By Jake Horton BBC News The World Health Organization (WHO) says there’s a “high risk of biological hazard” at a laboratory caught up in the ongoing conflict in Sudan. Officials said it was unclear who was behind the occupation of the National Public Health Laboratory in the capital Khartoum. The city has been […]
By Damian Zane BBC News In the middle of a forest not far from Kenya’s coast, piles of fresh earth topped with crucifixes await the attention of forensic experts. About 14 mass graves have so far been dug up and Hussein Khalid has spent the past four days watching people exhume dozens of […]
Sudan crisis By Mohamed Osman in Khartoum and Oliver Slow in London BBC News People are making “desperate attempts” to flee Sudan after more than a week of fighting there, the Red Cross says. The situation was now “untenable” for civilians left without food or water, and some hospitals had stopped working, spokeswoman Alyona […]
Sudan crisis IMAGE SOURCE, GETTY IMAGESImage caption, A convoy was seen on Sunday thought to be evacuating UN staff from Sudan By Laura Gozzi and Alys Davies BBC News Several countries have evacuated diplomats and citizens from Sudan’s capital as fierce fighting continues to rage in Khartoum. The US and UK announced on […]
Sudan crisis By Mohamed Osman in Khartoum & Natasha Booty in London BBC News There have been fierce clashes across Sudan as fighting between rival armed factions continues for a third day. Violence between the army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has left around 100 people dead, […]
By Tom Ford Gunjur Investment from China welcomed by The Gambia’s government is causing upset for a fishing community who say a Chinese-owned fishmeal factory is disrupting life on their shores. “I have been working here for 32 years,” says Buba Cary, a fisherman from Gunjur speaking in Mandinka through a translator. “It […]
By Ferdinand Omondi BBC News, Nairobi Kenyan police are investigating the deaths of four people suspected to have starved to death on the orders of the leader of a controversial cult. Pastor Makenzie Nthenge is alleged to have told his followers in the coastal area of Kilifi to starve themselves in the hope […]
South Africa’s bid to have two brothers from the wealthy Gupta family extradited from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has failed. Atul and Rajesh Gupta are accused in South Africa of profiting from their close links with former President Jacob Zuma and exerting unfair influence. The justice ministry said it had learnt with “shock and […]
By Becky Morton & Laura Kuenssberg BBC News Suella Braverman has insisted Rwanda is a safe country for migrants, despite evidence that 12 Congolese refugees were shot dead by police there in 2018. When presented with the evidence on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, the home secretary said she was “not familiar” […]
Burkina Faso has expelled journalists from two leading French newspapers, in the latest move against France by Burkina Faso’s military junta. Sophie Douce of Le Monde and Agnès Faivre of Libération arrived in Paris after being given 24 hours to leave. The expulsions follow the publication of a Libération investigation into a video which showed […]
