Africa

Nnamdi Kanu who leads the banned separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, faces terrorism charges, which he denies.

The Sudanese Armed Forces, operating alongside the police, intercepted the attackers, inflicting heavy casualties.

The last Ebola patient has been discharged from a treatment centre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the World WHO said on Sunday.

Kenya’s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has been buried at his ancestral home in the Western county of Siaya.

A French uranium mining company accused of partial responsibility for terrorists abducting some of its employees in Niger in 2010 is to be tried, sources following the case told AFP.

A Cameroon-flagged liquefied natural gas tanker has issued a distress signal after an explosion onboard while off the coast of Yemen.

The military had said 16 officers had been arrested over “issues of indiscipline”.

Burhan’s remarks came ahead of planned Quartet meetings in New York to push for a peaceful solution to the war in Sudan.

A resolution adopted at the party’s annual conference directs the government to “initiate the requisite legislative amendments” to implement the plan.

Large crowds of people were seen crying, waving Kenyan flags and at one point pushing one another in a scuffle at the Jomo Kenyatta Stadium in Kisumu.