Lacking support and feeling terrified, Mary turned to one of Sierra Leone’s traditional healers when she found out she was pregnant as a teenager, an ordeal that left her with permanent pain and emotional scars.Leaning against a veranda railing in an overcrowded slum on the outskirts of Freetown, she clasped her hands tightly as if …
South Africa arrested and expelled seven Kenyans who had been working illegally on a US government programme to accept white Afrikaners as “refugees”, the government said Wednesday.President Donald Trump’s administration in May offered refugee status to the minority white Afrikaner community, claiming they were victims of discrimination and even “genocide”, which the Pretoria government strongly …
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces destroyed and concealed evidence of mass killings they committed after overrunning the Darfur city of El-Fasher, a new report has found.Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), which has used satellite imagery to monitor atrocities since the RSF’s war with the army began, said on Tuesday the group “destroyed and concealed …
RSF destroying evidence of atrocities in Sudan: reportWed, 17 Dec 2025 13:34:16 GMT Read More »
On a humid Tuesday night in Accra, Zen Garden is alive with sound, movement and memory as Highlife melodies spill into the open air, drawing families, friends and office workers who sway long past midnight as if the weekend has come early. Under soft lights, the four young men of the Kwan Pa band strike layered …
Ghana’s Highlife finds its rhythm on UNESCO world stageWed, 17 Dec 2025 11:18:53 GMT Read More »
Abdoul Aziz Balde sobbed as he spoke of his son Idrissa, who left Guinea in search of a better future, but has not been heard from since capsizing off the Moroccan coast.”I know that the boat my son was on sank, but we haven’t been shown his body, so to say that the boy is …
South African authorities have arrested and will expel seven Kenyans accused of working without the correct documentation on a US government programme to accept white Afrikaners as “refugees”, the home affairs department said Wednesday.US President Donald Trump’s administration in May offered refugee status to the minority white Afrikaner community, claiming they were victims of discrimination …
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday sharply expanded a travel ban by barring people from seven more countries including Syria, as well as Palestinian Authority passport holders, from entering the United States.The latest move brings to nearly 40 the number of countries whose citizens face restrictions in coming to the United States solely by virtue …
The M23 armed group said Tuesday it would withdraw from the key city of Uvira in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at the request of Washington, which vowed “action” over the “clear violation” of a US-brokered peace accord.The Rwanda-backed militia seized the strategic city near the border with Burundi last Wednesday, days after the …
Thousands of Afrikaners, descendants of the first European settlers in South Africa, celebrated on Tuesday the “Day of the Vow” — a founding myth with values shared by US President Donald Trump’s administration, which has offered the group protection.On a hill overlooking the capital Pretoria, an announcer boasted that some 37,000 Afrikaners had gathered at …
Military rulers in west Africa’s Sahel region may well have celebrated had a recent coup attempt in Benin resulted in another anti-Western junta in their neighbourhood, analysts said.Not least because Benin lies on the coast and access to ports is crucial for landlocked Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger — whose rulers formed the Alliance of …
Sahel juntas would have welcomed a coup in Benin: analystsTue, 16 Dec 2025 13:41:05 GMT Read More »
