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According to UN experts and other analysts, more than half – and by some estimates as much as 70% – of Sudan’s gold is smuggled out of the country each year. The RSF controls most goldfields in Darfur and Kordofan – in the western and central areas of the country, …

In return, Matlala plead guilty to corruption, fraud and money-laundering charges. He was also required to turn state witness and testify at future trials, where 12 suspects, including police chief Gen Fannie Masemola would be in the dock. Masemola denies all charges against him. Last week, however, a magistrate said …

A Sudanese court has sentenced the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo to death for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide over atrocities committed in the West Darfur region. The court in Port Sudan, an area under the control of the army, convicted Dagalo …

A man suspected of killing his wife and two daughters in Bedfordshire has been in court in South Africa after UK authorities submitted an application to extradite him. Nothabo Zandile Tshuma, 42, and her daughters Natalie, 15, and Nala, five, were found dead by police in a house in Great …

One of the earlier personalities to break the norm over male surnames was Peter Kĩgia, a Kenyan musician who chose his mother’s name as his stage name. Kĩgia wa Esther (son of Esther), now in his 60s, is known for playing benga – fast, rhythmic guitar folk music with lyrics …

The Ugandan government says at least 16 people have died from hunger in recent weeks in the north-eastern region of Karamoja due to a prolonged drought. Farmers say they’ve lost crops because the area received little or no rain since April – the beginning of the planting season. Experts warn …

Morocco fan reflects on their World Cup journey. BBC News

Watch as the Egyptian football team return to a hero’s welcome from their fans. BBC News

South Africa’s Zulu king has expressed “deep” regret after a leaked video captured him hurling a barrage of insults at one of his wives. In the video, which was widely shared on Wednesday, King Misuzulu kaZwelithini threatened to physically assault Queen Nomzamo Myeni, accused her of having an affair and …

South Africa’s Zulu king has expressed “deep” regret after a leaked video captured him hurling a barrage of insults at one of his wives. In the video, which was widely shared on Wednesday, King Misuzulu kaZwelithini threatened to physically assault Queen Nomzamo Myeni, accused her of having an affair and …

Watch the bizarre moment Morocco’s press conference was disrupted by two journalists arguing, leading to a very perplexed-looking Brahim Diaz. BBC News

BBC Verify looks at multiple incidents linked to misinformation during latest Ebola outbreak, which has infected more than 1,700 people and killed 580 in DR Congo since mid-May. BBC News

Meanwhile, the immigrants and the refugees think that being seen playing soccer may help them gain acceptance in the US. “I feel like some people just see immigrants as these kind of people that have nowhere else to be and they come in their country and don’t do anything,” Deji …

A Ghanaian social media influencer known as Abu Trica, whose real name is Frederick Kumi, has been extradited to the US to face trial for allegedly running a romance scam that defrauded elderly Americans of over $8m (£5.9m). He denies all the charges against him. Prosecutors said he used AI …

Uganda’s judiciary has pushed back against a directive by the country’s lawyers’ association instructing its members to stop addressing judges as “My Lord” or “My Lady” and to abandon the longstanding practice of bowing before them. In the directive, the Uganda Law Society (ULS) said such “feudal and colonial honorifics” …

A recent assessment, external by the charity ActionAid in Ituri suggested about a third of respondents did not believe Ebola was a real disease, instead viewing it as a spiritual phenomenon or the product of sorcery. “Ebola misinformation is Ebola’s greatest ally,” Dr Wessam Mankoula from the Africa Centres for …

The ICC has been investigating allegations of war crimes in Darfur for more than 20 years since the previous round of violence in the 2000s. “What we see is patterns of offending that in fact were the same patterns of offending 20 years ago when this situation was first referred …

Nigeria’s president has ordered a corruption investigation into allegations that a fictitious government agency was set up within his own office, complete with public funding worth $950,000 (£700,000). According to the presidency, the letter from the president’s chief of staff creating the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) had been …

A 27-year-old university student, Sarah was at a crowded fuel station in the city of el-Obeid, on the front line of Sudan’s civil war, when a drone struck without warning. She says the station lit up before everything went dark. “In front of us there were injured people, blood, burnt …

Diplomatic tensions between the two nations heightened after a video went viral of Emmanuel Asamoah, a young Ghanaian living in South Africa, being confronted and told to ”go fix his country”. Ghana has since repatriated more than 900 of its citizens from South Africa, and the last batch of over …