Air strikes pummelled Khartoum yesterday and fighting raged in Sudan’s western Darfur region, witnesses said, as a three-month war between the army and rival paramilitaries showed no signs of abating.

A prickly American caterpillar’s trauma-inducing venom can punch a hole in cells thanks to a mechanism inherited 400 million years ago from bacteria, a team of Australian scientists said yesterday.

Conflict-torn Sudan is on the brink of a “full-scale civil war” that could destabilise the entire region, the United Nations warned yesterday, after an air strike on a residential area killed around two dozen civilians.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said yesterday that next month’s BRICS summit, which Vladimir Putin has been invited to, will be held in-person despite an arrest warrant on the Russian leader.

Gunmen from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces were accused of attacking a remote town yesterday before going on a shooting and looting rampage that witnesses said “terrorised” its people.

At least 16 people, including children, have died after a gas leak at a South African slum near Johannesburg, emergency services said Thursday, revising the death toll after some people were resuscitated

Fierce battles broke out across Omdurman, the western part of Sudan’s wider capital, yesterday as the army tried cut off supply routes used by its paramilitary rivals to bring reinforcements into the city.

Five people have been killed and 11 others injured after suspected jihadists fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a town in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, two anti-jihadist militia commanders told AFP yesterday.

The UN Security Council on Friday ended a decade-old peacekeeping mission in Mali, whose military junta has aligned with Russia and demanded the withdrawal of the international force battling jihadists

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's political career evaporated on Friday as a majority of federal electoral court (TSE) justices voted to bar him from public office until 2030 for his conduct during last year's fraught election

A Canadian-flagged ship today brought ashore debris from the Titan submersible that imploded while on a voyage to the century-old wreck of the Titanic earlier this month, killing all five people on board..Video from the Canadian Broadcast Corporation showed what appeared to be the nose of

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was staring into the political abyss on Tuesday when a federal electoral court (TSE) justice voted to bar him from office until 2030 for anti-democratic abuse of power during last year's fraught election

Explosions rocked Khartoum yesterday, more than two months after fighting broke out between two rival Sudanese generals, with each side accusing the other of attacks on civilians.

Heavy clashes broke out between rival military factions in several parts of Sudan’s capital yesterday as a 72-hour ceasefire that saw several reports of violations expired, witnesses said.

Clashes between farmers and herders killed at least 13 people in central Nigeria over the weekend, community leaders and local authorities told AFP on Sunday

Militants linked to the Islamic State group massacred at least 37 people and abducted six others in western Uganda, the army said yesterday, in the country’s worst such attack in years.

Air strikes killed civilians and pummeled multiple parts of the Sudanese capital today, residents said, as mediators pushed the warring factions towards a new ceasefire.

Peru's health minister resigned Thursday following criticism over her handling of a dengue crisis that has left at least 248 people dead and around 147,000 infected, a presidential statement said..Peruvian President Dina Boluarte accepted Rosa Gutierrez's resignation and vowed to "redouble

A semi-trailer truck and a bus carrying seniors collided in central Canada's Manitoba province on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 10 more, authorities said

The death toll from a Nigeria riverboat disaster has risen to 106 people as rescue teams continued to search for more survivors, police said yesterday.