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A quarter of a century after their land was seized during a chaotic land reform programme that made global headlines, a small group of white Zimbabwean farmers have accepted a controversial compensation deal from the government. Once the backbone of the country’s agricultural sector, many of them are now elderly, visibly frail, battling illness and […]

A South African court has halted plans to bury former Zambian President Edgar Lungu at a private ceremony just as it was about to start. The news was only announced to mourners in South Africa after a funeral mass had already finished. This is the latest twist in a row between the government and Lungu’s […]

Dozens of people have been hospitalised for heat-related illnesses as the summer’s first major heat wave descends on eastern North America. More than 150 people fell ill at an outdoor school graduation ceremony in Paterson, New Jersey on Monday, according to US media, as the city’s mayor declared a state of emergency. In Washington DC, […]

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team rested their case in his sex trafficking trial on Tuesday after making arguments for only about 20 minutes. Their short presentation followed nearly seven weeks of arguments and witness testimony brought by federal prosecutors in New York. The prosecution finished making their case Tuesday afternoon. His defence attorneys argued that […]

Progress in vaccinating children against a variety of life-threatening diseases has stalled in the past two decades – and even gone backwards in some countries – a new global study suggests. The situation has been made worse by the Covid pandemic, leaving millions of children unprotected from diseases such as measles, tuberculosis and polio. The researchers […]

Mali and Russia have signed a series of agreements aimed at expanding mutual trade and strengthening economic ties. Among them is a pledge for greater cooperation on nuclear energy, according to details released by the Kremlin. The announcement of the deals came during a visit by Mali’s junta leader Col Assimi Goïta to Moscow, which […]

Nigeria is targeting the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games after its men’s and women’s teams were both victorious at the inaugural African Flag Football Championship. The sport is a non-contact variant of American football, where players need to pull a flag off the person with the ball instead of tackling their opponent to the ground. […]

There have been celebrations at the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea as communities from the frontier villages came together for the first time in five years. Separated by the closed border since the outbreak of the 2020 conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, and subsequent political tensions, Sunday’s coming together was a symbolic moment of […]

Three police officers in Kenya have been charged with the murder of a 31-year-old blogger who died in police custody earlier this month. Albert Ojwang’s death has sparked outrage in Kenya with protests held to demand justice. Mr Ojwang was arrested after Kenya’s deputy police chief Eliud Lagat filed a complaint, accusing the blogger of […]