Africa

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, on an official visit to Islamabad, delivered a written message from President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to his Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari.

Four Malian employees of Barrick Mining have been released a year after they were detained in the capital Bamako amid a revenue dispute between the company and the government.

The Sudanese army seized several areas west of Abbasiya Tagali in South Kordofan on Sunday after heavy clashes with the paramilitary RSF and its ally, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), witnesses said.

The Sudanese government has expressed its readiness to work and coordinate with the United Nations to achieve peace and security in the country and ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid.

Guinea-Bissau’s military rulers formed a government on Saturday days after taking power in a coup, as ousted President Umaro Sissoco Embalo arrived in the Republic of Congo’s capital Brazzaville.

Sudanese Sovereignty Council chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan discussed on Saturday with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki in the eastern city of Port Sudan ways to strengthen bilateral relations and enhance political and security coordination.

The gang that abducted a group of young women in Nigeria’s northeast state of Borno a week ago released the remaining 12 late on Saturday, a local official told AFP.

At least 20 people have died, and several remain missing after a boat capsized in northwestern DR Congo, according to local residents.

South African police said they arrested four men en route to Russia who are suspected of having been recruited to fight in the military there.

Seven people, including National Police Service reservists, were killed on Saturday in coordinated cattle-rustling attacks that hit multiple villages in Upper Eastern Kenya, authorities said.