March 7, 2025 UN says 186 missing and at least 2 dead after migrant boats capsize off Yemen and Djibouti The UN is reporting that four boats with immigrants from East Africa capsized off of Yemen leaving 186 missing. Two crewmembers were rescued.
February 26, 2025 Death toll in Sudan military plane crash rises to 46 The death toll has risen to at least 46 people, including women and children, following a Sudanese military aircraft crash; at least 10 people were injured.
February 22, 2025 70 Christians beheaded in African country by ISIS-aligned militants, groups say; world mostly silent Reports indicate that 70 Christians were beheaded by Islamic militants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The group that killed the faithful is an affiliate of the Islamic state.
February 18, 2025 UN human rights chief accuses Rwanda-backed rebels in Congo of killing, recruiting children The U.N. human rights chief accused Rwanda-backed rebels in Congo of killing children and attacking hospitals and warehouses storing humanitarian aid.
February 16, 2025 World's first openly gay imam shot dead in South Africa: authorities Muhsin Hendricks, a man known as the world's first openly gay imam, was killed in South Africa over the weekend after being ambushed near the city of Gqeberha.
February 16, 2025 Rwanda-backed M23 rebels breach second major city in Congo's mineral-rich east M23 rebels have reportedly "occupied" Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, positioning themselves at the governor's office and vowing to deviate from the "old regime."
February 10, 2025 Trump, South Africa in growing row over hotly contested land law, country's deals with US foes Trump’s executive order cutting aid and offering refugee status to South Africa’s Afrikaner farmers has caused a stir in the African country after passage of a controversial land bill.
February 4, 2025 Uganda starts clinical trial of vaccine for Sudan strain of Ebola amid new outbreak Uganda has begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola following an outbreak that has killed one nurse in the east African country.
January 31, 2025 Trump facing 1st test in Africa amid bloody battles ‘over electric vehicle battery minerals’ Secretary of State Marco Rubio has demanded a ceasefire in Eastern DRC after M23 rebels reported to have taken over most of Goma, a major city key to the country’s vast mineral wealth.
January 31, 2025 Humanitarian aid threatened by fighting in Democratic Republic of Congo Humanitarian aid at risk as fighting continues in Congo's eastern capital. (Video: AP.)