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Guinean President Alpha Conde wrote to Saudi Arabia on Sunday offering to mediate in the crisis between Riyadh, its allies and the tiny nation of Qatar, with which they have cut ties, according to a copy of the letter seen by Reuters. Conde has had some success in helping to resolve regional crises, especially in persuading Gambia’s long-time ruler Yayha ...

Prime Minister Theresa May reappointed most of her ministers on Sunday but brought a Brexit campaigner and party rival into government to try to unite her Conservatives after a disastrous election sapped her authority, days before Brexit talks begin. The 60-year-old leader said she had tapped experience across the “whole of the Conservative Party” when she appointed Michael Gove, a ...

Eleven people were killed when militants attacked a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo and freed more than 900 inmates, officials say. The governor of North Kivu province said the attackers had used heavy weapons in the raid on the jail in Beni. At least eight of the dead are prison guards, Julien Paluku added. A curfew has been ...

Lusaka – Zambia’s opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema, facing treason charges, said on Friday he had been moved from a prison in the capital Lusaka to a maximum security jail in a small town. Hichilema was arrested in April for allegedly failing to give way to President Edgar Lungu’s motorcade and has so far been held in detention for two months. ...

Geneva – The UN human rights chief is urging the UN’s main rights body to establish an international investigation into killings and abuses in central Democratic Republic of Congo, saying at least 42 mass graves have been found there. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein made the appeal about the Kasai Central and Kasai Oriental provinces as the Human Rights Council holds its ...

Bamako – A powerful Al-Qaeda-linked group on Friday claimed an attack on a United Nations camp that killed three peacekeepers in Kidal in Mali’s troubled north. The Group to Support Islam and Muslims, a fusion of three Malian jihadist groups with previous Al-Qaeda links, posted a statement on its Telegram channel saying it had targeted the UN base “with a ...

Nigerian politicians have criticized a call to expel members of one of the country’s main ethnic groups from the north of the country, as tensions rise ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Biafran civil war. The governor of Kaduna State in northern Nigeria said he had ordered the arrest of the leaders of a coalition of group claiming to ...

Bald men in Mozambique could be targets of ritual attacks, police have warned, after the recent killing of five men for their body parts. Two suspects have been arrested in the central district of Milange, where the killings occurred. “The belief is that the head of a bald man contains gold,” said Afonso Dias, a police commander in Mozambique’s central ...

Polling stations have opened for people to cast their vote in the UK general election. Polls opened at 07:00 BST at more than 40,000 polling stations across the country, with counting starting once voting ends at 22:00 BST. A total of 650 Westminster MPs will be elected, with about 46.9 million people registered to vote. That is up from the ...

Thirty-one Chinese nationals, held for illegal mining in Zambia, have been deported. China said Zambia had provided insufficient evidence to justify the arrests. It said one of those detained in the copper mining town of Chingola was a pregnant woman. Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu visited China in 2015 to strengthen ties between the two countries Zambian media said the Chinese ...