Historians have shown that, during the 1800s, beads produced in Venice were a key commodity exchanged for ivory along the ...

The U.N.'s humanitarian aid coordination office is downsizing its appeal for annual funding in 2026 after support this year, ...

Today, crops, such as matooke, maize, beans, and sweet potatoes, which were described as food crops, have joined Uganda’s export list. In other words, they are cash crops too. Fishing, once a ...

In Unbroken Chains: a 5000 year history of African enslavement (Hurst, 2025) former BBC Africa Editor, Martin Plaut, provides ...

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have attacked a pre-school and other sites in the Kalogi locality of the state of South Kordofan, killing at least 116 people, according to a local official. The ...

A Navy admiral has told lawmakers that there was no “kill them all” order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as Congress ...

The Associated Press has selected its 10 best albums of the year, presented in no particular order and with a legend describing who might particularly enjoy ...

President Donald Trump vowed that the U.S. would work on securing peace in Sudan thanks to the urging of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Trump made the announcement while speaking to Saudi and ...

In 2021, Sudan’s military, in coördination with a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces (R.S.F.), launched a coup. But the alliance between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by Abdel ...

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The United Arab Emirates is arming a militia committing genocide in Darfur. In exchange for US silence, Biden got a Middle East partner, and Trump got cryptocurrency cash. Students in Khartoum hold up ...

The horrifying reports of the massacre of hundreds of Sudanese civilians after the Darfur city of El Fasher was captured by the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last week were the latest chapter in a ...