The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention , Africa CDC has announced a surge in Ebola Virus Disease cases in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The outbreak, concentrated in the Mongwalu and Rwampara health zones, has already seen approximately 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths. Preliminary laboratory results…
Sudan’s Prime Minister, Kamil Idris, has announced the return of the country’s government to Khartoum, nearly three years after it relocated to Port Sudan following the outbreak of civil war. The army-aligned government fled the capital in April 2023 after fighting erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF),…
Senegal booked their place in the quarter-finals of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations with a 3–1 win over Sudan in Tangiers on Saturday, a result that largely followed expectations given the 99-place gap between the two sides in the FIFA rankings. Teenage substitute Ibrahim Mbaye sealed the victory just four minutes after coming on,…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed that 114 people, including 63 children, were killed in what it described as “senseless” aerial strikes on a kindergarten and a hospital in South Kordofan, Sudan, last week. According to local officials, a paramilitary drone attack on Thursday targeted the army-held town of Kalogi, striking a kindergarten first,…
Artillery shelling and air strikes killed at least 56 people across greater Khartoum on Saturday, according to a medical source and Sudanese activists. Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a battle for power since April 2023 that has intensified this month with the army fighting to take…
