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More than a thousand people gathered Saturday morning in Mamoudzou to renew their support for the security operation “Wuambushu” conducted by the authorities on the island of Mayotte and demand a halt to crime and illegal immigration. “The citizen mobilization is important, it supports the action of elected officials who called this operation to claim our security and our freedom,”… Read More

Following an anxious wait for their families in the arrivals hall of Johannesburg’s OR Tambo airport, more than fifty South African citizens return home after being evacuated from Sudan following clashes between two rival generals. A ministerial delegation headed by South Africa’s international relations minister Naledi Pandor is there to greet them. “It was traumatic… it feels good to be… Read More

The door is open”: in northern Sudan, edlerly woman shares bread with displaced people. “The door of our house is open, we will welcome any guest who comes to us”: local resident Naamat Jabal Sayyid Hasan, 75, bakes bread in a mud hut as she does daily to offer to people fleeing war-torn Sudan passing through the northern town of… Read More

Port Sudan has become a focus for foreign nationals hoping to escape the violence by sea — with passenger ships making crossings to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. But despite the huge numbers trying to get out, there are some who are making their way back to the war torn country so they can be with their families. One passenger said:… Read More

Around 40 soldiers and 100 civilians have been killed in a jihadist “war” in northern Togo, President Faure Gnassingbe has said, in a ground-breaking interview. The small West African nation, along with neighbouring Benin, Ghana and Ivory Coast, is increasingly facing threats of a jihadist spillover from Burkina Faso and Mali. “We have paid a heavy price, especially our defence… Read More

On this episode, Jerry Fisayo Bambi and the Inspire Africa team bring you positively impacting stories in sports and education. First, we go to Burkina Faso to see the self-defense training program of Gloria Guissou Kabré, a well-decorated sportswoman in the country. Guissou Kabre having distinguished herself in Karate, a martial art is now offering training self-defense training to women… Read More

As the fighting between Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces enters its third week, more people try to leave the country. Explosions and heavy arms have been heard in the capital Khartoum even after the parties agreed to expand a cease-fire of another three days. Since the beginning of this violent part on the conflict more than 400 civilians… Read More

Medical staff working at the Al-Now Hospital in Omdurman, Sudan, have complained of lack of resources as they struggle to deal with the influx of patients. “There is a huge lack in the medical teams and a huge lack in the hospital’s facilities. In normal circumstances there are teams, now the shift is longer as not enough doctors exist, there… Read More

Nine very old riflemen, who fought for France in Indochina and Algeria, arrived in Senegal on Friday to end their lives peacefully, after a long battle with the French administration to have their “sacrifices” recognised. When the first of them walked through the doors of the plane at Blaise Diagne airport, installed in his wheelchair, white beard, dressed in a… Read More

Humanitarian groups and Chadian authorities need urgent funding to support thousands of refugees fleeing across the border from neighboring Sudan, according to the World Food Programme. The UN has said as many as 20,000 people have crossed from Sudan into Chad since fighting erupted between factions led by rival generals earlier this month. “It’s extremely urgent because in six to… Read More