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A man arrested in South Africa for threatening to release foot and mouth disease in Britain and the US was championing the cause of Zimbabwe’s white farmers.
Troops who fought alongside Ethiopian forces against rebels in the Tigray region have begun withdrawing – under a peace agreement brokered by the African union.
Tens of thousands of people have already died in Somalia as the UN declares an official famine. A key figure leading the African Union’s efforts tells Channel 4 News “we’ll be burying children soon”.
Intense battles have been raging around the Sudanese capital Khartoum between government troops and the paramilitary Rapid support forces.
For more than fifteen years the extremist group Al Shabaab has been fighting a bloody insurgency in Somalia.
Muslim passengers refused to distinguish themselves from the Christians, despite the demands of militants.
The US President says violence against women and genital mutilation have “no place in the 21st century”.
British Muslim convert Thomas Evans is reported to have died fighting for the Islamist terror group al-Shabaab in Kenya.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir flies out of South Africa before a court decision on whether he should be arrested on war crimes charges.
Al Shabaab claims responsibility for the bombing of a hotel in central Mogadishu killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens of others, including Somalia’s deputy prime minister.
Lindsey Hilsum
Many Libyans who fought to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi are in despair. They know their failure to curb the rise in Islamic State could be deadly for their disintegrating country.
Sudan’s government has “shamefully” denied the UN access to investigate an alleged mass rape by Sudanese soldiers against hundreds of women, the US says.
The Islamist group al-Shabaab claims responsibility for killing 28 non-Muslims on a bus in Kenya. Witnesses said the gunmen spared Muslim passengers but ordered the rest off the bus to their death.
Before appearing at the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity, Kenya’s President Kenyatta takes the unprecedented step of temporarily handing over leadership to his deputy.
Al-Shabaab’s attack on Kenya over the past two nights, in which more than 60 were killed, shows the group still poses serious threat to the region’s stability, writes Jamal Osman.