Sudan’s army chief is not ready to meet the enemy general he’s been at war with for eight weeks, a government official said yesterday after a regional bloc proposed a face-to-face encounter between the two.

Heavy clashes and artillery fire erupted across Sudan’s capital Khartoum yesterday and residents reported air strikes soon after the end of a 24-hour ceasefire that had brought a brief lull to eight weeks of fighting between rival military factions.

Six civilians were killed and 10 wounded in a six-hour siege by Islamist Al-Shabaab militants at a beachside hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police said Saturday

The Sudanese government has declared United Nations envoy Volker Perthes "persona non grata", two weeks after the army chief accused him of stoking the country's civil conflict and sought to have him removed from his post..Since late last year, Perthes and the UN mission he heads in war-to

Sudan’s army has been battling to defend a military industrial complex believed to contain large stocks of weapons and ammunition in southern Khartoum, close to fuel and gas depots that are at risk of exploding, residents said yesterday.

Palaeontologists in South Africa say they have found the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behaviour.

Former prime minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday received one of New Zealand’s top honours, recognising her efforts for leading the country through the Covid-

Shelling hit western areas of Sudan’s capital yesterday morning after rival military factions fought through the night, residents said, with reports of deepening lawlessness in Khartoum and in the western region of Darfur.

The United States and Saudi Arabia yesterday made a renewed push for truce talks between Sudan’s warring generals as deadly fighting has raged into its eighth week.

Australia plans to create a marine park almost the size of Spain around remote islands off its southeast coast, the government announced yesterday.

The UN Security Council on Friday called on warring factions in Sudan to cease hostilities, as fighting continued in the capital Khartoum after the collapse of talks to maintain a ceasefire and ease a humanitarian crisis.

Nine people have died in clashes across Senegal, the interior minister said today, after a court sentenced firebrand opposition leader Ousmane Sonko to two years in jail..A conviction for "corrupting youth" may disqualify Sonko, President Macky Sall's fiercest opponent, from contesting nex

Sudan’s army suspended talks with a rival paramilitary force yesterday over a ceasefire and aid access, raising fears the six-week-old conflict will push Africa’s third largest nation deeper into a humanitarian crisis.

Gunshots and artillery fire rocked the Sudan’s capital yesterday, residents said, hours before the expiry of a shaky ceasefire deal that had brought some respite from a six-week-old conflict but little humanitarian access.

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday defended his record on the economy and the outcome of a disputed presidential election, saying he was leaving a legacy of credible and fair votes, a day before he hands over power to his successor.

Fierce fighting between rival Sudanese forces rocked the western region of Darfur yesterday, witnesses said, as US and Saudi observers noted “improved respect” for a fragile ceasefire now in its fourth day.

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck yesterday in the Pacific Ocean to the east of New Caledonia, the US Geological Survey said, a day after a major quake hit the same area.

The brush-tailed bettong -- a rare, very cute marsupial resembling a rabbit-sized kangaroo -- is bouncing back on the South Australian mainland, more than 100 years after disappearing from the region.

The Sudanese army yesterday carried out air strikes along the River Nile in the north of the capital Khartoum as it fought to push back its paramilitary rivals after a month of warfare, witnesses said.

Armed attackers killed at least 33 people when they opened fire on vegetable farmers in Burkina Faso, the governor of the Boucle du Mouhoun region said on Saturday