Street clashes again shook Sudan’s capital yesterday a day after security forces shot dead 15 protesters in the bloodiest day since the military’s October 25 takeover.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday urged Africans to watch out for rising threats to democracy as he began a three-nation tour of the continent where he is also seeking momentum to end Ethiopia’s year-long war.

The UN voiced alarm on Tuesday at surging arrests in Ethiopia since the country introduced a state of emergency on November 2.

Armed police and soldiers patrolled the Ugandan capital yesterday as security was stepped up following twin suicide bombings claimed by the Islamic State that killed three people in the heart of Kampala.

Australia yesterday announced measures to ring-fence dozens of sensitive technologies from foreign interference, stepping up efforts to safeguard against “national security risks” from China and others.

Security forces shot dead at least 15 people and wounded dozens as thousands of Sudanese took to the streets on Wednesday on the deadliest day in a month of demonstrations against military rule, medics said.

Two blasts in the center of Uganda’s capital killed at least two people and set several cars on fire on Tuesday, local television reported.

Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest hit a new record in October, a Brazilian government agency said Friday, just days after President Jair Bolsonaro announced ambitious environmental goals at the COP26 climate summit.

FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last white president, who freed anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela from jail, died yesterday aged 85, his foundation

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voiced hope Wednesday that diplomacy would succeed in halting a deadly war in Ethiopia after major

Holed up in her lab, Brazilian atmospheric chemist Luciana Gatti crunches her numbers again and again, thinking there is a mistake.

Libya’s presidential council suspended Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush from her duties Saturday days before an international conference is to make a new push to restore stability to the war-battered nation.

Sudanese security forces yesterday fired tear gas at an anti-coup rally by teachers at the start of a two-day civil disobedience call against last month’s military takeover.

At least 99 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the capital of Sierra Leone late on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, local authorities said.

Ninety-one people were killed and over 100 wounded in the capital of Sierra Leone on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, the central morgue and local authorities said.

Police smashed their way into a suburban house on Wednesday and rescued a 4-year-old girl whose disappearance from her family’s camping tent on Australia’s remote west coast more than two weeks ago both horrified and captivated the nation.

At least six people have died in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos after the collapse of a high-rise building that was under construction, the state emergency services chief said on Tuesday.

South Africans started voting yesterday in municipal elections, with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) facing discontent over poor services and stark inequality 27 years after ending white minority rule. 

Sudanese security forces yesterday killed two protesters during mass anti-coup rallies, medics said, despite warnings from global powers who had urged restraint by the military.

Sudan’s ruling military has sacked six ambassadors and security forces have tightened their crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, even as international pressure against this week’s coup grows.