Ugandan Man Gets Death Sentence for Nursery School Killings A Ugandan court has sentenced 38-year-old Christopher Okello Onyum to death by hanging for the murder of four toddlers at a nursery school in Kampala. The victims, aged between one and two, were fatally stabbed at the Ggaba Early Childhood Development Program on 2 April….
Ex-French Soldier Held for Alleged Madagascar Coup Plot A former French serviceman has been detained in Madagascar over an alleged plot to destabilise the country. The French national had been charged with multiple offences, including criminal conspiracy and plotting to sabotage infrastructure such as power lines and thermal plants. Other accomplices, including a Malagasy…
UNICEF Warns of New Child Crisis in Darfur UNICEF has warned that children in Darfur are facing a new humanitarian catastrophe, two decades after the region first drew global attention, but with far less international focus and support. The agency said violence has devastated communities and displaced millions across Sudan, leaving children once again…
15 Killed in South Sudan Plane Crash Near Juba A Cessna 208 Caravan operated by CityLink Aviation Ltd has crashed about 20km south-west of Juba. A total of 15 people are on board: the pilot and 14 passengers, 13 South Sudanese and 2 Kenyans. Air traffic control lost contact with the aircraft 30 minutes after it…
Mali Defence Minister Killed in Coordinated Jihadist Attacks Mali’s defence minister, Sadio Camara, has died following a suicide truck bombing that targeted his residence near Bamako. Camara was killed by jihadist militants and separatists in a coordinated attack across the country. Authorities said that he died of wounds received while engaging with the attackers. The attack led to…
The World Health Organization (WHO) wrapped up Exercise Polaris II, a 2-day high-level simulation exercise, based around an outbreak of a fictional new bacterium spreading across the world. Bringing together 26 countries and territories, 600 health emergency experts and over 25 partners, the exercise, which took place on 22 and 23 April, allowed countries to…
Tanzania Inquiry Puts Election Death Toll at 518 The Independent Commission of Inquiry into breach of peace during and a few days after the October 29th, 2025 General Election has revealed that a total of 518 people were killed during violence linked to the General Election, with men accounting for the overwhelming majority of…
Pope Leo XIV Urges Justice and Freedom in Equatorial Guinea Pope Leo XIV continued his African tour with a Mass in Equatorial Guinea. He addressed a Mass that drew some 100,000 people, including Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the country’s leader and the world’s long-serving president. Leo, who is on an 11-day tour of Africa,…
U.S. Weighs Relocating Afghan Evacuees to DR Congo Amid Backlash The United States is reportedly in talks to relocate around 1,100 Afghan evacuees currently housed at a former US base in Qatar to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to advocacy group AfghanEvac. The group, which includes interpreters, former Afghan commandos, and families…
H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, today received the Letters of Credence of H.E. Ambassador Nasir Aminu, Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of #Nigeria to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia & to the AU. The Chairperson congratulated Ambassador Aminu on his appointment, noting that his prior engagement with…
