The Russian mercenary group Wagner has been supplying Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) with missiles to aid their fight against the country's army, Sudanese and regional diplomatic sources have told CNN.

One of Sudan's two warring factions has declared a 72-hour truce after nearly a week of fierce fighting, which has left more than 330 people dead and pushed tens of thousands of refugees to flee the country.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni does not oppose a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill and plans to finalize it next week, Uganda's ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), said on Thursday.

Sudanese people and Western staff are desperately trying to flee the country's capital, Khartoum, where intense violence between rival factions is overwhelming hospitals with victims and multiple attempts to bring about a ceasefire have failed.

Half the hospitals in Sudan's capital are "out of action" due to intensifying clashes, according to a leading aid organization -- even as the number of casualties rise, with many of the injured in dire need of medical attention.

A group of leading global scientists and academics have signed an open letter urging Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to veto a hardline bill criminalizing homosexuality in the country.

For more than three days, students at the University of Khartoum have been trapped inside campus buildings as artillery and gunfire rains down around them in Sudan's capital.

South African prosecutors have dropped a murder charge against Zolile Sekeleni, the father of the girlfriend of high-profile convicted murderer Thabo Bester, who is accused of escaping from a South African prison after faking his own death in a fire, officials told CNN Monday.

Sudan's paramilitary forces besieged and shelled a hospital in central Khartoum on Sunday, five eyewitnesses told CNN, as fighting between militants and the country's military claimed nearly 100 lives over the weekend.

Intense fighting in Sudan is continuing for a third day, sparking growing alarm among foreign governments and international organizations as the death toll ticks higher.

Fierce fighting across Sudan has left hopes for a peaceful transition to civilian rule in tatters.

South Africa's parole board is hearing early release submissions Friday for disgraced Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, who was jailed for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

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Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the Hollywood film "Hotel Rwanda" and was freed from prison in Kigali last week, returned to the United States on Wednesday, arriving at the US Army's Brooke Army Medical Center at Joint Base San Antonio, according to a State Department official.

Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that "substantial elements" of a draconian anti-LGBTQ bill being considered by its parliament "have been modified" after an intervention by his government.

Five-time Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo has been announced as one of three 2023 Polar Music Prize recipients, putting the Benin-born singer-songwriter in rare company.

Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the Hollywood film "Hotel Rwanda" and had been sentenced to prison in Rwanda, has had his sentence commuted by the country's President Paul Kagame after his request for clemency, officials in Rwanda said Friday.

Ugandan lawmakers have approved a law which imposes a punishment of up to 10 years in prison for identifying as LGBTQ+, among other things.

The United Nations and United States on Wednesday added to international outrage over a hardline bill passed by Ugandan lawmakers that criminalizes simply identifying as LGBTQ+, prescribes a life sentence for convicted homosexuals and a death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality."