ONE of the worst droughts in living memory is sweeping across southern Africa, leaving close to 70 million people without…
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A VESSEL suspected by the Namibian authorities to be carrying military cargo intended for Israeli use in the ongoing war…
A UGANDAN man allegedly found with 24 human skulls may have been using them for human sacrifice and could face…
SPAIN will donate 500,000 Mpox vaccine doses to countries in central Africa suffering from a surge in cases, the government…
ARMED separatist rebels in Mali said Tuesday that an army drone strike had killed seven of their members a day…
AT least 60 people have been killed after a dam burst because of heavy rainfall in war-torn Sudan. Search operations…
TANZANIA’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has named a “troublesome” lion after one of the country’s opposition leaders. President Samia was…
AN armed group linked to al-Qaeda, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), has claimed responsibility for what it says was an…
TEN people have been killed in a landslide in northern Ethiopia’s Amhara region, according to state media, in the latest…
FAMINE is ravaging Sudan. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) – which claims to be the government of Sudan – took…
A MAJOR player on South Africa’s political landscape for more than a decade, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has been…
BERHANE Abrehe – a former Eritrean finance minister and fierce critic of the country’s president – has died in prison,…
SUDAN’s warring parties have ended peace talks in Switzerland by agreeing to improve access for humanitarian aid, with two routes…
THE second-largest diamond ever found – a rough 2,492-carat stone – has been unearthed in Botswana at a mine owned…
THE World Food Programme (WFP) says a convoy of humanitarian aid has entered the Sudanese region of Darfur, offering temporary…
THE last elephant in South Africa’s national zoo has been released back into the wild after 40 years of captivity.…
QATAR Airways has acquired a 25% stake in the privately owned South African carrier Airlink. The announcement was made Tuesday…
EIGHT police officers in Kenya have been suspended on suspicion of helping a suspected serial killer escape from custody, police…
“I want to go home,” Kenyan Eulita Jerop tells the BBC from Lebanon, where she is employed as a domestic…
MPOX cases and deaths are rising in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the central African country awaits vaccines…