Africa

Groups of anti-immigration South Africans seized foreigners from their homes in Johannesburg on Thursday ​and handed them to police in a hardening of protests that have sown fear ‌in communities and strained ties with some countries.

A breakthrough has been made in the investigation into crimes committed during Sudan’s war in the Darfur region allowing prosecutors to link them to leadership.

South African police said more than 900 people were arrested on Tuesday, when ​there were nationwide anti-migrant protests which were mostly ​peaceful but occasionally descended into violence and looting.

Burkina Faso’s military government severed diplomatic ties with France, its former colonial ruler that had been a key security partner for the West African nation before relations fractured.

Anti-migrant protest groups have said they’ve set a June 30 deadline for foreign nationals who are in South Africa illegally to leave and have requested talks with the government.

Supporters of opposition political figures and state security forces continued to clash in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday after fighting broke out Wednesday evening ahead of a planned anti-government demonstration

The head of the World Health Organization Saturday arrived in Congo’s Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola.