https://www.voashona.com/z/3218 VOA60 Africa inokupai nhau muchidimbu mumineti imwe chete yezvaitika muAfrica muzuva rose. Nhau idzi dzinosanganisira zvematongerwo enyika, mamiriro ekunze, mitambo pamwe nenyaya dziri kutsviriridza. Udzanai nekupana – VOA60. https://www.voashona.com/Content/responsive/VOA/sn/img/logo.png https://www.voashona.com/z/3218 sn 2026 - VOA 60 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:21:37 +0200 Pangea CMS – VOA Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi has until now rejected direct talks with the M23 and the government has not officially confirmed its participation. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---angola-says-direct-talks-between-drc-and-m23-rebels-to-start-march-18/8009709.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---angola-says-direct-talks-between-drc-and-m23-rebels-to-start-march-18/8009709.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 19:36:37 +0200 VOA60 Africa DR Congo: M23 rebels have set up their own administration and tax collection in the fertile, mineral-rich eastern territories seized in their recent operations, using the funds to support their war effort. The UN and DRC government say neighboring Rwanda is backing the rebels, which Kigali denies. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---dr-congo-m23-rebels-set-up-their-own-administration-in-drc-s-eastern-territories/8008371.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---dr-congo-m23-rebels-set-up-their-own-administration-in-drc-s-eastern-territories/8008371.html Wed, 12 Mar 2025 19:56:17 +0200 VOA60 Africa At least 16 people were killed and dozens more were injured when a bus overturned in an area of Johannesburg near South Africa's main airport early on Tuesday. The cause of the accident was not immediately known. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---south-africa-at-least-16-dead-dozens-injured-as-bus-overturns/8007077.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---south-africa-at-least-16-dead-dozens-injured-as-bus-overturns/8007077.html Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:24:54 +0200 VOA60 Africa Nigeriens are struggling to find gas stations which are open, and where stations are open, residents face long queues amid an unprecedented shortage of Super fuel, the most widely used gas in this Sahelian state of 26 million people. Niger produces oil but refines only a small amount of it. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---niger-hit-with-major-fuel-shortage/8005572.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---niger-hit-with-major-fuel-shortage/8005572.html Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:56:38 +0200 VOA60 Africa Ivory Coast: President Alassane Ouattara and his Ghanaian counterpart John Dramani Mahama called Wednesday on Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger to rejoin the West African bloc, ECOWAS. The military juntas that took over those countries after coups between 2020 and 2023 left ECOWAS at the end of January. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---ivory-coast-ghana-call-on-mali-burkina-faso-and-niger-to-rejoin-ecowas/8001409.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---ivory-coast-ghana-call-on-mali-burkina-faso-and-niger-to-rejoin-ecowas/8001409.html Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:29:06 +0200 VOA60 Africa The Rapid Support Forces and allied groups signed a transitional constitution Tuesday, a step toward establishing a parallel government. The paramilitary group has been waging a two-year-old war with Sudan’s army that threatens to split the country. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---sudan-rapid-support-forces-and-allied-groups-sign-transitional-constitution/7999056.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---sudan-rapid-support-forces-and-allied-groups-sign-transitional-constitution/7999056.html Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:11:39 +0200 VOA60 Africa The United Nations children agency, UNICEF, said Tuesday that 221 children, including boys, have been raped by armed men since the beginning of 2024 to date. The war in Sudan broke out in April 2023 between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---unicef-says-221-children-were-raped-in-sudan-by-armed-men-since-2024/7997475.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---unicef-says-221-children-were-raped-in-sudan-by-armed-men-since-2024/7997475.html Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:35:10 +0200 VOA60 Africa The United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) announced Monday it is closing its southern African bureau due to funding constraints. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---wfp-says-it-is-closing-its-southern-african-bureau/7995560.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---wfp-says-it-is-closing-its-southern-african-bureau/7995560.html Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:35:07 +0200 VOA60 Africa Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday a mysterious illness in northwest Congo that has surpassed 1,000 cases and killed at least 60 people might be malaria. Hundreds of people have tested positive for malaria in Congo's Equateur province. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---africa-cdc-unidentified-illnesses-in-northwestern-congo-likely-malaria/7992819.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---africa-cdc-unidentified-illnesses-in-northwestern-congo-likely-malaria/7992819.html Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:01:36 +0200 VOA60 Africa DR Congo: At least 11 people were killed and around 60 injured in twin explosions at a rally attended by M23 group and affiliated coalition leaders in the eastern city of Bukavu on Thursday. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---at-least-11-dead-dozens-injured-after-blasts-in-eastern-drc/7990482.