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Burkina Faso has rejected a report that said more than 1,800 civilians have been killed in acts amounting to “crimes against humanity” in the three years since Ibrahim Traoré seized power. The government on Sunday called the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report “false”, dismissing the findings as “conjecture and serious unfounded claims”. The report has […]

Martha Ongwane looks adoringly at her bouncy, giggling four-year-old, unable to believe that just two years ago she had wanted to kill her. Non-verbal, biting and unable to sit still, her daughter Rachael, who had been diagnosed with autism, had slowly overwhelmed Martha leaving her desperate and depressed. She was shunned by her neighbours in […]

A 48-hour curfew has been imposed in parts of the central Nigerian city of Jos, after gunmen opened fire at an open-air bar, leading to deadly revenge attacks, local reports say. The police have confirmed that 26 people were killed. It is not clear how many died in the initial attack and how many during […]

Former New York Marathon winner Albert Korir has been banned for five years after admitting to doping. The 32-year-old Kenyan tested positive for CERA – a potent blood-boosting substance and modern variant of EPO – across three out-of-competition tests in October 2025. All of Korir’s results since October will now be disqualified, including his third […]

Football fans in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been waiting a long time to right the wrongs of their solitary World Cup campaign in 1974. That was the year US President Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal, the Rubik’s Cube was invented and Muhammad Ali beat George Foreman in the Rumble in the […]

Three people, two women and a man, have been confirmed dead after a three-storey building that was being used as a church collapsed on worshippers in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, on Sunday. Interior Minister Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak said 20 others, most of them women and children, had been rescued and were being treated in various hospitals. […]

The coalition poised to challenge Nigeria’s president in next year’s election has received a major boost after prominent opposition figure Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso announced that he was joining. Kwankwaso, a former governor of Kano state, said on Monday he was now part of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) – a day after resigning from the […]

Rape and sexual violence remain “part of everyday life” in areas of Sudan even when fighting in the country’s civil war has moved elsewhere, according to a new report by medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Calling rape a “defining feature” of the conflict, it says sexual assault is overwhelmingly carried out by armed men […]

Senegal paraded the Africa Cup of Nations trophy before Saturday’s friendly match against Peru at Stade de France – despite being stripped of the title earlier this month. Morocco were declared the winners of the 2025 Afcon tournament when the Confederation of African Football (Caf) overturned the result of January’s final. Senegal’s players left the […]