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Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo, known as “Hemedti”, has emerged as a dominant figure on Sudan’s political stage, with his paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) now controlling half of the country. The RSF scored a notable victory recently when it overran the city of el-Fasher, the last garrison held by the Sudanese army and its local allies […]
A gruesome killing in her own family inspired South African Leonora Tima to create a digital platform where people, mostly women, can talk about and track abuse. Leonora’s relative was just 19 years old, and nine months pregnant, when she was killed, her body dumped on the side of a highway near Cape Town in […]
The Trump administration will limit the number of refugees admitted to the US to 7,500 over the next year, and give priority to white South Africans. The move, announced in a notice published on Thursday, marks a dramatic cut from the previous limit of 125,000 set by former President Joe Biden and will bring the […]
A South African court has ruled that Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli’s 1967 death was the result of an “assault” by apartheid police, overturning decades of claims that it was an accident. An inquest held under the apartheid government concluded that Luthuli, the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize, died after being struck by […]
Shaken, scratched and left with just the clothes he is wearing, Ezzeldin Hassan Musa describes the brutality of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the wake of the paramilitary group taking control of el-Fasher city in the Darfur region. He says its fighters tortured and murdered men trying to flee. Now in the town of […]
“We are alarmed by the deaths and injuries that have occurred in the ongoing election-related protests in Tanzania. Reports we have received indicate that at least 10 people were killed,” Reuters quoted the UN human rights spokesperson Seif Magango as saying. Amnesty International in Kenya told the BBC that with communications down in neighbouring Tanzania […]
Cameroon’s Interior Minister Paul Atanga Nji says opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary will face legal action over allegations he incited “violent post-election demonstrations”. At least four protesters have been killed during clashes between security forces and opposition supporters since Cameroon’s election on 12 October, with 92-year-old President Paul Biya winning an eighth consecutive term. Tchiroma […]
Cape Verde and Malawi are set to make their first appearance at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) after securing their place at next year’s tournament alongside reigning champions Nigeria. In the lead up to their second round tie against Angola, Malawi captain Tabitha Chawinga said the expansion of Wafcon from 12 to 16 […]
A migrant sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison has been deported from the UK with no right to return. Hadush Kebatu was jailed after sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping, Essex, while living in an asylum hotel, but was mistakenly set free by prison staff on Friday. He was […]
Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said the US revoked his visa and banned him from the country. The 91-year-old author, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, said the US consulate asked him to bring in his passport so his visa could be cancelled in person as new unspecified information had come […]