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Western diplomats in South Sudan have urged the country to support a resolution by the United Nations to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The United Nations General Assembly will on Wednesday vote on a resolution censuring Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Dozens of states are expected to formally …

Five Sudanese football players died when their boat capsized in the Nile on Sunday, local media reported. The players were members of al-Milaha football team, a local team in Shendi town (150 Km; 93 miles) north of Khartoum. They were travelling on a boat to the west bank of the …

The Zimbabwean government has evacuated 118 students from Ukraine to neighbouring countries, state-owned Herald website reports. The students have been relocated to Romania (28), Hungary (15), Slovakia (26) and Poland (49) with the help of the country’s embassies in Russia and Germany. “They will be provided with air tickets to …

Nigeria’s Senate on Tuesday has rejected a bill of the constitution to allow citizens living abroad to vote in national elections, while a provision to allocate special seats for women to increase their political representation failed to pass, Reuters reports. While Nigerians are expected to go to the polls in …

The South African ambassador to Ukraine fled the capital, Kyiv, as a Russian armored convoy heads for the city and condemned discrimination against black people in the country, the BBC reports. Andre Groenewald said explosions could be heard in the distance as he packed the car to leave on Wednesday …

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to London shortly for the latest in a series of routine medical checkups, his spokesman, Femi Adesina said on Tuesday. Buhari, 79, has been dogged by questions over his health after he spent more than 100 days in London in 2017 receiving treatment for …

A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has temporarily removed control of a huge copper and cobalt mine from its Chinese owners. The court appointed a temporary administrator from state miner Gecamines to run China Molybdenum’s Tenke Fungurume mine amid a dispute between the shareholders over reserves of copper …

Mozambique’s publicly-owned Electricity Company (EDM) has signed a new contract to supply power to the Kingdom of Eswatini, local media reported. The contract will last for 17 months and provides for EDM to supply 20 megawatts of power, which could be revised depending on the needs of Eswatini Electricity Company …

The powerful son of Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has expressed support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Gen Kainerugaba – who is the commander of Uganda’s land forces – tweeted that “the majority of mankind (that are non-white) support Russia’s stand in Ukraine”. “Putin is absolutely …

The first group of Ghanaian students arrived at Kotoka International Airport in the capital, Accra, on Tuesday morning as they fled the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Ghana has become the first African country to evacuate its citizens fleeing the conflict in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion. “At 17 students …