Wed 08 January 2025: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says US committed to ‘holding accountable those responsible for these atrocities’. The United States has determined that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias have committed genocide in Sudan, announcing sanctions targeting the group’s leader. In a statement on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony […]
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Tue 07 January 2025: More than 350 elephants in Botswana died from toxic waterholes contaminated with cyanobacteria in 2020. Scientists now think they know why. An investigation into the sudden deaths of at least 350 elephants in Botswana in 2020 has revealed the cause was almost certainly a “toxic brew” of open water tainted by […]
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Mon 06 January 2025: European colonisation of Africa was not only about armed conquest, massacres and the exploitation of resources. It was also about the appropriation of spiritual and political symbols. It led to the erasure of a social, cultural, symbolic world. A 2024 book, Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums, […]
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Mon 06 January 2025: For more than 15 years, Nigeria’s armed forces have battled Boko Haram and groups affiliated with ISIL (ISIS), with millions affected and thousands killed. Despite government claims of “technical defeat”, rebel attacks persist, raising critical questions about strategy and accountability. General Christopher Musa, Nigeria’s chief of defence staff, talks about it […]
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Mon 06 January 2025: Thabo Bester is South Africa’s most notorious con man. In 2012, he was locked away for life for murder and rape. But when in 2022, a fire suddenly breaks out in Bester’s cell, and nothing but a charred body remains, the country’s in shock. Is that the end of Thabo Bester? […]
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Mon 06 January 2025: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, convicted twice in separate cases since leaving office, goes on trial Monday charged with accepting illegal campaign financing in an alleged pact with the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi. Sarkozy’s career has been shadowed by legal troubles since he lost the 2012 presidential election but he is an […]
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Sun 05 January 2025: The country’s public health facilities have recorded a total number of 1 448 births on the first day of the year 2025, the Department of Health announced on Thursday evening. In a statement, the department said this is a decline compared to the 1 703 deliveries recorded last year this time. […]
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Fri 03 January 2025: President Nana Akufo-Addo emphasises that visa-free policy aligns with the AU’s Agenda 2063, a 50-year blueprint aimed at realising integrated and connected Africa, building on the country’s efforts to enhance its global standing. Ghana’s outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced visa-free travel for all African passport holders from the start of […]
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Fri 03 January 2025: French troops will withdraw from Ivory Coast in January, President Alassane Ouattara said Tuesday in his end of year address to the nation. “We can be proud of our army, whose modernization is effective. It is in this context that we have decided on the concerted and organized withdrawal of French forces in Cote d’Ivoire,” […]
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Thu 02 January 2025: French troops will withdraw from Ivory Coast in January, President Alassane Ouattara said Tuesday in his end of year address to the nation. “We can be proud of our army, whose modernization is effective. It is in this context that we have decided on the concerted and organized withdrawal of French forces in Cote d’Ivoire,” […]
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