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Editorial: About a third of children were living in deprivation even before this week’s benefit cuts. This appalling situation can’t go on

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces vowed on Thursday there would be "no retreat and no surrender" and said they had "repositioned" forces, after rival army troops recaptured nearly all of central Khartoum.

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South Sudan's opposition said on Thursday the arrest overnight of First Vice President Riek Machar, long-time rival to President Salva Kiir, had invalidated their 2018 peace deal and risked plunging the country back into war.

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar, the long-time rival to President Salva Kiir, was arrested on Wednesday -- a move described by the UN as leaving the country on the brink of widespread conflict.

Sudan’s military says it has recaptured the international airport in the capital, Khartoum, after nearly two years of fighting against a rival paramilitary group

The Sudanese army recaptured Khartoum airport and surrounding areas, military sources said on Wednesday, marking another gain in its two-year-old war with a rival armed group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

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Boko Haram fighters disguised as herders killed at least 20 Cameroonian troops in a Tuesday morning raid on the Nigerian border town of Wulgo, local security sources and residents told AFP. Cameroonian troops are commonly stationed across the border in Nigeria as part of anti-jihadist operations around Wulgo, which is…