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Members of the M23 rebel group stand guard as people attend a rally addressed by Corneille Nangaa, Congolese rebel leader and coordinator of the AFC-M23 movement, in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo February 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS//File Photo

Africa

Congo, M23 rebels hold first talks after months of conflict

The fighting has raised fears of a wider regional war, as Congo's neighbours Uganda and Burundi also have troops in the region

Factory workers walk home after work outside the capital Maseru in Lesotho, October 6, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

Africa

Trump's highest tariff will kill tiny African kingdom of Lesotho: economist

Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan gestures to soldiers inside the presidential palace after the Sudanese army said it had taken control of the building, in the capital Khartoum, Sudan March 26, 2025. Photo: Sudan Transitional Sovereignty Council/Handout via REUTERS

Africa

Sudanese army drives RSF from central Khartoum: witnesses

Members of the M23 rebel group stand guard as people attend a rally addressed by Corneille Nangaa, Congolese rebel leader and coordinator of the AFC-M23 movement, in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo February 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Victoire Mukenge/File Photo

Africa

Congo M23 rebels say they will withdraw from seized town to support peace push

Sudanese army members film themselves inside the presidential palace, after, according to the Sudanese army, they took the control of the presidential palace, in Khartoum, Sudan, March 21, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. Social Media via REUTERS

Africa

Sudanese army says it has control of presidential palace in Khartoum

M23 rebels sit on a truck during the escort of captured FDLR members (not pictured) to Rwanda for repatriation, at the Goma-Gisenyi Grande Barrier border crossing, March 1, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo

Africa

Congo says it will join peace talks with Rwanda-backed rebels on Tuesday

South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar addresses a news conference, as the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in the country, in Juba, South Sudan April 5, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Samir Bol/File Photo

Africa

South Sudan situation deteriorating at alarming pace: UN rights body

US President Donald Trump looks on in the Oval Office, on the day he signs executive orders, at the White House in Washington, DC, US March 6, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Africa

South Africa rejects 'megaphone diplomacy' as Trump backs funding cut

A farmer carries collected gum arabic from an Acacia tree in the western Sudanese town of El-Nahud that lies in the main farming state of North Kordofan December 18, 2012. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo

Africa

How a key ingredient in Coca-Cola, M&M's is smuggled from war-torn Sudan

A woman buys a sheep at a livestock market, ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival, in the Moroccan city of Oujda September 11, 2016. Photo:REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal/File Photo

Africa

Drought-hit Morocco asks citizens not to slaughter sheep on Eid al-Adha

A displaced Sudanese woman rests inside a shelter at Zamzam camp, in North Darfur, Sudan, August 1, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Jamal Jebrel/File Photo

Africa

UN seeks $6 billion to ease hunger catastrophe in Sudan

South African Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe speaks at the Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town, South Africa February 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Esa Alexander/File Photo

Africa

South Africa open to nuclear project bids from Russia or Iran: minister

M23 rebels stand guard during a meeting in Democratic Republic of Congo, February 6, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo

Africa

Congo rebels promise security in Bukavu after looting