Africa

The 17th epidemic in DR Congo's history has become its largest and spread to Uganda and Kenya. There are no approved vaccines or therapies for the strain behind it.

The first country to send troops to Somalia, in 2007, will leave by August 2027. A funding shortfall after the US withdrew support for the mission's logistics is speeding the exit.

Six months after an offensive that killed the defence minister, Mali's junta still holds Bamako, and the army has returned to Kidal with Russian help. But the capital lives on escorted convoys, and the Sahel has become the world's deadliest terrorism hotspot.

The attack is attributed to the Rapid Support Forces. Drones have become the leading cause of civilian deaths in Sudan this year, and Turkish and Chinese manufacturers are profiting most from the war.

Satellite imagery from Yale University shows a city where life has practically stopped, hospitals with pits and a 75-kilometer berm around the city. The drone war is spreading to Khartoum and the power grid, while foreign backers of both sides go unpunished.

DR Congo's 17th outbreak is one of the largest on record. There is no licensed vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain.

Skull fragment DNH 127 from Drimolen pushes back the oldest adult fossils of the species. At the same site Paranthropus robustus outnumbered it ten to one.

The Sudan Doctors Network blames the SPLM-N faction of Abdelaziz al-Hilu. It says the attacks targeted the Otoro tribe.