Some 3.2 million children are expected to face malnutrition in Sudan this year, the United Nations Children’s Fund said Friday. Aid agencies have complained of lack of access to the war-torn country, where both the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are accused of using « starvation tactics ». 

Plus de trois millions d’enfants âgés de moins de cinq ans sont exposés à des risques de malnutrition aiguë au Soudan, selon l’Unicef. Le système de santé de ce pays d’Afrique de l’Est est fortement perturbé par la guerre civile qui y fait rage depuis 2023.

In this week’s Across Africa, voodoo believers in Benin marry traditional faith with contemporary creativity to spread their heritage. The african manatee has come under pressure over the decades from poching and shrinking habitats but one Cameroonian biologist has been working to improve the chances of the freswater animal. Senegal’s …

Opposition leader Venancio Mondlane has returned to Mozambique from two months of self-exile. He had left the country late last year after presidential elections that he says were fixed. Hundreds of people died in a police crackdown on protests that followed the vote. Mondlane says he was compelled to come back …

Le calme est revenu jeudi dès le début de la matinée dans la capitale tchadienne, au lendemain d’une « attaque » aux motifs encore flous au palais présidentiel. 18 assaillants et deux militaires ont été tués, selon un nouveau bilan des autorités et un récit officiel mis en doute par certains opposants. …

People visit newly unveiled archeological discoveries, including 4,000-year-old tombs of high-ranking officials and artwork from the time of Queen Hatshepsut, at an ancient necropolis in the famed city of Luxor. The artefacts, unearthed during a three-year-long excavation, were found in the Deir al-Bahari area in the necropolis of Thebes on …

Calm had returned to the Chadian capital N’Djamena, a spokesman for the military-ruled government said Thursday after an armed attack on the presidential palace by a 24-member commando unit the previous day was crushed.

Le calme est revenu, jeudi matin, dans la capitale tchadienne N’Djamena, après une attaque menée par un mystérieux commando, la veille au soir, contre le palais présidentiel. Dix-neuf personnes sont mortes, dont 18 parmi les assaillants, selon le gouvernement.

The world’s largest humanitarian disaster continues to claim victims as the war in Sudan drags on. On Wednesday, 20 months into the conflict, the US called the actions of one half of the conflict genocidal and imposed sanctions on its leader. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, leads the …