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A group of 59 white South Africans has arrived in the US, where they are to be granted refugee status. President Donald Trump has said the refugee applications for the country’s Afrikaner minority had been expedited as they were victims of “racial discrimination”. The South African government said the group were not suffering any such […]
The bodies of a journalist and his partner have been found in South Africa in an advanced stage of decomposition, more than two months after they went missing, local media groups have said. Police said they had found human remains, but DNA tests still needed to be conducted to confirm they were those of radio […]
Opposition MPs in Ghana have fiercely condemned the suspension of the country’s chief justice, accusing President John Mahama of trying to “pack the courts” with justices who are sympathetic to the governing party, the NDC. Gertrude Torkornoo was removed from her post on Wednesday – the first time a chief justice has been suspended in […]
Rapper and musician Lil Nas X has revealed he is suffering from a sudden partial paralysis of the face. Posting to Instagram from hospital, the star told his 10.4 million followers that he has “lost control” of the right-hand side of his face. “This is me doing a full smile right now, by the way,” […]
“She left no last words. She was dead when she was carried away,” says Hafiza quietly, as she describes how her mother was killed in a city under siege in Darfur, during Sudan’s civil war, which began exactly two years ago. The 21-year-old recorded how her family’s life was turned upside down by her mother’s […]
In the past year, we’ve seen growing threats to media independence across the world—from government crackdowns on journalists in Africa to controversial media laws in Europe. And now, the United States’ decision to defund the Agency for Global Media, which oversees outlets like Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, raises serious concerns about the […]
The Trump administration believes Ukraine’s leadership is “ready to move forward” with the US’s demand for a ceasefire process with Russia, according to a senior US state department official. The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz are due to arrive in Saudi Arabia for Tuesday’s talks with their Ukrainian […]
Genocide activist Turk Hansen believes Germany’s incoming government will make no efforts to finalise negotiations between Germany and Namibia on the Nama-Herero genocide. Hansen, who is based in Germany, told Desert Radio on Tuesday that the new government in Germany may even cut development aid in coming years.
Fierce fighting rages on in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma, as rebels and the army exchange fire. “All we can hear [are] gunshots around the city,” one Goma resident, who has been trapped in his house since the weekend, told the BBC. Residents shared videos of M23 rebels patrolling Goma’s main […]
Mozambique’s new President Daniel Chapo has been sworn in at a low-key ceremony in the capital, Maputo, that was marred by an opposition boycott following heavily disputed elections. In his first presidential address, Chapo, 47, pledged to “devote all my energies” to promoting unity and human rights in a nation scarred by post-election violence. A […]