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Indians in Niger await evacuation as military coup raises spectre of violence. Over 350 Indians, incl. Keralites, are stranded in the West African country. They are yet to get a final word from Indian Embassy officials. Thousands demonstrated in favour of the coup. Indians plan to move to Benin by…

Aminatou Ibrahim scoops water from the floor of her seven-square-metre hut at the Dana camp site for internally displaced people in Maroua, in Cameroon’s Far North Region. It’s become a familiar routine. Like some 500 others at the camp who have fled inter-ethnic violence, Aminatou lives in a makeshift hut.

Bangladesh is recording a higher number of casualties and infections from dengue as more than 360 people have died this year and infections of the mosquito-borne illness rise

Six cities hit by fighting in Ethiopia's northern region of Amhara, including the regional capital Bahir Dar and the holy city of Lalibela, are under curfew after the federal government announced it had "freed" them from militiamen. The region has been in a state of emergency since last week after…

Ethiopia’s government and residents say the military has recaptured several areas in the embattled Amhara region from local militia fighters

ECOWAS leaders will hold a summit to agree on a plan of action for Niger, where coup leaders refuse to stand down.

Tensions between local militiamen and federal forces sparked Ethiopia’s most serious security crisis since Tigray war.

UN officials say nearly four months of brutal fighting is driving Sudan to collapse with millions of people trapped in a “humanitarian calamity” and the possibility of a new ethnic conflict spilling into the region

The man, 40, took wrong turning from airport into Nyanga township, where protests were taking place