Category: Africa

Mon 08 December 2025: At least 153 students and 12 teachers taken from a Catholic school last month remain in captivity. Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 100 children who were among hundreds kidnapped from a Catholic school in northern Nigeria last month, officials and local media have reported. The 100 children arrived in […]

Sun 07 December 2025: Benin’s Interior Minister, Alassane Seidou, announced that the country’s armed forces successfully foiled an attempted coup d’état in the West African nation. “A small group of soldiers launched a mutiny with the aim of destabilising the country and its institutions,” said Seidou on Sunday. “Faced with this situation, the Beninese Armed […]

Sat 06 December 2025: The Sudanese city of El Fasher has been described as a “massive crime scene”, featuring numerous large stacks of corpses scattered across its streets while the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group attempts to conceal the full extent of the killings they committed, the Guardian reported Six weeks after the RSF seized […]

Sat 06 December 2025: Armed attackers stormed a hostel in Pretoria, South Africa, killing at least 11 people—including a three-year-old child—and wounding more than a dozen others. Police said they had launched a “manhunt” for three people and were investigating whether the killings were linked to a bar within the hostel that may have been selling […]

Sat 06 December 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:  ◼️ Witness D’s Madlanga testimony ‘angered certain elements of our society’: President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed shock and sadness over the murder of Madlanga Commission witness Marius van der Merwe, who was gunned down at his home in Brakpan, Ekurhuleni, on Friday evening. Ramaphosa […]

Fri 05 December 2025: Sudan Doctors Network says ‘deliberate suicide-drone attacks’ targeted a kindergarten and several civilian facilities. The death toll from Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on a kindergarten and other sites in the city of Kalogi in South Kordofan state has risen to about 47 people – mostly children – with about 50 […]

Fri 05 December 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:  ◼️ SA breaks ranks with BRICS to vote for UN resolution: The reason is largely that South Africa has consistently championed the return of the Ukrainian children, starting with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s direct appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to do so when he […]

Fri 05 December 2025: United States President Donald Trump has hosted the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to sign a peace deal that could end the conflict between the two countries. Although the violence on the ground has not stopped, Trump hailed the US-brokered deal on Thursday as a new chapter […]

Thu 04 December 2025: Nearly 35 million people ‘projected to face severe food insecurity’, including ‘famine-like conditions’. Armed attacks, instability and aid cuts are pushing northern Nigeria towards record levels of hunger, the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. Nearly 35 million people in the north of the country are “projected to face severe food […]

Thu 04 December 2025:  Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:  ◼️ US will exclude SA from G20, welcome Poland into the fold: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Poland will assume its “rightful place” in the group of the world’s biggest economies. He confirmed that the US would not invite South Africa to […]