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A massive fire which scorched through more than a third of Namibia’s best-known national park is no longer active, government authorities said Wednesday.The blaze at Etosha National Park, a top tourist site and one of Africa’s largest game reserves, broke out on September 22 and spread rapidly due to high winds and parched vegetation.It forced …

Namibia national park fire no longer active: govtWed, 01 Oct 2025 18:49:30 GMT Read More »

British primatologist Jane Goodall imitated chimpanzees, sat with them in trees and shared their bananas during her trail-blazing research in Tanzania into the apes’ true nature.Acclaimed for her discoveries she later morphed into a wildlife crusader, criss-crossing the world to plead the cause of human’s closest ape relatives and the wider planet.She died, aged 91, …

Jane Goodall: crusader for chimpanzees and the planetWed, 01 Oct 2025 18:37:50 GMT Read More »

Anti-government protesters in Madagascar held fresh demonstrations Wednesday and called for a general strike, seeking to force President Andry Rajoelina to step down, after nearly a week of action by the youth-led movement.Police shot tear gas at protesters in the centre of the capital Antananarivo, where some 10,000 clashed Tuesday with police, although life had …

Madagascar anti-government protesters call for general strikeWed, 01 Oct 2025 17:51:46 GMT Read More »

A South African court on Wednesday found firebrand opposition leader Julius Malema guilty of violating gun laws for firing an assault rifle at a 2018 rally.Malema, leader of the radical anti-capitalist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, is known for fiery speeches and courting political tensions both at home and abroad.The 44-year-old and his former bodyguard …

S.African court finds radical politician Malema guilty on gun chargesWed, 01 Oct 2025 14:54:15 GMT Read More »

Behind a high fence, 20 minutes east of South Africa’s capital Pretoria, the Afrikaner enclave of Kleinfontein stands as a postcard from the country’s bitter past and is now entangled in a very present-day dispute.Moving into the gated community of around 1,500 white Afrikaners entails rigorous screenings and motivational interviews to co-opt residents on an …

Kleinfontein, an Afrikaner-only relic from S.Africa’s pastWed, 01 Oct 2025 13:30:20 GMT Read More »

Thousands of protesters marched in fresh street demonstrations in Madagascar on Tuesday and police fired tear gas and rubber bullets, AFP journalists saw, despite President Andry Rajoelina sacking his government in a bid to quell days of deadly unrest.Inspired by “Gen Z” protests in Indonesia and Nepal, the youth-led movement has taken aim at ingrained …

New youth-led protests hit Madagascar despite government’s dismissalTue, 30 Sep 2025 19:36:58 GMT Read More »

A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday sentenced ex-president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia for “treason”.Kabila, 54, who was neither present nor represented at the trial in the capital, Kinshasa, was found guilty of complicity with the M23 anti-government armed group, which has seized swathes of the resource-rich Congolese east …

DR Congo ex-president Kabila sentenced to death in absentia for ‘treason’Tue, 30 Sep 2025 19:20:24 GMT Read More »

Thousands of protesters marched in fresh street demonstrations in Madagascar Tuesday and police fired tear gas and rubber bullets, AFP journalists saw, after President Andry Rajoelina sacked his government in a bid to quell days of deadly unrest.Inspired by “Gen Z” protests in Indonesia and Nepal, the youth-led movement has taken aim at ingrained misgovernance, …

New youth-led protests in Madagascar despite government’s dismissalTue, 30 Sep 2025 17:46:51 GMT Read More »

Ex-president Joseph Kabila was catapulted to power aged 29 and ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo for nearly two decades, but after two years in self-imposed exile and a surprise reappearance in the restive east this year he now faces the death penalty.Kabila, 54, who on Tuesday was sentenced to death in absentia for “treason”, …

DR Congo’s Joseph Kabila, from president to death sentenceTue, 30 Sep 2025 17:08:07 GMT Read More »

South Africa’s ambassador to France, formerly a long-serving cabinet minister, was found dead on Tuesday at a Paris hotel in what is being treated as a possible suicide, the Paris prosecutor said.The body of Nkosinathi Emmanuel Nathi Mthethwa, 58, a close associate of South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, was found in the interior courtyard …

South African ambassador found dead at Paris hotel in possible suicide: prosecutorTue, 30 Sep 2025 17:07:20 GMT Read More »