Leader of South Africa's second biggest political party to step down

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – The leader of South Africa’s second biggest political party said Wednesday that he will not stand for reelection for the leadership of the Democratic Alliance.

US authorizes short extension to longstanding African trade agreement

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) – U.S. President Donald Trump has extended a 26-year-old free-trade agreement with African countries that was left in doubt last year when his administration allowed it to expire while enforcing his policy of reciprocal tariffs.

Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of Libya's late dictator, killed in Libya

CAIRO (AP) – Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son and one-time heir apparent of Libya’s late dictator Moammar Gadhafi, was killed in the northern African country, Libyan officials said Tuesday.

Ethiopia's prime minister accuses Eritrea of mass killings during Tigray war

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – Ethiopia’s government Tuesday for the first time acknowledged the involvement of troops from neighboring Eritrea in the war in the Tigray region that ended in 2022, accusing them of mass killings, amid reports of renewed fighting in the region.

Sudan claims to have broken RSF siege in Kordofan

CAIRO (AP) – Sudanese troops on Tuesday broke a siege by Rapid Support Forces in the capital of the central region of Kordofan which was imposed by the paramilitary group on Kadugli early in the country’s nearly three-year of war, the miliary said.

Families mourn those killed in a Congo mine landslide

GOMA, Congo (AP) – After a landslide last week killed at least 200 people in eastern Congo at a rebel-controlled coltan mine, families of the deceased and survivors are mourning their lost loved ones, and some survivors prepared to head back to the reopened mines.

Aid agencies in South Sudan decry restricted access

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) – Humanitarian organizations in South Sudan said Monday that restricted access to the conflict-hit eastern state of Jonglei has left thousands of people in need of lifesaving medical care and food assistance at risk, as the United Nations raises concern over a growing number of displaced people.

Nine arraigned for deadly attack in Nigeria that killed over 150

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) – Nine people accused of carrying out a deadly attack in north-central Nigeria were arraigned before a federal court on Monday, charged in connection with the deaths of more than 150 people.

'Executions, torture, abductions, rape': Ethiopia's hidden conflict

Wanted by the Ethiopian government, rebel military leader Jaal Marroo moves constantly to stay ahead of drones hunting him from the skies. The rebel commander leads the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) from a series of remote forest outpost in Oromia, the country’s biggest region with a population of roughly 40 million people.