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RSF drone attack kills 24 people fleeing fighting in central Sudan, says doctors group
Eight children including two infants among dead in vehicle carrying displaced people, says Sudan Doctors Network
A drone attack by a paramilitary group has hit a vehicle carrying displaced families in central Sudan, killing at least 24 people, including eight children, a doctors’ group said on Saturday.
The attack by the Rapid Support Forces took place close to the city of Er
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Thousands of Malawi businesses close in protest over tax changes
Peaceful demonstrations force a delay in measures aimed at improving revenue collection but which many fear will be fatal for small traders
Demonstrations across Malawi’s four main cities during the past week have achieved a delay in the introduction of a new tax regime that business owners claim will cripple their livelihoods.
Tens of thousands had signed petitions which this
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Weather tracker: Storm Leonardo continues to batter Europe and northern Africa
Spain and Portugal hit with torrential rain while flash floods in Morocco force more than 100,000 people to evacuate
The Iberian peninsula has been placed under severe weather alerts as Storm Leonardo continues to batter parts of Spain and Portugal with torrential rain and strong winds.
Since Tuesday, the slow-moving system has brought widespread disruption, flooding and
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‘They killed my sons’: chief of Nigerian village where jihadists massacred hundreds recounts night of terror
Umar Bio Salihu, 53, the local head of Woro in Kwara state, says gunmen ‘just came in and started shooting’
The traditional chief of a village in western Nigeria where jihadists massacred residents earlier this week has recounted a night of terror during which the attackers killed two of his
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Gunmen kill more than 160 people in attacks on two west Nigeria villages
Local politician says armed men rounded up residents, bound their hands behind their backs and shot them
More than 160 people have been killed in two villages in western Nigeria in the country’s deadliest armed assaults this year, as communities reel from repeated and widespread acts of violence perpetrated by jihadists and other armed groups.
The death toll from Tuesday’s attacks
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Canada is no stranger to separatism but push for Alberta to join US is a new peril
While Quebec parties have long sought independence, the secret meetings by unelected Albertans with US officials have been branded treasonous by some
A separatist push for a referendum on independence from Canada. Meetings with foreign officials perceived to be sympathetic to their cause. Accusations of
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Bermuda snail thought to be extinct now thrives after a decade’s effort
Special pods at Chester zoo helped conservationists breed and release more than 100,000 greater Bermuda snails
A button-sized snail once feared extinct in its Bermudian home is thriving again after conservationists bred and released more than 100,000 of the molluscs.
The greater Bermuda snail (
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China overturns death sentence of Canadian in sign of diplomatic thaw
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was detained on drug charges in 2014 before Canada-China ties nosedived in 2018
China has overturned the death sentence of Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, a Canadian official said on Friday, in a possible sign of a diplomatic thaw as prime minister Mark Carney seeks to boost trade ties with
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Trump signs proclamation to increase US imports of beef from Argentina
Initial announcement sparked fury from US cattle ranchers as economists say change will have little impact on prices
Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation to hike the US’s low-tariff imports of Argentinian beef, though economists have said the attempt to lower costs for US consumers will likely have little impact on prices.
A White House official said in October that Trump
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Canada and France open Greenland consulates in show of Denmark support
Founding of diplomatic outposts in Nuuk comes after US made efforts to secure control of Arctic island
Canada and France are to open diplomatic
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