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---at-least-11-dead-dozens-injured-after-blasts-in-eastern-drc/7990482.html Thu, 27 Feb 2025 20:38:10 +0200 VOA60 Africa The U.N.'s World Food Program said Wednesday that it was forced to suspend operations in and around the famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan's North Darfur because of escalating violence between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---wfp-pauses-food-aid-in-famine-hit-sudan-refugee-camp/7989208.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---wfp-pauses-food-aid-in-famine-hit-sudan-refugee-camp/7989208.html Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:41:12 +0200 VOA60 Africa International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan urged armed groups in eastern Congo to abide by international law. Khan arrived in Kinshasa late Monday night for talks with Congolese officials. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---icc-prosecutor-visits-drc-urges-armed-groups-to-abide-by-international-law/7987789.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---icc-prosecutor-visits-drc-urges-armed-groups-to-abide-by-international-law/7987789.html Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:39:05 +0200 VOA60 Africa Kenyan authorities said one of their officers sent to Haiti to help rein in violent gangs was killed in an operation in the countryside. Kenya sent hundreds of officers to Haiti as part of a multinational force. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---kenyan-police-officer-killed-in-haiti-in-confrontation-with-gang-members/7986382.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---kenyan-police-officer-killed-in-haiti-in-confrontation-with-gang-members/7986382.html Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:49:49 +0200 VOA60 Africa DR Congo: Residents of Bukavu formed long lines outside banks to withdraw cash, a scarce commodity since the M23 rebel group seized control of the city. Last weekend's looting and the rebel group's takeover of Bukavu made locals increasingly anxious about their basic daily needs. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---drc-residents-of-bukavu-increasingly-anxious-about-their-basic-daily-needs/7983685.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---drc-residents-of-bukavu-increasingly-anxious-about-their-basic-daily-needs/7983685.html Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:29:18 +0200 VOA60 Africa The M23 armed group is advancing on strategic zones in the eastern DRC after taking two key cities, Goma and Bukavu, according to the United Nations on Wednesday. U.N. Security Council members met on Wednesday in hopes of averting the widening of conflict into a regional war. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---un-m23-armed-group-advancing-on-strategic-zones-in-eastern-drc/7982286.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---un-m23-armed-group-advancing-on-strategic-zones-in-eastern-drc/7982286.html Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:37:57 +0200 VOA60 Africa The M23 armed group has committed "summary executions" of children in Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations on Tuesday. The U.N. human rights office warned that the situation in eastern DRC was "deteriorating sharply.” https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---un-accuses-m23-rebels-of-summary-executions-of-children-in-eastern-drc/7979441.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---un-accuses-m23-rebels-of-summary-executions-of-children-in-eastern-drc/7979441.html Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:10:42 +0200 VOA60 Africa Ten people were killed and three others injured in a partial building collapse in the town of Kerdasa on Monday. An investigation showed the collapse happened after a gas leak caused an explosion on one of the floors in the three-story building, state newspaper Al-Ahram said. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---egypt-ten-people-killed-in-building-collapse/7978042.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---egypt-ten-people-killed-in-building-collapse/7978042.html Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:37:54 +0200 VOA60 Africa DR Congo: M23 rebels have taken control of the strategic Kavumu airport that serves Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, the rebel group and a civil security source said Friday. The rebels also seized the town of Katana. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---drc-m23-rebels-continue-their-advance-in-south-kivu/7975307.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---drc-m23-rebels-continue-their-advance-in-south-kivu/7975307.html Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:45:54 +0200 VOA60 Africa Thousands of Nigerians who fled to Chad to escape jihadist violence in Nigeria’s northeast have returned after more than a decade. Around 3,600 refugees arrived in Maiduguri, the regional capital of Borno State, aboard trucks. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---nigeria-thousands-of-refugees-return-from-chad/7974054.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---nigeria-thousands-of-refugees-return-from-chad/7974054.html Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:15:11 +0200 VOA60 Africa Internally displaced people (IDPs) near eastern city of Goma board pirogues on Lake Kivu after leaving the nearby Bulengo IDP camp. They were fleeing renewed fighting between the DRC army and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels n the area. https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---dr-congo-internally-displaced-people-leaving-bulengo-camp-near-goma/7972559.html https://www.voashona.com/a/voa60-africa---dr-congo-internally-displaced-people-leaving-bulengo-camp-near-goma/7972559.html Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:03:08 +0200 VOA60 Africa