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Al Shabaab attacks African peacekeepers in Somalia, big death toll feared

Islamist al Shabaab militants attacked a military base housing Ugandan forces with the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia on Friday, and a Somali army captain said both sides suffered heavy casualties.

Reuters · May 26, 2023

British man, 85, ‘shot and wife starved to death’ after being left in Sudan

Family say couple were not offered support to evacuate despite living near British embassy in Khartoum

The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2023

British man left in Sudan shot by sniper before wife dies of starvation

The UK Foreign Office said the case was ‘extremely sad’

The Independent UK · May 26, 2023

Sudan’s warring sides accuse each other of violating ceasefire

The truce between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces was reached after 5 weeks of warfare in Sudan.

Al Jazeera · May 25, 2023

‘The war we know is better’: Palestinians leave Sudan for Gaza

Adel Atallah escaped the Israeli blockade of Gaza in 2007 to build a life in Sudan, only to flee conflict once again.

Al Jazeera · May 25, 2023

The Guardian view on Sudan’s civilians: important, not incidental

Editorial: While the generals wage war, millions are paying the price. The country’s future cannot be safeguarded by strongmen

The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2023

One of Rwanda's most wanted genocide suspects arrested in South Africa

One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda’s genocide, a police officer suspected of orchestrating the killing of more than 2,000 people at a church nearly three decades ago, has been arrested in South Africa after 22 years on the run, a special tribunal set up by the United Nations…

France 24 · May 25, 2023

Women kidnapped by separatists in anglophone Cameroon released

Thirty women kidnapped by pro-independence rebels in western Cameroon earlier this week have been released, some with serious injuries.

Radio France Internationale · May 25, 2023

One of Rwanda's most wanted genocide suspects arrested in South Africa after 22 years on run

One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda's genocide, a man suspected of orchestrating the killing of more than 2,000 people, has been arrested in South Africa after 22 years on the run

The Independent UK · May 25, 2023

‘I have been waiting a long time to be arrested’: Rwandan war criminal tracked to South Africa

Fulgence Kayishema, involved in the killing of over 2000 Tutsis, was found working on a farm in wine country near Cape Town

The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2023