Peru was rocked by further unrest Wednesday as demonstrators blocked roads and held mass funerals for those killed in violent protests that have gripped the country.

Twenty-eight bodies were found in northwest Burkina Faso over the weekend, the government said, noting an investigation was underway.

Eight soldiers and one civilian in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s war-torn northeast have had death sentences for murder and embezzlement.

Nine out of the 10 alleged July unrest instigators were released on bail of R3 000 following their court appearance yesterday.

Ten alleged July 2021 unrest instigators are expected to appear before the Durban Magistrate’s Court today.

All 20 suspects will appear before the Durban Central Magistrate’s Court on Friday on incitement of violence and arson charges, said the Hawks.

The suspects are believed to be on the list of more than 80 alleged instigators being monitored by the State. Meanwhile, two men were sentenced to jail by the Durban court on Thursday for public violence during last year’s unrest.

An organisation in Tembisa has launched a clean-up campaign following the extreme Tembisa protest last week

A year on from the July Riots, the threat of unrest is still present in South Africa – and global bodies are worried about future protests.

Bheki Cele said the State is monitoring 86 more people who allegedly incited public violence during the July Unrest in 2021.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to give his testimony to the SAHRC regarding the July unrest in his capacity as Head of State.

‘In his plea, Majola said, he knew of some people that participated in the looting spree, and one of them had given him the vehicle,’ said the NPA.

Five park rangers and a soldier have been killed in an ambush in a wildlife reserve in northern Benin near the border with Burkina Faso and Niger, its management said Wednesday.

Rare interviews with captured members of a jihadist group terrorising northern Mozambique point to low morale in their ranks and to an insurgency that is losing steam in the face of Rwandan forces.

“I don’t sing to avenge my family, but because other innocent people who know nothing about politics continue to die,” says imprisoned Congolese rapper Idengo.

The leaders of Mozambique and Tanzania met Friday to discuss the Islamist insurgency that Maputo has called in regional forces to help suppress.

Trucks bearing badly-needed food aid were stuck at a checkpoint outside Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region for a second day Tuesday, aid workers said, as the government and rebels blamed each other for stalling the deliveries.

Thousands of Sudanese protesters rallied Monday calling for civilian rule and demanding justice for those killed in crackdowns since a military coup nearly three months ago, an AFP correspondent said.

Mutinous troops in restive Burkina Faso arrested President Roch Marc Christian Kabore on Monday and detained him in army barracks a day after staging an uprising, security sources told AFP.

Berta Soler, who leads the Ladies in White protest movement, was held ahead of a regular demonstration in support of political prisoners, former dissident Angel Moya confirmed to AFP. Long considered the only opposition group the Cuban government allows to march regularly, the Ladies in White movement is made up of the relatives of jailed […]

At least 70 people were killed in an air strike on a prison as Yemen’s long-running conflict suffered a dramatic escalation Friday that drew condemnation from UN chief Antonio Guterres.

Words are not enough to describe the fun and passion in their eyes as Nigerian refugee girls cheer on their side at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Growing up, Arega Tekeba’s fondest memories involved the feasts his father would prepare for Ethiopia’s Orthodox epiphany festival Timkat – the way he would lead their family in song while roasting a freshly-slaughtered sheep. But those memories are now acutely painful.

DR Congo police said Tuesday they had arrested suspects in the murder of the Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio who was killed in an ambush on his vehicle a year ago.

The influential son-in-law of Kazakhstan’s ex-president resigned as head of the leading business lobby Monday not long after public anger at perceived corruption in the Central Asian country boiled into a deadly crisis.