Africa

Experts warn that the US military action in Venezuela could set the stage for normalising attacks against leaders of other nations that have been on the receiving end of confrontations with President Donald Trump’s administration.

The NGO employees were accused alongside 17 municipal workers.

Provisional results show President Faustin-Archange Touadera winning a third term after term limits were removed.

Nearly 65,000 civilians have fled the Kordofan region in southern Sudan over the past three months due to escalating insecurity, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday.

At least nine Nigerian soldiers were killed and several others injured when their convoy ran over a landmine and came under fire in Borno state in the northeast.

Uganda’s government said on Monday it was banning live broadcasts of riots, “unlawful processions” and other violent incidents ahead of an election in which President Yoweri Museveni is seeking to extend his time in office.

Angola said on Monday it had floated to President Felix Tshisekedi proposals to end the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and that the Congolese leader had found them “interesting.”

Suspected terrorists attacked the Morila gold mine in Mali at the weekend, burning equipment and taking seven employees hostage before releasing them, an official from the mining ministry told Reuters on Monday.

President Yoweri Museveni has said that Uganda has the military firepower, skill, and experience to effectively defend itself on land, as the East African nation’s long-serving leader reflects on the recent events in Venezuela.

Police in Nigeria’s commercial city, Lagos, have opened an investigation after multiple women alleged they were victims of gender-related abuses by Chris Okafor, a prominent preacher in the country.