As the war in Sudan drags on, families are moving repeatedly to avoid the fighting. A generation ago, Christians and animists fled their traditional homeland of South Kordofan to escape the Islamist regime's campaign to eliminate non-Arabs and non-Muslims. Many settled in the non-Arab communities around Khartoum. Now, as war rages in the Sudanese capital, an estimated 160,000 of them have returned to South Kordofan, only to be engulfed in more violence.

Just because African leaders have links with Russia and China, it does not mean they do not want relationships with the West. They increasingly refuse to be forced into binary choices, a fact that France and the West seem not to have grasped.

However Sudan’s conflict ends, the international community must learn from past mistakes.

As African leaders arrived in Kyiv on a peace mission, air-raid sirens filled the air in the Ukrainian capital and there were at least two explosions. We give you the latest. Plus: We take a look at the latest business and culture news, including this week’s cinema releases with film critic Ashanti Omkar.

Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, never misses a chance to remind the African elite that the Soviet Union backed their liberation struggles at independence and during the Cold War. But will today’s African citizens benefit from President Putin’s friendship?

This has been a bitter year for Africa. Throughout 2022, the world’s attention has been on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while devastating conflict in Africa has not made the headlines. Sadly, this is nothing new, but it reminds the continent that the international community rarely focuses on more than one war at a time. Worse, that white victims command the greatest media interest.

One year after Sudan’s military coup, there is little optimism among civil society groups calling for a new constitutional settlement. Protests continue to rock the capital, Khartoum, as unarmed civilians demand democracy and justice. Impartial international rights groups report that demonstrations are met with disproportionate force. The military and its proxies are also accused of killing, beating and torturing ethnically Black African citizens in Darfur, South Kordofan, Blue Nile and Khartoum.

In this illustrated talk, Rebecca Tinsley says genocide will keep happening until we acknowledge that it is part of human nature - and take steps to prevent it.

At dawn on October 25th, several civilian members of Sudan’s fragile transitional government, including the prime minister, were abducted by the military leaders with who they were in theory sharing power. Yet, it would be wrong to classify this coup as a simple military power grab.

Although Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports that the Kingdom has finally revised its school textbooks, removing the most overt anti-Semitism and incitement to kill Christians, millions of the previous toxic editions remain in use around the globe, from Pakistan to Indonesia to Bradford and Minneapolis.

Survivors of historic neglect and abuse in Canada's Indian Residential Schools say they are not satisfied by Pope Francis's recent expression of sorrow.

The UK is making trade deals with countries condemned by human rights watchdogs and poor consumer standards.

If black lives matter regardless of where they are in the world, then it’s time to challenge the immensely privileged black African ruling elite that clings to power by persecuting its often-voiceless Black African citizens.