South Africa’s president, in Russia as part of a delegation pushing for peace between Kyiv and Moscow, on Saturday told his Russian counterpart the fighting had to stop.His delegation put forward a set of principles that the Kremlin deemed “very difficult to implement”, a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ruled out talks with Moscow.The …

South Africa’s Ramaphosa tells Putin ‘war’ must endSat, 17 Jun 2023 20:32:03 GMT Read More »

A blunder by Morocco goalkeeper Munir el Kajoui led to a 2-1 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying defeat in South Africa on Saturday — their first loss since reaching the 2022 World Cup semi-finals.Zambia completed a joyful day for southern Africa by hammering the Ivory Coast 3-0 in Ndola to secure a place in the …

Goalkeeper howler sinks Morocco, Zambia run riot to qualifySat, 17 Jun 2023 19:12:21 GMT Read More »

Militants linked to the Islamic State group massacred at least 41 people, mostly students, in western Uganda, the country’s deadliest such attack in over a decade, officials said Saturday.The military said it was pursuing the attackers from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), who also abducted six people during a raid on a school late Friday …

Militant attack kills 41 at Ugandan schoolSat, 17 Jun 2023 18:24:57 GMT Read More »

Malians appear divided over the military junta’s loud call for UN peacekeepers to immediately leave the west African country in the throes of a jihadist insurgency.The foreign minister called Friday for the UN Security Council to withdraw the nearly 15,000 peacekeepers from his country “without delay”, denouncing their “failure” to meet security challengesThe mandate of …

Hopes and fears in Mali after call for UN peacekeepers to pull outSat, 17 Jun 2023 18:04:46 GMT Read More »

Air strikes killed or wounded more than two dozen civilians in Khartoum Saturday, a citizens’ group said, as medics reported hundreds of wounded fleeing Sudan’s western Darfur region in worsening violence of a two-month war.The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) claimed to have shot down a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) fighter plane. A military source, not …

Sudan war intensifies with Khartoum air strikes, heavy Darfur casualtiesSat, 17 Jun 2023 17:59:15 GMT Read More »

Militants linked to the Islamic State group massacred at least 37 people and abducted six others in western Uganda, the army said Saturday, in the country’s worst such attack in years.The military said it was pursuing the attackers from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) after they raided a school late Friday near the border of …

Militant attack kills 37 at Ugandan schoolSat, 17 Jun 2023 14:35:28 GMT Read More »

South Africa’s president arrived in Saint Petersburg, Russia on Saturday ahead of talks headed by an African delegation pushing for negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow even as doubts grow they will bear fruit. The African leaders are attempting to make the continent’s issues heard after it has been buffeted by economic headwinds caused by the conflict. President …

South African president arrives in Russia as part of peace missionSat, 17 Jun 2023 13:33:14 GMT Read More »

Militants linked to the Islamic State group hacked and burned 37 students to death in western Uganda in the country’s worst such attack in over a decade, army and police officials said Saturday.The army said it was pursuing militants from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) after the cross-border raid late Friday on a secondary school …

Death toll from militant attack on school in Uganda hits 37Sat, 17 Jun 2023 11:20:46 GMT Read More »

In war-torn Syria, parents of teenagers missing in a shipwreck off the Greek coast are clinging onto hope their children might be alive, days after the tragedy.A fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized and sank off Greece’s Peloponnese peninsula on Wednesday, killing at least 78 people.While the exact number of passengers on the rusty trawler …

Parents of Syrians missing in Greece boat tragedy ‘pray day and night’Sat, 17 Jun 2023 10:53:30 GMT Read More »

Medics on Saturday said they are overwhelmed by the hundreds of wounded fleeing Sudan’s Darfur region, which has become an increasing focus of global concern more than two months into the country’s war.Residents of the capital Khartoum, hundreds of kilometres (miles) east of Darfur, on Saturday also reported fresh air strikes, gunfire and explosions there …

Medics say overwhelmed by wounded from Sudan’s DarfurSat, 17 Jun 2023 10:43:47 GMT Read More »