The former prime minister and opposition politician was on trial over accusations of "hateful and xenophobic messages" and "being complicit in murder".

The American nuclear bomb attack on the Japanese city on 9 August 1945 killed around 70,000 people and left many more physically and psychologically scarred for life. In a ceremony, survivors and ...

The war-torn country has seen a cholera outbreak slowly make its way through all states since July 2024. Among the most vulnerable parts of the population are refugees.

New trade tariffs imposed by US president Donald Trump came into effect on Thursday. Countries like South Africa and Lesotho are also hard-hit and are still hoping to re-negotiate the tariffs in the ...

Just a week after the Ivorian president announced his intention to run for a controversial fourth term this October, ...

Since January 2025, nearly 600 people—many fleeing conflicts in Sudan, South Sudan, and the DRC—have entered Uganda each day.

Ghana has opened investigations into the crash of a military helicopter that killed all eight people aboard, including the ...

On July 30th, UN experts reported that extremist groups in West Africa, like the al-Qaida-linked Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin group, known as JNIM, and East Africa's al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab ha ...

A plane belonging to an air ambulance service provider crashed in a residential area just outside Kenya's capital on Thursday ...

A wealthy businessman on Thursday became the head of Haiti's transitional presidential council tasked with restoring order in ...

The decision, agreed in a late-night meeting of its security Cabinet, marks a further escalation of Israel's 22-month war on ...

It followed a US embassy alert Wednesday which warned of 'hazardous and carcinogenic substances' in Chambisi, an area in ...