Africa Archives - Businessday NG https://businessday.ng/category/africa/ Mon, 24 Apr 2023 11:54:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 188198514 What you need to know about the war in Sudan https://businessday.ng/africa/article/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-in-sudan/ https://businessday.ng/africa/article/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-in-sudan/#respond Mon, 24 Apr 2023 11:54:48 +0000 https://businessday.ng/?p=724292 Sudan generals

Two rival armies are driving Sudan, the third-largest country in Africa, toward a full-blown civil war. Fighting between the two generals is tearing apart cities and towns across the country, including the capital Khartoum. Over the weekend, tensions between the armed forces chief, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the head of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary […]

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His battle against the commander of the armed forces is currently engulfing the country Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo’s advance through life, from successful camel trader and commander of a horseback militia to a general fighting for absolute control of Sudan, is a story of marginalisation and revenge. The paramilitary leader, better known as Hemeti, has journeyed […]

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Former allies depict each other as ‘criminals’ in separate interviews Sudan’s battling generals branded each other “criminals” responsible for civilian deaths, as they escalated a war of words that suggested there was little room for compromise in their fight for Africa’s third-largest country. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, Sudan’s vice-president and commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support […]

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Rift between president and deputy sparks fighting that threatens to erupt into civil war The fighting that has erupted in Sudan between the country’s armed forces and a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces pits the president against his vice-president in a struggle for control of Africa’s third-largest country. Both men had emerged […]

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]]> https://businessday.ng/africa/article/sudan-conflict-pitches-military-leaders-into-struggle-for-control/feed/ 0 722882 Pregnancy drives 42,954 schoolgirls out of school in Tanzania https://businessday.ng/africa/article/pregnancy-drives-42954-schoolgirls-out-of-school-in-tanzania/ https://businessday.ng/africa/article/pregnancy-drives-42954-schoolgirls-out-of-school-in-tanzania/#respond Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:37:52 +0000 https://businessday.ng/?p=721271 Pregnancy

No fewer than 42,954 schoolgirls dropped out of school between July 2021 and June 2022 after they got pregnant. This is according to a latest report by the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) of Tanzania on Monday. The 2021 to 2022 CAG report tabled in parliament in the capital Dodoma said out of the 42,954 […]

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