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1. Sudan: Warnings of Preparations for More Mass Atrocities in Darfur as Conflict Intensifies Across Sudan

   [allAfrica] Amid ongoing genocidal war in Sudan's Darfur region - two decades after a genocide that mobilized global response - researchers are sounding the alarm about satellite evidence of new barriers being built around areas to which many fled for more safety. There are fears of a repeat of tactics used in the city of El Fasher last month - documented by the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health - where residents who failed to escape in time were surrounded,

2. Sudan: U.S. President Trump 'Personally Overseeing' Efforts to End War in Sudan - Washington Warns of 'Consequences' If Russian Red Sea Naval Base Allowed

   [Dabanga] Washington D.C. / London / El Fasher / Port Sudan -- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stated that President Donald Trump is personally overseeing efforts to end the war in Sudan, UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Tuesday said that the country requires a "global push" for peace, while the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Denise Brown, warns that killings of civilians continue in several Sudanese cities under siege by Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are preventing humanitarian aid from reaching those in need.

3. Mali: Hostage Video Shows Abducted Malian Journalists Asking for Help

   [RFI] Two journalists from Mali's state broadcaster ORTM have appeared in a video released by the armed Islamist group JNIM, more than six weeks after they were abducted in the centre of the country. Collgeaues have described the images as shocking.

4. Angola: Debunking the Myths of the Lobito Corridor

   [Maka] Luanda -- If hypocrisy needed a railway, it would look exactly like the Lobito Corridor. It is being hailed as a symbol of African progress. In truth, it is a mirror of everything negative the continent endures: Chinese debt, Western opportunism, Congolese blood, Angolan misrule--and a railway that connects foreign interests more efficiently than it connects the people who live along its tracks. It promises prosperity while delivering the same old extraction dressed in new flags.

5. Sudan: Acacia, Talh, and Heglig Seeds Sown Across 2,700 Feddans to Restore Al-Ain Forest

   [SNA] Obied -- The Forests National Corporation (FNC) in North Kordofan State has begun sowing acacia, talh, and heglig seeds across 2,700 feddans this season in the Miyiyat, Kitr, and Berak areas of Al-Ain Forest in the Wad Al-Baga area. Miyiyat are small soil basins designed to collect and retain rainwater, while Berak (singular: Birka) are natural rainwater catchments--both serving as essential water-harvesting features that enhance seed germination and seedling survival in dryland restoration.