The military leaders who carried out a coup in Sudan on Thursday have sought to reassure people that their only concern is public order. A spokesman said Sudan’s future would be decided by the protesters who took to the streets to demand President Omar al-Bashir’s removal. But protesters remain camped out in the streets of […]

Sudan’s ruler Omar al-Bashir – who has been in power for 30 years – was removed as president yesterday and arrested by the military. The coup followed months of on-and-off popular protests that culminated in clashes between his loyalist security branches and the uniformed armed forces. Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf, the country’s defence minister and […]

Sudanese photographer Ola Alsheikh has captured the defiant and growing crowds outside the army headquarters in the capital, Khartoum. The woman above has written “Just Fall” on her arm, reflecting the demonstrators’ calls for President Omar al-Bashir and his government to resign. The sit-in began on Saturday and the protesters want the armed forces to […]

Two-year-old Thayi loves the aerosol therapy room at Senegal’s Albert Royer Children’s Hospital, where she gets to fall asleep on her mother’s lap, breathing deeply – something that is usually hard to do. The mask over her face pumps out medicine that soothes her asthmatic lungs, a condition worsened by air pollution. The hospital in […]

In our series of letters from African journalists, Zeinab Mohammed Salih looks at what is behind the wave of protests in Sudan threatening President Omar al-Bashir’s three-decade-long grip on power. Many in Sudan now prefer to keep their money under the mattress rather than in banks. If people put their savings in the bank it […]

Elements of Sudan’s military have acted to protect protesters in Khartoum after security forces fired tear gas to break up a mass sit-in, eyewitnesses say. Soldiers tried to chase away pick-up trucks firing tear gas, on the second night of a sit-in protest calling for President Omar al-Bashir to resign. Protesters sought shelter in a […]

Doctors in Sudan are emerging as a leading force in a wave of anti-government protests, but they are paying a price for their defiance. On Thursday, witnesses say a doctor was killed by the security forces amid demonstrations in the capital, Khartoum. The protests began last month over the economic situation in the country but […]

A suspected poacher has been eaten by a pride of lions in a South African national park after he was killed by an elephant. The man was hunting rhino when the elephant struck. His accomplices contacted the man’s family, who in turn asked rangers at the Kruger National Park, in the north-east of the country, […]

Fighting has flared in the suburbs of Tripoli as Gen Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) intensified its assault, despite a UN appeal for a ceasefire. An “urgent” two-hour truce was sought to allow the evacuation of civilians and the wounded from southern parts of the capital, where troops loyal to the internationally recognised […]

Thousands of demonstrators are spending a second night camped outside Sudan’s army headquarters, demanding that President Omar al-Bashir step down. They appear to be hoping for an internal coup, pleading with the army command to remove Mr Bashir and open the way for a transitional government. It is the biggest protest against Mr Bashir since […]