Mon 28 July 2025: At least 21 people were killed on Sunday in an attack on church premises in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by a rebel group, according to a civil society leader. The attack was carried out by members of the Allied Democratic Force (ADF) around 1 am inside the premises of a Catholic church […]
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Sun 27 July 2025: The charity says the deaths were caused due to funding cuts by international donors amid insecurity in northern Nigeria. At least 652 children have died from malnutrition in the Nigerian state of Katsina in the first six months of 2025, according to Doctors Without Borders. The charity, known by its French […]
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Sat 26 July 2025: Police in South Africa are pursuing new leads in the case of a missing girl, Joshlin Smith, whose mother was sentenced to life in prison in May for kidnapping and trafficking the six-year-old girl. Search and rescue teams on Friday combed through an informal settlement in Saldanha Bay as part of […]
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Sat 26 July 2025: Senegal officials have imposed a nighttime ban on motorcycles in an eastern region after terrorists used motorbikes in recent attacks in towns just over the border in Mali. A decree published this week said the prohibition was for “security reasons”, after attackers targeted army positions in several Malian towns on July […]
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Sat 26 July 2025: A US-brokered peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda binds the two African nations to a worrying arrangement: one where a country signs away its mineral resources to a superpower in return for opaque assurances of security. The peace deal, signed in June 2025, aims to end three decades of […]
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Fri 25 July 2025: Botswana is seeking to take a controlling stake in De Beers as Anglo American prepares to divest from the diamond giant, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing the country’s mining minister. Mining Minister Bogolo Kenewendo told the Financial Times that President Duma Boko “remains resolute in his quest to increase […]
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Fri 25 July 2025: The World Food Program (WFP) has warned that its emergency food and nutrition assistance for 1.3 million people in northeastern Nigeria will come to a halt by the end of July due to severe funding shortages. “Without immediate funding, millions of vulnerable people will face impossible choices,” including severe hunger, migration, […]
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Fri 25 July 2025: Analyst claims corporate interests, not party structures, are the “star of South African politics” and will likely determine President Cyril Ramaphosa’s successor. As the African National Congress (ANC) quietly begins the chess game of who will succeed President Cyril Ramaphosa, political analyst Sandile Swana asserts that the true kingmaker will not […]
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Thu 24 July 2025: At least 27 civilians were killed and 43 others seriously wounded in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a village in Sudan’s West Kordofan state, local doctors said Thursday. In a statement, the Sudan Doctors Network said the RSF carried out a renewed assault on Brima Rashid […]
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Thu 24 July 2025: Consumer prices rise to a four-month high, driven by increasing food costs and placing further strain on household budgets ahead of the Reserve Bank’s interest rate announcement. A sudden increase in South Africa’s inflation rate has pushed the cost of living to a four-month high, creating a challenging economic environment for both consumers […]
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