Africa

Twenty-four female students who were kidnapped from their boarding school last week in the country’s northwest have been released, the presidency announced on Tuesday.

A plane carrying food aid for international charity Samaritan’s Purse crashed in South Sudan’s Unity State on Tuesday, killing all three crew members, an official from the charity said.

The kidnapped daughter of an exiled Burkina Faso general and ex-foreign minister has been released after more than a year in captivity, her family said on Tuesday.

Sudan’s army said on Tuesday it had repelled a Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attack on a strategic city in southern Kordofan, a day after the RSF declared a unilateral three-month ceasefire.

Gunmen have abducted 10 women and children in the latest kidnapping to rock Nigeria, police said on Tuesday.

Zambia’s president has warned against politically motivated unrest in a strongly worded address on Tuesday, days before a planned demonstration against proposed constitutional amendments.

RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo said on Monday that his forces and allied groups had agreed to an immediate humanitarian ceasefire that includes a halt to all hostile actions for three months.

The US insists that the plan be accepted in its original form although the Sudanese army has set preconditions, says US envoy Massad Boulo.

Robert Purkiss is accused of murdering 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru near an army training camp in 2012.

Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba said the funds meant for the national celebrations will instead be used to repair infrastructure damaged during the post election riots