubt about who the apex predator is in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, ravaged by war and unrest between 2002 and 2011.
Fears for trapped civilians in Sudan's El-Fasher as fighting flares
AFP, Published on 27/10/2025
» PORT SUDAN (SUDAN) - The army-aligned governor of Sudan's Darfur region called for the protection of civilians in the stricken city of El-Fasher on Monday, after paramilitaries claimed to have seized it following a brutal 18-month siege.
Two killed as violence flares in Morocco protests
AFP, Published on 02/10/2025
» RABAT - Two people were killed when officers opened fire on a group of people attempting to “storm” a police station in Morocco on Wednesday, state media said, as protests — sometimes violent — roil the north African nation.