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This is “one of the greatest things to have happened, not only to my art, but to Nigerian artwork”, 93-year-old painter and sculptor Bruce Onobrakpeya says as he looks around the rooms at the Tate Modern, one of London’s premier galleries. “The collection is fantastic and it brings back a lot of memories going back […]

A former Tanzanian ambassador and outspoken government critic has been abducted by unknown individuals, his family says. Humphrey Polepole’s brother told the BBC the alleged abduction had occurred in the early hours of Monday, at his home in Dar es Salaam. “We went to the house where he was living and found the door broken, […]

One of the most vocal critics of the Central African Republic’s government is being questioned by security officials following his arrest at the country’s main airport. Dominique Désiré Erenon leads the March for Democracy and the People’s Salvation (MDSP) party and had been living in exile in France for the past three years. He fiercely […]

The US has deported 10 people to Eswatini despite rights groups in the southern African state mounting legal action to block the plan. This is the second batch of deportees that the Trump administration has sent to Eswatini as part of its hard-line approach towards immigration. The 10 have been “securely accommodated”, and posed no […]

A Sudanese militia leader has been found guilty of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur region more than 20 years ago. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, was one of the leaders of the Janjaweed, a government-backed group that terrorised Darfur, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Kushayb […]

“I have your nudes and everything needed to ruin your life”. This chilling message was received on social media by US teenager Evan Boettler, from someone he had previously believed to be a young girl – in fact, it was a cyber-scammer. Just 90 minutes after receiving the first message, the 16-year-old took his own […]

Morocco is currently building what will be the globe’s largest football stadium in preparation for co-hosting the 2030 World Cup. But for the demonstrators who have taken to the streets each night across the country since last Saturday, this 115,000-capacity showpiece and all the other football infrastructure in development, costing a reported $5bn (£3.7bn), are […]

Seven al-Shabab militants who attacked a high-security prison in Somalia’s capital have all been killed, the country’s government has said. A huge explosion and gunfire were heard coming from Godka Jilicow – a detention centre that holds al-Shabab militants – in Mogadishu on Saturday evening. In a statement, al-Shabab said it released “all the Muslim […]

South African opposition politician Julius Malema has been found guilty of illegal possession of a gun and firing it in public, offences which carry a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison. In 2018, a video emerged showing the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader using a semi-automatic rifle to fire several shots in the air […]

Ahmed Abdul Rahman can hear the thud of artillery from where he lies in a makeshift cluster of tents in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher. The 13-year-old boy was injured in a recent shelling attack. “I feel pain in my head and my legs,” he says weakly. For 17 months the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces […]