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[The Conversation Africa] South Africa opened its G20 presidency with an ambitious message for a world divided by conflict and economic strain: solidarity, equality and sustainability. The Johannesburg G20 leaders' summit tried to mend deep geopolitical rifts. Even those who chose to boycott the summit remained included - with their chairs left symbolically empty.

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[The Conversation Africa] Djibouti's president, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, pushed through constitutional changes removing presidential age limits in October 2025. The changes enable him to remain in power beyond 2026. He has already ruled for 26 years and is a shoo-in at elections in April 2026. Guelleh leads a country on the Horn of Africa where the Red Sea meets the Indian Ocean - one of the world's most strategically important locations. Federico Donelli, who has studied Djibouti's political landscape, unpacks the dynamics that

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[The Conversation Africa] The terrorism conviction and life sentence handed down by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, brings an end to a ten-year legal battle. But it opens up a larger political and security question for Nigeria.

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[Dabanga] Hamrat El Sheikh -- A World Food Programme (WFP) truck travelling to Tawila in North Darfur came under attack on Thursday night in North Kordofan, injuring the driver and damaging the vehicle.

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[Dabanga] Kalogi -- A series of drone strikes on Thursday killed and wounded dozens of people, many of them children, in Kalogi, South Kordofan. The attacks hit a kindergarten and the entrance to a hospital.

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[UN News] The United Nations on Friday welcomed a newly signed peace accord between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda as a "critical step" toward restoring trust, while warning that active fighting near border areas continue to exact a heavy toll on civilians.

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[UN News] The ongoing emergency in northern Mozambique continues to worsen as prolonged attacks by non-state armed groups in Nampula trigger one of the largest displacement surges of the year, the UN warned on Friday.

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A military coup declared in Benin on Sunday has failed, the country’s interior minister said, just hours after soldiers took over state television to announce the dissolution of government.

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Once the team’s star forward, Mohamed Salah cast doubt on his future at Liverpool on Saturday, saying he feels like he’s been “thrown under the bus” by the Premier League club.

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[RFI] Benin's interior minister on Sunday said that the army had thwarted an attempted coup by a group of soldiers. President Patrice Talon's entourage said he was safe while the regular army said it had regained control.

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M23 rebels, supported by the Rwandan army are continuing their advice in the South Kivu region of the DR Congo, local sources say. On Saturday, the rebels took control of the strategic town of Luvungi, near the border with Burundi, and several surrounding villages.

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[allAfrica] After 30 years of bloodshed, proxy wars, and political theatre, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a peace agreement that many are calling historic. But in the Great Lakes region, where hope and disappointment walk side by side, it is fair to ask: Is this the beginning of peace--or another carefully choreographed illusion?

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Tunisia’s main union, the UGTT, has announced a nationwide strike for January 21 to demand wage-increase negotiations and protest an escalating government crackdown on critics.

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[allAfrica] Beninese soldiers appeared on public television early Sunday morning to announce that they had ''removed from office'' Patrice Talon, the head of state.

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A group of soldiers has appeared on Benin 's state television announcing the dissolution of the government in an apparent coup, the latest of many in West Africa.

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A message from the French embassy in Benin said gunfire had been reported near the residence of the president.

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Just over a week after seizing power, Guinea Bissau’s military says it has established a National Transitional Council.

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The death toll in Saturday’s shooting at an unlicensed bar near South Africa’s capital Pretoria has risen to 12 after one person died in hospital.

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Mohamed Salah says he has been "thrown under the bus" at Liverpool and his relationship with head coach Arne Slot has broken down.

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Drone strikes on a town in South Kordofan on Thursday are said to have killed at least 50 people.

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The eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is once again descending into chaos. Thousands of people are on the move, fleeing the intense fighting.